Motherlode on the New York Times!
One Peace Manga Classic Readers
Not to be confused with the wildly popular One Piece manga, these titles, including ¡ÈDon Quixote¡É and ¡ÈThe War of the Worlds¡É are translations of Japanese adaptations. The editor Robert McGuire thinks of them as gateway drugs. Barreling through Moby-Dick, my son was struck by Mr. Stubbs's explanation to Ishmael, ¡ÈYou don't laugh ¡Æcuz it's fun to! Things are fun because you're laughing.¡É If Melville isn't spinning in the grave yet, wait until he hears Milo's verdict that ¡Èit doesn't need to be as long as the real Moby- Dick is because a picture says 1,000 words.¡É Tis the price of lasting celebrity in the age of PlayStation and YouTube.
-Motherlode; New York Times
Read the full article here:
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/16/home-schooling-comic-con-style-part-1/