First – I’m crafting this post just so I can say WHOOT! Janet K. Lee blurbed my book! Who’s Janet Lee?
This is the art of Janet Lee:
Sweet, no? If you know Steampunk or comics or graphic novels – then you know Return of the Dapper Men. Her art. Is FINE!
So here’s what she had to say about Her Majesty’s Explorer: a Steampunk bedtime story:
The color pallet and style called to mind several books I liked to read as a child–enjoyably retro-and the verse carried the stories along beautifully. One of the things I always look for when buying a book for my own children is how easy it would be to read the book multiple times each night, and this absolutely passes the test!
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I love it! No, wait – SHE loves it.
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The other interesting thing that HME has in common with Return of the Dapper Men, is that when you go to amazon and search for children’s books and Steampunk – at least at the time – these two books were the only ones that came up. At least that was true when I started. As Dapper is more of a graphic novel – I totally feel justified in saying this is the FIRST Steampunk picture book.
