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10 best books like Fairy Tales (E.E. Cummings): Flora's Fury, The Whatnot, Brundibar, NonNonBa, Samuel Blink and the Runaway Troll, The Wrong Place, The Bear in a Muddy Tutu, The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec 1: Pterror Over Paris/The Eiffel Tower Demon, The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8, Grandville Bête Noire

Flora's Fury
AuthorYsabeau S. Wilce
Despite her troublesome attraction to magick, Flora Fyrdraaca has — more or less — spent her life doing what's been expected of her. Yet now, at sixteen, she knows that this path has been strewn with secrets. Secrets have kept her from following her passion of becoming a ranger, of perfecting her...
The Whatnot
AuthorStefan Bachmann

"Oh, the Sly King, the Sly King, in his towers of ash and wind."  

Pikey Thomas doesn’t know how or why he can see the changeling girl. But there she is. Not in the cold, muddy London neighborhood where Pikey lives. Instead, she’s walking through the trees and snow of the
enchanted...
Brundibar
AuthorTony Kushner
ISBN1844280284
This is a story based off an opera, I don’t know the opera being sourced. 2 children find their mother sick and the doctor tells them to run to town and buy milk. They have no money. They are in town and the milkman will not give them milk.

The 2 look around and see an organ grinder and monkey singing...
NonNonBa
AuthorShigeru Mizuki
ISBN1770460721
The first English translation of Mizuki's best-loved work

NonNonBa is the definitive work by acclaimed Gekiga-ka Shigeru Mizuki, a poetic memoir detailing his interest in yokai (spirit monsters). Mizuki's childhood experiences with yokai influenced the course of his life and oeuvre;...
Samuel Blink and the Runaway Troll
AuthorMatt Haig
ISBN0399247408
When Troll-Son runs away from home, he decides to leave the Shadow Forest behind and move in with his idol, Samuel Blink. Samuel isn't thrilled with the idea of hiding a runaway troll, especially one who copies everything he does, even (ugh!) using his toothbrush. But should Samuel return Troll-Son...
The Wrong Place
AuthorBrecht Evens
ISBN1770460012
Wanton youth seen through lush, dreamy, and sweeping watercolors.

Rendered in vividwatercolorwhere parquet floors and patterned dresses morph together, The Wrong Place revolves around the often absent Robbie, a charismatic lothario of mysterious celebrity who has the run of a city that...
The Bear in a Muddy Tutu
AuthorCole Alpaugh
ISBN1603818251
Lennon Bagg's daughter has been stolen away by his ex-wife, and he's just learned the newspaper he reports for is bankrupt. While on his final assignment, Bagg knocks a policeman unconscious to save the life of a runaway circus bear, and suddenly finds himself responsible for a band of stranded roustabouts...
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec 1: Pterror Over Paris/The Eiffel Tower Demon
AuthorJacques Tardi
ISBN1606993828
Both a rip-roaring adventure series set in pre-World War I Paris and a parody of the same, Adele has been enchanting, thrilling, and puzzling readers worldwide through four decades. With various American attempts to publish Adele having dribbled into nothing decades ago, Fantagraphics Books, fresh...
The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8
AuthorThomas Ott
ISBN1560978759
Swiss horror master Thomas Ott returns with the first full-length, wordless graphic novel of his career. When clearing up the cell of a prisoner who has been sentenced to death and subsequently executed, a prison guard finds a small piece of paper with a combination of numbers on it. On the spur of the...
Grandville Bête Noire
AuthorBryan Talbot
ISBN1595828907
The baffling murder of a famed Parisian artist in his locked and guarded studio takes the tenacious Detective Inspector LeBrock of Scotland Yard and his faithful adjunct, Detective Sargent Ratzi, into the cut-throat Grandville art scene to track the mysterious assassin. As the body count mounts...
How Loathsome
AuthorTed Naifeh
ISBN1561633860
The new series by the artist of Gloom Cookie and Courtney Crumrin! Do the town with gender outlaw Catherine Gore and her disreputable friends. It's Friday night and Catherine is dragged to an S&M play party to see what passes for sex these days. There, the beautiful, enigmatic fem fatale Chloe takes...
Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl
AuthorDaniel Pinkwater
ISBN0547223242
Big Audrey is a girl . . .
with cat s whiskers . . .
and sort of cat s eyes.
But, is there an other cat-whiskered, sort of cat-eyed girl?

