Map of Dreams is ostensibly, a children's book by a Caldecott medal winner and one of the most distinguished picturebook creators in the USA.  I have to admit I'd never heard of Shulevitz even though he's written nearly 40 children's books since 1963.  If Map of Dreams is any indication I've really missed out.

Map of dreams is an autobiographical tale of his childhood when he and his family fled Poland for Turkestan at the start of the Second World War.  As his name suggests Shulevitz is Jewis...
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I wanted to operate an experiment on digital comics and compare them with an identical printed copy.  I don't generally hold with downloading comics and have limited my use of torrents to work that is unavailable in printed form and pretty old.  Mostly it's been 50's DC stuff like Bob Hope and some of their westerns and some of the Richie Rich books to get a better feel for stuff of historical value and fantastic artistic quality.

But there's been a lot of talk about digital delivery of comics...
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