![]() ![]() The 80-page hardcover is due out in bookstores on Tuesday, April 18th. ![]() He lives and works in the Shenandoah Valley with his wife and their boisterous pack of daughters. Hatke won an Eisner Award in 2016 in the Best Publication for Early Readers category for his all-ages graphic novel Little Robot.Ĭheck out the exclusive excerpt of Reynard’s Tale, featuring five pages of prose and five illustrations, below. Ben Hatke is the author and illustrator of the New York Timesbestselling Zita the Spacegirl trilogy, the picture books Julia's House for Lost Creatures and Nobody Likes a Goblin, and the graphic novels Little Robot and Mighty Jack. ![]() Although this Reynard adventure is entirely the creation of modern fairytale master Ben Hatke (Mighty Jack), it fits seamlessly into the body of Reynard tales still beloved in Europe to this day.įeaturing evocative, charming black-and-white illustrations and a swiftly moving narrative, Reynard’s Tale follows our hero through a series of encounters with other classic figures from this body of folklore to piece together a headlong journey through a perilous landscape filled with murderers, kings, ex-lovers, mermaids, and even Death herself.Ĭartoonist Ben Hatke is best known for the Zita the Spacegirl series of graphic novels, and for the Mighty Jack series, all of which are published by First Second. Inspired by the 12th century tales of the indomitable trickster fox Reynard, this offbeat tribute to the archetypal rogue has a satisfyingly old-fashioned feeling to it. ![]()
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