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Time Codes: 00:00:32 - Introduction 00:03:30 - Setup of the episode 00:05:44 - The Stone Heart 00:32:12 - “Required Reading: 50 of the Best Kids Comics” 00:49:44 - Introducing Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults: A Collect of Critical Essays 01:03:39 - Wrap up 01:03:58 - Contact us In this episode of The Comics Alternative's Young Readers series, Gwen and Paul discuss the second volume in Faith Erin Hicks’s Nameless City trilogy, The Stone Heart (First Second), as well as Paste Magazine’s “Required Reading: 50 of the Best Kids Comics” list. Paul also conducts a “mini-interview” with Gwen about the release of Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults, a volume she co-edited with Michelle Ann Abate for the University Press of Mississippi. The show begins with a review of the second volume in Faith Erin Hicks’s Nameless City trilogy, The Stone Heart. They praise the sequel’s strong plot and attention to perils of colonization and cultural erasure, and they consider the way that a numb