Little Vampire

Format:

Book

Title:

Little Vampire

Author:

Sfar, Joann.

ISBN:

9781596432338

Edition:

1st American ed.

Publication Information:

New York : First Second, 2008.

Physical Description:

92 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Series title(s):

Little Vampire.

General Note:

Originally published in France separately under the title Petit Vampire va à l'école, Petit Vampire fait du Kung-Fu!, and Petit Vampire et la société protectrice des chiens by Guy Delcourt Productions, Paris.

Contents:

Little Vampire goes to school -- Little Vampire does Kung fu -- Little Vampire and the canine defenders club.

Summary:

An unusual friendship forms between a vampire and a human, when Little Vampire leaves notes on homework Michael has left at school.

Subject(s):

Vampires -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Schools -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Kung fu -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Dogs -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Friendship -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Adventure and adventurers -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Friendship -- Fiction.

Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction.

Graphic novels.

Genre:

Children's stories, French.

Action and adventure fiction

Comics (Graphic works)

Graphic novels

Adventure fiction.

Graphic novels.

Action and adventure fiction.

Graphic novels -- Juvenile.

Added Author:

Siegel, Alexis

Gauvin, Edward

Holds:

Available:*

Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Monmouth Public Library	J GN Sfar, J. 2008	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

Living in a house filled with grown-up ghouls and monsters, Little Vampire is so lonely that he's even willing to go to school if that's what it takes to find friends. Unfortunately, school seems to be filled with children who are still alive. . . .

Little Vampire finds friendship with a boy named Michael, and they embark on adventures in the three stories in this collection. Included in this book are Little Vampire Goes to School (a New York Times Bestseller), Little Vampire Does Kung Fu , and Little Vampire and the Society of Canine Defenders (now published in the United States for the first time). Insightful and inventive, Joann Sfar brings Little Vampire and Michael's fantastical world to young readers in stories that both feed the imagination and resonate with emotional truth.

Author Notes

The prodigious Joann Sfar has over 100 books in print and an international following that spans readers of all ages. His works include Sardine in Outer Space , Vampire Loves , Klezmer , and The Professor's Daughter . He was recently declared a 2007 Eisner Award nominee in the category of Best Writer/Artist, and Citizen Films is producing a documentary about him. He lives in Paris with his wife, two children, and cat.

Reviews (1)

Kirkus Review

Three episodes--two of which were originally published in English separately in 2003--feature the diminutive, grey-skinned bloodsucker, his human friend Michael and a haunted-houseful of spectacularly lurid ghouls and creepies. In the first, lonely Little Vampire meets Michael after going to his school at night, sitting at his desk and doing his homework. In the second Michael receives kung fu lessons from an eldritch instructor in hopes of ridding himself of a bully. The third, titled "The Canine Defenders Club," has the two buddies, with help from Little Vampire's gruff, scarlet pooch Phantomato, breaking into a cosmetics-testing laboratory to rescue three captive dogs. All three tales progress in small, brightly colored panels packed with brisk action, sight gags and dialogue in miniscule type. Fans of Emmanuel Guibert's Sardine in Outer Space series, which is illustrated by Sfar, will find his solo outings just as appealingly off-the-wall. Libraries that bought the first two chapters (which were issued by a different publisher) will need this as a value-added replacement. (Graphic novel. 9-11) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.