Our Favorite Graphical Novel for Girls- Persepolis-is a Movie!
Persepolis is a graphical novel series, the second one is called Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
If you are able to get this boolk at library or buy- please do- it is EXCELLENT. My daughtet got is a gift from her Aunt ( the cool, hip kind) when she was 8- was a bit young for ti then but when she was about 9/10 she loved it.
Those he think comics have little value are insane- this is one of the best graphical novels ever written.
The black-and-white animation, highly stylized and two dimensions which doesn’t attempt to render the usual cartoon 3-D, summarizes in quick, intelligent flashes, often impressionistic, growing up in Teheran and Vienna from a highly personal point of view. The narrative is as original as the art. The narrator, Marjane Satrapi, only daughter of an educated Teheran couple, first sketches in briefly how the Shah first came to power,only to lose it and have it replaced by the fanatical religious regime of today. Educated in a French school, she and her family are rapidly alienated from the so-called revolution; she is sent to Vienna to continue her education, falls in with a group of punks and eventually returns both depressed and disillusioned to Teheran where, with other university students, she must submit to the rule of extreme Islamists.