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...Little Lit " (Raw Junior, LLC; 64pp; $19.95) follows the principles of last year's best-selling "Little Lit: Folklore and Fairy Tale Funnies." Contributors include members of the comix "underground" as well as children's book illustrators and adult authors with no experience in the comicbook medium. These smartly-written, sumptuously colored comix then get published as a large-size hardcover collection so that even adults feel little when they turn the pages. Kids may like the fact that the hardcover makes it easier to draw on the pages...
...From Maurice Sendak's "Cereal Baby Keller" in "Little Lit...
...Almost an activity book as well, "Little Lit" volume two contains find-the-object pages by the likes of Martin Handford ("Where's Waldo") and Richard McGuire. My favorite is Louis Trondheim's "A-Maze-ing Adventure," about a little guy who gets lost. The panels are arranged like a maze, not only presenting the story as a reflection of its contents, but also, by choosing different paths, creating different narratives. Hey kids, comix theory...
...Thanks to the intelligence of editors Spiegelman and Mouly you can't be too old to appreciate "Little Lit: Strange Stories for Strange Kids." The question is how young is too young? While some of the material will be over the heads of pre-literate children, comix have a language and syntax of images that can be absorbed at a very young age. You couldn't choose a better kind of "My-First-Comix" than this...
...Little Lit: Strange Stories for Strange Kids" can be found at better comicbooks stores, and all major bookstores both real and virtual...