Recently a coworker asked us to send some of our favorite Banned and Challenged book titles and a little snippet about it and/or why we love it. I emailed her back and said did she want them alphabetically, order of importance or just my favorite? How did I approach it? I thought, send a few favorite author(s), but that was too many. Just every book I read that has been B-and/or-C? Way too many to do. Therefore I said “Make it simple.” And found a […]
I want to tell your story, the way it really happened.
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
Maus II : And Here My Troubles Began, Maus. A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman
CBR15 BINGO (Picture This square: Maus I, Graphic novel) BINGO! – Strange World to Picture This CBR15 BINGO (History square: Maus II, Holocaust, Auschwitz) BINGO! – South America to History BINGO! – History to Europe I have to confess the only time that I read graphic novels is once a year for a bingo square. I was never a big comics person and I tend to equate the two (don’t come for me, I know that they aren’t necessarily the same) but do enjoy the ones that I have read. Not sure what is […]
Never Forget
Maus A Survivor’s Tale Vol. I: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
Maus A Survivor’s Tale Vol II: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman
Cbr15bingo history Maus is a highly acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winning (1992) 2-volume graphic novel that made the news last year as the subject of a book banning in Tennessee (for bad words and a naked female mouse. Really.) Maus is about the Holocaust. Writer/illustrator Art Spiegelman interviewed his own father about what happened to him and their family in Poland during WWII. The Spiegelman family, like so many other Jewish families, was practically wiped out due to Nazi Germany’s extermination camps. In writing about this, […]
Mice and Men
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
This book is gripping, devastating, and emotional. It’s also incredibly popular, as it is a Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel. It’s also the subject of book bans, which in turn brought it back to the top of many a library queue (because book people are the best people). It’s a true story, as told from memory and tape recorded conversations between the author and his father, a survivor of Auschwitz. As a child, I was really interested in literature about the Holocaust, which I can […]
Maus I and Maus II-Breathtaking
Maus I by Art Spiegelman
Maus II by Art Spiegelman
Maus I- I am sure better people than me have written a review about Maus I. And I honestly have to say that the art/panels/writing is wonderful. I read Maus I and Maus II together and both graphic novels tell you the story of Art Spiegelman’s father. Mostly it focuses on Mr. Spiegelman’s love/frustration for him and his mother. Maus I shows us Art Spiegelman and how he came to sit and write/record the story of his father and his time in Auschwitz. We also […]
I’m probably one of the last people to read Maus
The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman
I CANNOT BELIVE I TOOK THIS LONG TO FIND THIS BOOK! For mature readers only. When I first learned of the graphic novel MAUS, I figured it was another Holocaust story where Jewish peoples were either forced into internment camps or were hiding from the Nazis. In other words, “Been there, read that.” But MAUS by Art Spiegelman is so much more than “just” a Holocaust story. It is a life story. It is a human story. It is a son’s story. It is a […]