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Where would we be without boos?

Where would we be without good news in the bird?

It's a rhetorical question, sir, but where would we be without goodos into bird? It's a rhetorical question, sir, but where would we be without books?

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.

Well, I'm out of my head with excitement.

Today, the subject is kids' books.

And I have Francois Mouli, who is the editor of Tune Books.

They have begun a new imprint, tune graphic books.

I have Ian Falconer, who is the Lord Mayor and Inventor of Olivia,

the naughty little piglet whose adventures have occupied seven full-length kid books and countless ABC kind of board books.

And then I have the current crown prince of the dark novel for children.

It's Neil Gaiman.

The graveyard books have appeared as graphic novels,

but one of the great new tune graphic books is

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