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Nursery Rhyme Comics

50 Timeless Rhymes from 50 Celebrated Cartoonists

9781596436008

First Second
Available: 10/11/11
7.93 x 10.33 · 128 pages
Ages 3-8 years
9781596436008
CDN $30.99 · cl
With dust jacket

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Various Authors

edited by Chris Duffy

introduction by Leonard S. Marcus

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

First Second is very proud to present Nursery Rhyme Comics . Featuring fifty classic nursery rhymes illustrated and interpreted in comics form by fifty of today's preeminent cartoonists and illustrators, this is a groundbreaking new entry in the canon of nursery rhymes treasuries.

From New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast's There Was a Crooked Man" to Bad Kitty author Nick Bruel's "Three Little Kittens" to First Second's own Gene Yang's "Pat-a-Cake," this is a collection that will put a grin on your face from page one and keep it there.

Each rhyme is one to three pages long, and simply paneled and lettered to ensure that the experience is completely accessible for the youngest of readers. Chock full of engaging full-color artwork and favorite characters (Jack and Jill! Old Mother Hubbard! The Owl and the Pussycat!), this collection will be treasured by children for years to come.
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. . . Chris Duffy has written many comic books, for Marvel and DC Comics, and has edited comics and graphic novels for Nickelodeon Magazine, United Plankton Pictures, DC Comics, and First Second, where he edited the New York Times bestseller Fairy Tale Comics. He currently is a senior editor at Workman Publishing, and lives in Cold Spring, New York, where he has seen a number of horses, but hasn't managed to ride one yet. Leonard S. Marcus is one of the world's leading writers about children's books and the people who create them. His own award-winning books include Randolph Caldecott: The Man Who Could Not Stop Drawing ; Listening for Madeleine: A Portrait of Madeleine L'Engle in Many Voices ; Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom ; Minders of Make Believe ; The Annotated Phantom Tollbooth ; Mr. Lincoln Sits for His Portrait: The Story of a Photograph That Became an American Icon ; and Earthrise: The Story of a Photograph That Changed the Way We See Our Planet . He lives in Brooklyn, New York.