Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Author, Marcia Williams, Author, Marcia Williams, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56402-174-8
As in Williams's Greek Myths for Young Children and Joseph and His Magnificent Coat of Many Colors , engagingly busy, ornately bordered, comic strip-style artwork gives new and buoyant life to a familiar story. The characteristic understatement of...
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Marcia Williams, Author Random House Books for Young Readers $4.95 (26p) ISBN 978-0-394-80434-7
Very modern, cheery illustrations accompany this fairly standard telling of the Nativity. Williams has divided each page into three or four bordered panels with festive symbols of the season interspersed with motifs from the text. In closing,...
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Marcia Williams, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $12.95 (26p) ISBN 978-0-517-58155-1
What do kids worry about? Don't worry--Williams ( The First Christmas ) knows. Her imaginative text and splendidly cluttered, boldly colored illustrations expose a number of worries that might plague youngsters. ``I worry that when I wake up . . ....
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Marcia Williams, Author, Marcia Williams, Retold by, Marcia Williams, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $7.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0644-2
Using comic-strip format and leavening myth with colloquial humor, Williams ""gives Homer's epic chronicles of warring gods, mortals and monsters a rollicking new incarnation,"" said PW. Ages 5-up. (Aug.)
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Marcia Williams. Candlewick, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-5362-0111-6
The prolific Williams celebrates lauded historical women in her latest comic strip-style book. Sixteen luminaries—including Mae Jemison, Wangari Maathai, and Mary Wollstonecraft—receive dedicated strips, while pages at the back gather women “leaders
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Marcia Williams. Candlewick, $17.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-7636-7476-2
Williams’s sweet-tempered pen-and-ink drawings take some of the sting out of the misery of Hugo’s original—but not much. Jean Valjean’s seesaw journey between sin and redemption personifies the misery of Second Empire France. At times, Williams’s...
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Marcia Williams. Candlewick, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5916-5
Williams turns to the classic stories of India in this companion to Ancient Egypt: Tales of Gods and Pharaohs (2011), with which it shares a comic book–style aesthetic. Food emerges as a frequent theme in eight stories of haves vs. have-nots and eat-
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Marcia Williams, Author, Marcia Williams, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1905-3
With her usual engaging approach, Marcia Williams tackles the works of Charles Dickens (as she has Homer, Shakespeare and others in the past) in Charles Dickens and Friends. A handful of Victorian classics-Oliver Twist; Great Expectations; A Tale
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Marcia Williams, Author, Marcia Williams, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0791-3
As in her earlier works, Williams's (The Iliad and the Odyssey; Greek Myths for Young Children) comic-strip style pictures--riddled with silly asides and puns--put a playful spin on myth, making potentially unwieldy material accessible. Captions...
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Marcia Williams, Author, Marcia Williams, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $7.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0152-2
PW praised this adaptation's ""wacky, detailed panel art, featuring irreverent commentary and more than a few offhand remarks."" Ages 7-up. (June)
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Marcia Williams, Author, Marcia Williams, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0053-2
In her signature comic-strip style, Williams (The Adventures of Robin Hood; Don Quixote) gives Homer's epic chronicles of warring gods, mortals and monsters a rollicking new incarnation. Considering these works' labyrinthine episodes and their...
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Marcia Williams, Author, Marcia Williams, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56402-802-0
Though the text is a straightforward abridged retelling, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Marcia Williams stands out for its wacky, detailed panel art, featuring irreverent commentary and more than a few offhand remarks from some...
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Marcia Williams, Author, Marcia Williams, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56402-535-7
Don Quixote, Sinbad the Sailor and Joseph (with his coat of many colors) have all been give in exuberant new incarnations at the hands of the talented Williams, who here makes Robin Hood and his band merry indeed as she translates their feats into...
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Marcia Williams, Author, Marcia Williams, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-56402-310-0
Williams ( Greek Myths for Young Children ; Don Quixote ) once again dips playfully into the mythical past, here recreating--with wit and kid-pleasing visuals--the travels and travails of the entertainingly eccentric Sinbad. Her signature comic-strip
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Marcia Williams, Author, Marcia Williams, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56402-019-2
Williams's exhilarating art, an uncommon blend of the primitive and the refined, illuminates the biblical story of favorite son Joseph, whose father gives him a glorious coat--here artfully embellished with rows of rabbits, fish, stars and circles....
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Marcia Williams, Author, Marcia Williams, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-56402-115-1
Featuring vibrant colors, detailed borders and comic-strip panels spilling over with farcical antics and asides, Williams's watercolor and pen-and-ink artwork is reminiscent of her illustrations for Joseph and His Magnificent Coat of Many Colors ....
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Marcia Williams, Author, Belle Yang, Author, Marcia Williams, Illustrator . Candlewick $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3532-9
Williams (Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
) inventively expands on her signature comic-strip style in this oversize, paper-over-board work, ostensibly a scrapbook made by a 10-year-old Londoner between May 1914 and November 1918. With Archie’s
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