The Great Antonio
By Elise Gravel
By Elise Gravel
By Elise Gravel
By Elise Gravel
Category: Children's Graphic Novels
Category: Children's Books
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$7.99
Jan 21, 2025 | ISBN 9781662665554 | 4-8 years
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$12.99
Oct 11, 2016 | ISBN 9781943145089 | 4-8 years
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Praise
Elizabeth Bird’s A Fuse #8 Production 2016 Fictionalized Non-Fiction for Kids
TD Summer Reading Club’s Top Recommend Reads for 2017
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
* “A tribute as heartfelt as it is joyous” — Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
“Gravel gives us a funny, very kid-friendly story about a gentle giant, someone who twirled children around on his braids, turning himself into a human merry-go-round for their amusement.” — School Library Journal Good Comics for Kids
“What’s to be made of lives that don’t go the way they were supposed to? Gravel shows that they’re worth paying attention to.” — Publishers Weekly
“Kids will be taken by this larger-than-life figure, who is still beloved in Montreal, the city the Great Antonio called home.”— Booklist
“Gravel’s cartoonish art is graphically sophisticated.” — Montreal Gazette
“In this innovative portrait―not quite a biography yet not quite a legend―Gravel affectionately places Antonio in the Paul Bunyan tradition of mighty men.” — Horn Book Magazine
“A modern tale for a new audience.” – Mom Read It
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