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by Kathleen Karr (Author), L?onie Bischoff (Illustrator), Michelle Bailat-Jones (Translator)
Winner of the grand prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival!Kathleen Karr's classicAmerican 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).
Author Biography
Kathleen Karr was born in Allentown,
Pennsylvania, and grew up on a chicken farm in Dorothy, New Jersey.
After escaping to college, she worked in the film industry, and also
taught in high school and college. She seriously began writing fiction
on a dare from her husband. After honing her skills in women's fiction,
her children asked her to write a book for them (It Ain't Always Easy), and she discovered she loved writing
for young readers. She is the author of more than twenty novels for
young readers. Her book The Boxer, won the Golden Kite award. She died
in 2017.
After graduating in comics from the
Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels, Léonie Bischoff became a bookseller and
then an editor. She is the author of a graphic novel about the diarist
Anaïs Nin. Her adaptation of Kathleen Karr's The Great Turkey Walk is
her first book for children. Born in Geneva, Switzerland, Léonie
currently lives in Belgium.
Michelle Bailat-Jones is a translator and novelist living in
Switzerland. She has translated several short stories as well as two
novels by C. F. Ramuz, Beauty on Earth and What if the Sun...?
Her other translations include work by Clarisse Francillon, Claude
Cahun, Julia Allard Daudet, Laure Mi-Hyun Croset, and Céline Cerny.
