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Quaintly illustrated, but with plenty of modern childhood trauma, The Spiderwick Chronicles (Simon & Schuster) are aimed at kids too young for Lemony. Authors Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi even make like Snicket creator Daniel Handler on book tours, playing coy about authorship. Sales magic seems to be afoot, at least; The Field Guide and The Seeing Stone, the first two volumes of the Chronicles, hit the New York Times children's best-seller list the week of their release...
...bite into paper trails like a dog attacking a steak. This attention to detail, plus a vast canvas of characters, makes for a dense boulder of a story that moves creakily for the first couple of hours. But once it gets rolling, it's irresistible because of the humanity creator-writer David Simon finds in his characters, from cops who risk their careers if they seek out tough cases (because those cases raise the unsolved-murder rate) to down-and-out union workers taking payoffs to let contraband (or worse) slip by customs...
...together in the unusually female form of Mrs. Islam. As a result, it is almost impossible to feel for these people when they are beset by their many, mostly minor, tragedies. It's hard even to feel sorry for poor Hasina when she gets so little sympathy from her creator: Ali leaves her story unexplained and incomplete. Hasina, too, is a stereotype, the innocent rustic who goes to the city to find love and happiness but is exploited and degraded by rapacious urban men. And since it follows that clichés can only talk in clich...
...their junior year, the Harvard campus prepared to welcome Walt Kelly, the creator of the popular comic strip “Pogo,” which was set in a world populated by animal characters but incorporated some political themes...
...national election year in 1952, and Pogo the possum, the strip’s central character, was contemplating a run for president. Harvard students planned to greet Pogo’s creator in full force, staging a “Pogo for President” rally in Harvard Square, complete with buttons and posters made by School of Design students...