Bibliograph

Missouri Boy, by Leland Myrick

Type

Label

Missouri Boy, by Leland Myrick

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

comic strips

Main title

Missouri Boy

Oclc number

74473170

Responsibility statement

by Leland Myrick

Summary

Myrick shares slices of his own childhood in this graphic memoir: his birth at the moment of his grandmother's death; a magical Fourth of July, lighting firecrackers in a tree in the yard; a boyhood ritual of skinny-dipping in a pond in the woods; his first failed attempt at romance. He paints childhood as both simple and complex, mixing the joy of folding the perfect paper airplane with the family tragedy of watching his older brother sentenced to 10 years in prison

Target audience

juvenile

Classification