Big Audrey waves goodbye to her friends Iggy and Neddie, Seamus, and Crazy Wig, in Los Angeles and hitches a ride with bongo-playing-while-driving...
Kimmie66
AuthorAaron Alexovich
ISBN1401203736
Written and illustrated by Aaron Alexovich Navigate the neon-lit corridors of an online VR lair in this high-velocity, dangerous quest to locate the world's first digital girl, written and illustrated by Aaron Alexovich (Serenity Rose, TV's Invader Zim and Avatar: The Last Airbender)! Telly Kade...
Britten and Brülightly
AuthorHannah Berry
ISBN0224077902
'Nowadays I don't get out of bed for less than a murder. I don't get out of bed much...Until today.'

'Private Researcher' Fernández Britten is the messenger who would view being shot as a blessing. The years spent uncovering people's secret dramas and helping to confirm their darkest suspicions...
Lola: A Ghost Story
AuthorJ. Torres
ISBN1934964336
Jesse sees dead people, monsters, demons, and lots of other things that go bump in the night that no one else can see. No one except his ailing grandmother—a woman who used her visions to help those living in her small town... the same rural community in all the scary stories Jesse's heard as a child. Man-eating...
The Best American Comics 2013
AuthorJeff Smith
ISBN0547995466
I'm always happy to see a new volume in this series. Whether one agrees that these are literally the "best" comics of the year or not, it's certainly at least an anthology of excellent work. Styles tend to skew more towards the arty, but if you don't like a particular piece, just skip to the next one. Some...
Simon's Cat: Feed Me!
AuthorSimon Tofield
ISBN0857862774
Cats are obsessed with food -- eating food, catching food, playing with food, stealing food, even napping on top of food. This collection of Simon's Cat cartoons deal with that food obsession.

I smiled the whole time I was reading this cartoon collection. I have four cats (all rescues) and have...
The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm
AuthorJacob Grimm
ISBN0374339716
Back in Print!

Originally published as a two-volume set forty years ago, The Juniper Tree is distinguished first by the selection of stories. Lore Segal and Maurice Sendak jointly culled 27 from the 210 in the complete collection, and their contents page presents a fascinating critical statement....
The Salon
AuthorNick Bertozzi
ISBN0312354851
In 1907 Paris, when someone starts tearing the heads off avant-garde painters, Gertrude Stein and her brother, Leo, realize that they might be next on the killer's list. Enlisting the help of their closest friends and colleagues, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Erik Satie, Alice B. Toklas, and Guillaume...
The New Yorker Book of Cat Cartoons
AuthorThe New Yorker
ISBN0394587952
Although I love cats and their crazy quirks some of these comics made me wonder are these really cat people who drew these comics or are they really dog people who just don't understand the fuzzy minds of our cattish friends? There were a few spots where the comics hit the nail on the head but more or less I...
My Brother's Book
AuthorMaurice Sendak
ISBN0062234897
Fifty years after Where the Wild Things Are was published comes the last book Maurice Sendak completed before his death in May 2012, My Brother's Book. With influences from Shakespeare and William Blake, Sendak pays homage to his late brother, Jack, whom he credited for his passion for writing and drawing....
Is That All There Is?
AuthorJoost Swarte
ISBN1606995103
By appropriating and subverting Tintin creator Herge s classic clear line style, Joost Swarte revitalized European alternative comics in the 1970s with a series of satirical, musically elegant, supremely beautifully drawn short stories often featuring his innocent, magnificently-quiffed...
Curses! Foiled Again
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN1596436190
I enjoy this series. Sadly, Jane said in a fan question that First Second did not want to do another book, so Jane is not going to finish this series. The first book was better, but I enjoy this sword or weapon welding girl. I like how this ties into the other world of fairies. Baba Yaga shows up and her tea cup,...
Wild Among Us: True Adventures of a Female Wildlife Photographer Who Stalks Bears, Wolves, Mountain Lions, Wild Horses and Other Elusive Wildlife
AuthorPat Toth-Smith
ISBN0989251330
2014 USA Best Book Award for narrative non-fiction and bronze medal winner eLit Awards, 2013 gold medal winner Living Now Awards, March 2014 #1 book of the month Stevo's internet reviews, June 2013 book of the month Pacific book review. "My book helps people to face their fears and do things they never...
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