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Also see: Mom Draws Powerful Cartoon in Response to Cincinnati Zoo Incident, by Caroline Bologna, The Huffington Post.
[BOOKS: Starling, On the Loose in Boston, On the Loose in Washington, DC, and On the Loose in Philadelphia]
The first time Sage Stossel sat down to pen We’re Off to Harvard Square, she gave up. Stossel wanted to write and illustrate a children’s book, and figured the easiest way to go about doing so was to…
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[BOOKS: Starling, On the Loose in Boston, On the Loose in Washington, DC, On the Loose in Philadelphia, and We’re Off to Harvard Square.]
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Cartoonist Sage Stossel created her “Find-the Animals” bestseller On the Loose in Boston in 2009, in which animals from Franklin Park Zoo escape and show up in settings from Fenway Park to Faneuil Hall. She followed it with On the Loose in Washington, D.C. in 2013, when the National Zoo’s animals got the same idea, and cavorted around our nation’s capital from the White House to Capitol Hill. Next stop? The City of Brotherly Love! Children will have hours of entertainment finding the Philadelphia Zoo animals in On the Loose in Philadelphia—whether a monkey at Independence Hall, a kangaroo at the art museum, or a hippopotamus at a Phillies game! Over 100 animals are hiding cleverly in favorite Philadelphia locations in this colorfully-illustrated rhyming picture book.
Recommended by Mommy Nearest Philadelphia as one of 10 Books All Philly Kids Should Have on Their Shelves.
[Click here to buy the book.]
Also visit the On the Loose in Philadelphia web site for Philadelphia pictures to print and color, ideas for things to do with kids in Philadelphia, and more.
(Also see On the Loose in Boston and On the Loose in Washington, DC, or the graphic novel Starling.)
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Or click here to see “Life As A New Mom, Summed Up In A Cartoon” at Huffington Post Parents.
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“If Jane Austen had written this—and in an alternative universe, she could have—it might be called ‘Capes and Coffeebreaks’… The delightfully complicated and cannily crafted plot interweaves Amy’s romantic uncertainties with her super-heroic adventures… This whimsical romantic comedy injects welcome humor into the superhero genre… and will probably appeal more broadly to fans of Dilbert, too.” —Library Journal
Why Superheroes Still Can’t Have it All (Atlantic interview with Sage Stossel).
The Anti-Heroine (Harvard Magazine May-June 2014). “Starling†can handle thugs and palookas, but not daily life. By Craig Lambert
“A book straight out of the age of ‘New Girl,’ ‘Sex in the City,’ and ‘The United States of Tara,’ in which we are drawn to watch a female protagonist for her flaws or peculiarities, not in spite of them… [Starling] pokes intently at the glass ceiling that hangs, weirdly enough, over comics as well as other parts of our culture.” —The Boston Globe
“A winning story about overcoming adversity, finding oneself and even having a shot at achieving true love, all lovingly ladled out in a savvy, self-deprecating, droll, artfully humorous manner…”
—UK Comics Review
“The sweetest book about trying to make life work, which all of us have trouble with. Even though we can’t generate electricity with our hands like Amy does.”
—“7 Outstanding Comics About Being a Hero,” Planet Jinxatron (Other comics selected in this review include Strong Female Protagonist by Brennan Lee Mulligan and Molly Ostertag, Red Sonja: The Art of Blood and Fire by Gail Simone, The Shadow Hero by Gene Luen Yang)
“Humorous and touching… Three pages into the graphic novel and I was already hooked by Stossel’s heroine.” —The Retroist
“Hilarious and uplifting… Stossel’s soft washes of color and zippy dialogue make Starling more than just a superhero comic. Amy’s juggling of her family, personal and work lives echoes every modern woman’s struggle to have it all without letting anyone down.”
—Jaclyn Fulwood, Shelf Awareness (Starred review)
“Starling is an imaginative superhero with a unique take on the world… The situations she gets into only make you love her more.” —Games Fiends
“A fun read and a good bet for fans of Sex and the City and any young women in need of a superhero like themselves.” —Bookbitch.com
“I loved it… Reminds me of James Robinson’s masterpiece, Starman, about a reluctant hero taking on the job after his father retires and his brother is killed.” —Gene Ambaum, Unshelved
“A funny, intelligent and engaging superhero story … Utterly charming. Warmly recommended.” —Sembtext: Göran Semb
Interview with Sage Stossel at the Graphic Novel Reporter.
