First Year Healthy Julia Kaye ALA Notable Children’s Book

ALA Notable Children’s Book

“Funny and vibrant

and one of the finest printed publications around

Copycat discovers that to find his place in the world and be loved

"Editor Eric Reynolds has assembled a group of cartoonists who are fiercely confident in their unique approaches to comic book storytelling

First Year Healthy Julia Kaye ALA Notable Children’s BookBy Michael DeForge. Published by Drawn & Quarterly. Hardcover, 40 pages, Colour, 2015. A mysterious, unsettling parable from one of North America's most popular cartoonists First Year Healthy purports to be the story of a young woman, recently released from the hospital after an outburst, and her burgeoning relationship with an odd, perhaps criminal Turkish immigrant. In a scant forty five pages, working with a vibrant, otherworldly palette of