The Great Turkey Walk: A Graphic Novel Adaptation of the Classic Story of a Boy, His Dog and a Thousand...

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Kathleen Karr Leonie Bischoff

The Great Turkey Walk

A Graphic Novel Adaptation of the Classic Story of a Boy, His Dog and a Thousand Turkeys

Kathleen Karr, Leonie Bischoff, Michelle Bailat-Jones

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Helvetiq
15 January 2025

Adventure; Historical fiction; Graphic novels; Graphic novels: literary & memoirs; Classic fiction (Children's&YA)

Winner of the grand prize at theAngouleme International Comics Festival!

Winner of the grand prize at the Angouleme International Comics Festival

Texas Library Association's Little Maverick Reading List

Kathleen Karr's classicAmerican story of grit, friendship, and turkeys-finally reimagined as asensational graphic novel.

Missouri 1860:

Simon Green is a bad student. His mother is deadand his father has disappeared. But he's daring, and so when he hears thatturkeys fetch a higher price in Denver, he borrows his teacher's life savings and buys a herd of a thousand birds. Then he sets off on the thousand-mile trek with his dog and apair of mules. To survive the odyssey that follows, Simon will need grit, luckand smarts-and a colorful cast of friends.

Kathleen Karr's belovedmiddle-grade novel of a resourceful boy and his herd of a thousand turkeys has enchanted readers everywhere since it was first published in 1998. Now it will reach a whole new audience in Leonie Bischoff's enchanting graphic novel, finally available in English. The adaptation has already garnered two of the world's most prestigious graphic novel awards: the grand prize at theAngouleme International Comics Festival as well astheACBD(French Comic Book Critics Association's Award).

By: Kathleen Karr
Illustrated by: Leonie Bischoff
Translated by: Michelle Bailat-Jones
Imprint: Helvetiq
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 215mm,
ISBN: 9783039640638
ISBN 10: 3039640631
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 15 January 2025
Recommended Age: From 8 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kathleen Karr was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and grew up on a chicken farm in Dorothy, New Jersey. After escaping to college, she worked in the film industry, and also taught in high school and college. She seriously began writing fiction on a dare from her husband. After honing her skills in women's fiction, her children asked her to write a book for them (It Ain't Always Easy), and she discovered she loved writing for young readers. She is the author of more than twenty novels for young readers. Her book The Boxer, won the Golden Kite award. She died in 2017. After graduating in comics from the Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels, Leonie Bischoff became a bookseller and then an editor. She is the author of a graphic novel about the diarist Anas Nin. Her adaptation of Kathleen Karr's The Great Turkey Walk is her first book for children. Born in Geneva, Switzerland, Leonie currently lives in Belgium. Michelle Bailat-Jones is a translator and novelist living in Switzerland. She has translated several short stories as well as two novels by C. F. Ramuz, Beauty on Earth and What if the Sun...? Her other translations include work by Clarisse Francillon, Claude Cahun, Julia Allard Daudet, Laure Mi-Hyun Croset, and Celine Cerny.

Reviews for The Great Turkey Walk: A Graphic Novel Adaptation of the Classic Story of a Boy, His Dog and a Thousand Turkeys

""A good addition to any children’s graphic novel collection."" ―School Library Journal ""A terrific adaptation of a terrific Old West yarn."" ―Kirkus Reviews Praise for the original The Great Turkey Walk by Kathleen Karr: “Readers will gobble up Karr's hilarious novel of a boy who resolves to walk 1000 turkeys from the Show-Me state to Denver, Colorado. Simon, who's 15 and newly graduated from the thrid grade, may not be too bright, but he figures he can make his fortune by buying Mr. Buffey's brinze turkeys for a quarter apiece and selling them in Denver for $5 each...The gifted Karr has a cheerful, sassy down-home writing style and a perfect pitch for dialogue.” ―Starred, Publishers Weekly “Full of good humor and page-turning quest-style events...This novel begs to be read aloud.” ―Starred, School Library Journal “A wide-open western epic, inspired by actual drives and featuring a cast of capable young people.” ―Kirkus Reviews