LA Times interview with Sage Stossel.
LitReactor: Ten Questions with Starling author Sage Stossel by Leah Rhyne.
Newsarama: STARLING: Sibling Creators & Their Anxiety-Filled Superheroine by Zack Smith.
Four Questions with Sage Stossel by Molly Parr.
“Hilarious… A realistic, relatable female superhero.”—Feminist Texican Reads
“Stossel’s plotting is excellent as she slips in necessary items on several occasions without the reader considering them anything other than incidental details, and the way Starling’s messing up her own life while attempting to help others proves a compulsive guarantee of the pages turning. The constant tension from the halfway point is excellently sustained because Stossel has by then established Amy as an essentially likable woman who makes the occasional error of judgement.” —Ian Keogh, Slings and Arrows
“Funny and lighthearted … a good read.” —Rambles.net
“A superhero comic for people who don’t read superhero comics … Rated teen and up, but it’s a good pick for adults, too.” —Geek Dad
“A terrific choice for readers searching for a low-key superhero comic and for DC fans (and Marvel fans) fed up with how their favorite superheroines have been treated.” —In Bed With Books
Comics Juice, Celebrating the Golden Age of Graphic Novels: Great Graphic Novels, Superheroes category
“Utterly engaging and entertaining…a fantastic book.” —Bookshots
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Intuition
by Allegra Goodman
The Peabody Sisters
by Megan Marshall
The Emperor’s Children
by Claire Messud
Liars and Saints
by Maile Meloy
The Whole World Over
by Julia Glass
Something Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America
by Laura Shapiro
Imperial Reckoning
by Caroline Elkins
[Also see Atlantic Interview with Caroline Elkins]
On Beauty
by Zadie Smith
The News from Paraguay
by Lily Tuck
A Changed Man
by Francine Prose
The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus
by Margaret Atwood
Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families
by Leslie Morgan Steiner
Dispatches from a Not-so-Perfect Life
by Faulkner Fox
My Father Is a Book
by Janna Malamund Smith
A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation
by Catherine Allgor
The Hazards of Good Breeding
by Jessica Shattuck
Tolstoy Lied
by Rachel Kadish
The Secret Daughter
by June Cross
A World Apart: Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars
by Cristina Rathbone
The Tequila Worm
by Viola Canales
Necessary Dreams: Ambition in Women’s Changing Lives
by Anna Fels
This Side of Married
by Rachel Pastan
I Had Brain Surgery, What’s Your Excuse?
by Suzy Becker
No Hair Day
by Elsa Dorfman
Inheritance
by Lan Samantha Chang
Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths
by Mary Lefkowitz
Making an Exit
by Elinor Fuchs
Quirky Kids
by Perri Klass and Eileen Costello
The Unsayable
by Annie G. Rogers
Pearl
by Mary Gordon
Truth, Torture and the American Way
by Jennifer K. Harbury
North of Ithaka
by Eleni N. Gage
Mistress Bradstreet
by Charlotte Gordon
The Other Insect Societies
by James T. Costa
Once Removed
by Mako Yoshikawa
Also, at The Atlantic.com…
The Best Book I Read This Year: Adam Goodheart’s 1861
Also see:
* Atlantic interviews by Sage Stossel
* More Atlantic and Atlantic.com writings by Sage Stossel
Facebook Groups: World Leaders
Hugo Chávez and Hu Jintao are now friends.
Understanding Afghanistan
Perspective on a nation in conflict
The Craft and Craftiness of Henry Kissinger
Articles by Seymour Hersh, Robert D. Kaplan, and others assess Kissinger’s career and legacy.
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Islam
Can democracy take root in a predominantly Islamic part of the world?
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Americans today are finding new inspiration in Julia Ward Howe’s anthem—originally published in The Atlantic in 1862 to rally Union troops.
Also see:
* Atlantic interviews by Sage Stossel
* Radcliffe Quarterly Book Reviews by Sage Stossel