{"id":11830,"date":"2010-12-06T01:39:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T08:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hereville.com\/?p=816"},"modified":"2010-12-06T01:39:38","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T08:39:38","slug":"%e2%80%9ctablet%e2%80%9d-magazine-on-hereville-%e2%80%9cperfect-throughout%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11830","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTablet\u201d Magazine on Hereville: \u201cPerfect Throughout\u201d!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marjorie Ingall has included Hereville in her annual listing of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/life-and-religion\/51464\/children-of-the-book-2\/\">the year&#8217;s best Jewish books for kids<\/a>! There&#8217;s also a mini-review of Hereville:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Perfect throughout is <em>Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword<\/em>, by Barry Deutsch. It\u2019s a very weird, confidently drawn graphic novel about an 11-year-old Orthodox girl who fervently wants to fight dragons. Mirka Herschberg lives in a tight-knit community in an unknown time and place where boys have <em>payos <\/em>and married women cover their hair, but where the woods are full of trolls and witches and humongous crazed pigs. I love that the stepmother in this book is good instead of evil, and I love that Deutsch really knows how to tell a story in his chosen medium. Characters burst free of their panels; the interplay of image and text is flawless; the entire book is kinetic and action-filled, but thoughtful too. A must for graphic-novel fans.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks so much, Marjorie! Check out her full list to see what great company <em>Hereville <\/em>is in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marjorie Ingall has included Hereville in her annual listing of the year&#8217;s best Jewish books for kids! There&#8217;s also a mini-review of Hereville: Perfect throughout is Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword, by Barry Deutsch. It\u2019s a very weird, confidently drawn graphic novel about an 11-year-old Orthodox girl who fervently wants to fight dragons. Mirka [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11830\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hereville","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}