Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for September 16, 2018

Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn, 1001 Arabian Nights, Alice in Wonderland… excellent choices.

Love the references in today’s strip.

Tried to get a great-granddaughter to read ‘Heidi’….didn’t work!

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Aladdin and the Magic Lamp Antoine Galland

The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll(Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)

Awesome strip

If their minds were creating the imagery, why did most if not all of it look like Disney cartoons? I know, so we the reading audience who relate. But I would have gone with stories we could relate to that weren’t exclusively Disney. Moby Dick. The Three Musketeers. There are a host of universally known stories with imagery that could be imagined many ways and still be recognizable. That being said, I do love the cartoonist’s visual style.

This is where the majority of kids no longer go – to their imaginations.

Very nicely done!

There are some (not me, but some) who would say Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn are not fit reading for children because they use the N-word, even though in the context of the time that was very common.

I wish this were the case still. Sadly, many go to their phones or tablets to enter imaginary worlds – maybe draw one tomorrow with Candy Crush?

Manitowoc Public Library (Wisconsin) has a mural above the doors. Click on ‘some animation on the creation of our mural.’ It’s awesome and similar to this.

Some very good art work, here.

My daughter loves the library. Before she learned to drive I would drive her to the library every couple of weeks. One day I took her to renew a book and 5 minutes later she came out with a stack of 7 more books.

Great comic today! Thanks to the Broom Hilda readers who mentioned this. I still love books and libraries!

Plus Don Quixote.

Yes, but unfortunately some people want to ban Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn.

I love this comic so much! Libraries (and books) are so good for us, emotionally and mentally.

I think a large print of this should be sent to every library to display!