Francoise Mouly (founder of Raw Books & Graphics) and Art Spiegelman (author of Maus) are launching a new line of children’s comics called TOON books. The husband and wife team have published books of comics for kids by well-known children’s authors and illustrators in the Little Lit series. Ms. Mouly states that TOON books are the books she wishes had been available when our kids were in the first grade. When her children’s teacher started assigning “easy readers” for them the joy went out of reading for the whole family. She shared French comics and Art sacrificed a valuable collection of old comics to fatherhood. She realized how few good children’s comics were being published in the U.S. and decided that this was where she wanted to turn her attention.
The first three books of this series are coming out this spring and are on order for Sno-Isle libraries:
Benny and Penny: Just Pretend by Geoffrey Hayes
Silly Lilly and the Four Seasonsby Agnes Rosenstiehl
Otto’s Orange Day by Jay Lynch
