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Winner of the grand prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival!Winner of the grand prize at the Angoulême International Comics FestivalTexas Library Association's Little Maverick Reading List
Kathleen Karr's classic
American story of grit, friendship, and turkeys--finally reimagined as a
sensational graphic novel.
Missouri 1860: Simon Green is a bad student. His mother is dead
and his father has disappeared. But he's daring, and so when he hears that
turkeys fetch a higher price in Denver, he borrows his teacher's life savings and buys a herd of a thousand birds. Then he sets off on the thousand-mile trek with his dog and a
pair of mules. To survive the odyssey that follows, Simon will need grit, luck
and smarts--and a colorful cast of friends.
Kathleen Karr's beloved middle-grade novel of a resourceful boy and his herd of a thousand turkeys has enchanted readers everywhere since it was first published in 1998. Now it will reach a whole new audience in Léonie Bischoff's enchanting graphic novel, finally available in English. The adaptation has already garnered two of the world's most prestigious graphic novel awards: the grand prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival as well as the ACBD (French Comic Book Critics Association's Award).