There I was at this once-a-year shindig with my kidlit pals, sitting at a table with my nose in a book. In the hands of some of the finest illustrators in the business-people like Gene Luen Yang, Raina Telgemeier, David Macauley, Dave Roman, and living legend Jules Feiffer, for Pete's sake!-the familiar rhymes take on a dynamic new life. Each poem is its own little one- or two-page comic strip. He got an incredible assortment of artists-including every member of the awesome Teen Comics Workshop I attended at SDCC-to contribute drawings to this gorgeous hardcover collection of Mother Goose rhymes. For me, it was love at first page-turn.Ĭomics creator and editor Chris Duffy was the guiding hand behind this absolute gem of a book. Several of its contributors attended a gathering for children's book writers and artists I'd helped organize, and they had a hot-off-the-presses advance copy of the book to pass around. I got my first glimpse of First Second's new Nursery Rhyme Comics at Comic-Con this summer.
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