If Gorey and Sendak Had Illustrated Kafka for Kids

Sylvia Plath believed it was never too early to dip children's toes in the vast body of literature. But to plunge straight into Kafka? Why not, which is precisely what Brooklyn-based writer and videogame designer Matthue Roth has done in My First Kafka: Runaways, Rodents, and Giant Bugs (public library) ¡½ a magnificent adaptation of Kafka for kids. With stunning black-and-white illustrations by London-based fine artist Rohan Daniel Eason, this gem falls ¡½ rises, rather ¡½ somewhere between Edward Gorey, Maurice Sendak, and the Graphic Canon series.

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