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Bibliographic Citation
Title: Around the World in 80 Days
Author/Illustrator: Rod Espinosa
Year of Publication: 2008
Publisher City: Edina
Publisher: Red Wagon
ISBN: 1602700508
Author/Illustrator Website: No Website
Media Used for Artwork: Watercolor, Ink, Photography
Fiction Graphic Novel
"The Classics Revisited" Group Project- Please visit our presentation here to learn more about how this graphic novel and others can be used in a high school curriculum.
Annotation
Phileas Fogg wagers that he can travel the world in 80 days. The next day he sets off to tour the world traveling by boat, train and many other modes of transportation.
Personal Reaction
(Provided by J. Knell)
In a smoky room, filled with card players discussing a recent robbery, Phileas Fogg states to his friends that “one can travel ten times faster now than a century ago. That will result in the rapid capture of the thief”. Skeptical of Fogg’s assertions, he sets off to prove his friends wrong and travel the world in eighty days. The text and illustrations are rendered in comic book fashion in what appear to be watercolor, ink and photographs. The period looking illustrations will transport readers to another era and to the many exotic places traveled by Fogg. This is an entertaining and fun introduction to Jules Verne’s literary classic, Around the World in 80 Days.
Curricular Connection: Educators may wish to have students read the unabridged and graphic novel editions together so as to discuss the differences and weigh the pros and cons of each.
Curricular Connection: Educators may wish to have students read the unabridged and graphic novel editions together so as to discuss the differences and weigh the pros and cons of each.
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