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Thursday Reviews: ParaNorman and Zita the Spacegirl

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I couldn’t decide which of the two texts I should review this week, so I’ve elected to do short reviews of both. For starters, I have to drop a link to Faith Erin Hicks’s wonderful comic review of ParaNorman: http://www.tor.com/stories/2012/08/appreciating-the-animation-and-story-of-paranorman. The basic concept of the movie is that Norman is a boy who can see and

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The Lorax and Dystopian Texts

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Disclaimer: I have never read Dr. Seuss’s book, The Lorax. I have seen the 1972 TV special, which I have been told is an almost word for word adaptation. Any comparisons I make are relative to the TV special, not the book. Being as fabulously behind the times as I am, I only got around

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