Little Lit: The Series, Signed

Art Spiegelman, author of Maus, and Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker's art editor, are the husband-and-wife editors of Little Lit, three volumes published in the early 2000s which bring together a number of authors and illustrators to create sophisticated comics stories for children. Stephen Kroninger writes with snapshots of all three books, signed and personalized back in the day for his twin daughters by many of the writers and artists involved in the project.

Little Lit:  Folklore and Fairy Tale Funnies (2000)

Inscribed to Hannah and Rachel in December 2001 by Kaz, Harry Bliss, Barbara McClintock, Daniel Clowes (signed in 2002), Art Spiegelman, and Françoise Mouly

Little Lit:  Strange Stories for Strange Kids (2001)

Inscribed to Hannah and Rachel in December 2001 by Ian Falconer, Paul Auster, Barbara McClintock, Kaz, Jules Feiffer, Art Spiegelman, and Françoise Mouly

Little Lit:  It Was a Dark and Silly Night (2003)

Inscribed to Hannah and Rachel in July 2003 by Art Spiegelman

Note:  Illustrator and collagist Stephen Kroninger has now racked up thirty-seven contribution to Attempted Bloggery. Nice job, Stephen.

These three books were collected as Big Fat Little Lit in 2006. The Little Lit website still refers to these as the first three books, leaving open the somewhat remote possibility of future volumes for a new generation. Readers should be on the lookout for other specially-inscribed copies of any of the Little Lit books to show off here.

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