Watercolor illustrations aid in describing the twenty-three months that Kate T. Williamson spent living with her parents in Pennsylvania after she graduated from Harvard and spent a year in Japan.
Uses a comic strip format to present a rabbi, his daughter, and their cat who accidentally eats the family parrot and begins speaking. But the cat tells them nothing but lies and the rabbi begins to teach him the Torah while maintaining that cats can't be Jewish.
Early in the winter of 1634, a young Dutch trader set out with his friends from a distant outpost of the tiny Dutch colony on the southern tip of Manhattan Island, seeking to establish new friendships with the surrounding tribes that would strengthen the faltering Dutch fur trade.
Presents a collection of Doonesbury cartoons that takes a satirical look at the California recall, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the liberation of Iraq.
This book, in graphic novel format, describes the life of Alexander Hamilton, who was a Revolutionary War leader and the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
Graphic novel based on the Gaston Leroux classic, in which a disfigured musical genius, living under the Paris Opera House, uses music to win the love of a beautiful opera singer.
Tells the story of the Great Chicago Fire in graphic novel format, describing how a barn blaze grew into an inferno that killed hundreds of people and destroyed several square miles of property.
Presents a short history of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859, written in graphic novel format, and focuses on his attempt to win emancipation of all slaves by capturing the federal arsenal located there.
A graphic novel account of the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, based on the experiences of the author who was six-years-old at the time of the attack. Covers events leading up to and immediately following the bombing.
