# The Great Turkey Walk: A Graphic Novel Adaptation of the Classic Story of a Boy, His Dog and a Thousand Turkeys - Hardcover

by **Kathleen Karr** (Author), **L?onie Bischoff** (Illustrator), **Michelle Bailat-Jones** (Translator)

**Winner of the grand prize at the Angoul?me International Comics Festival!**

**Kathleen Karr's classic American story of grit, friendship, and turkeys--finally reimagined as a sensational graphic novel.  
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Missouri 1860: Simon Green is a bad student. His mother is dead and his father has disappeared. But he's daring, and so when he hears that turkeys fetch a higher price in Denver, he borrows his teacher's life savings and buys a herd of a thousand birds. Then he sets off on the thousand-mile trek with his dog and a pair of mules. To survive the odyssey that follows, Simon will need grit, luck and smarts--and a colorful cast of friends.

Kathleen Karr's beloved middle-grade novel of a resourceful boy and his herd of a thousand turkeys has enchanted readers everywhere since it was first published in 1998. Now it will reach a whole new audience in L?onie Bischoff's enchanting graphic novel, finally available in English. The adaptation has already garnered two of the world's most prestigious graphic novel awards: the grand prize at the Angoul?me International Comics Festival as well as the _ACBD_ (French Comic Book Critics Association's Award).

### Author Biography

**Kathleen Karr** was born in Allentown,  
Pennsylvania, and grew up on a chicken farm in Dorothy, New Jersey.  
After escaping to college, she worked in the film industry, and also  
taught in high school and college. She seriously began writing fiction  
on a dare from her husband. After honing her skills in women's fiction,  
her children asked her to write a book for them (_It Ain't Always Easy_), and she discovered she loved writing  
for young readers. She is the author of more than twenty novels for  
young readers. Her book _The Boxer_, won the Golden Kite award. She died  
in 2017.  

After graduating in comics from the  
Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels, **Léonie Bischoff** became a bookseller and  
then an editor. She is the author of a graphic novel about the diarist  
Anaïs Nin. Her adaptation of Kathleen Karr's The Great Turkey Walk is  
her first book for children. Born in Geneva, Switzerland, Léonie  
currently lives in Belgium.  

**Michelle Bailat-Jones** is a translator and novelist living in  
Switzerland. She has translated several short stories as well as two  
novels by C. F. Ramuz, _Beauty on Earth_ and _What if the Sun...?_  
Her other translations include work by Clarisse Francillon, Claude  
Cahun, Julia Allard Daudet, Laure Mi-Hyun Croset, and Céline Cerny.  

**Number of Pages:** 144

**Dimensions:** 0.7 x 10.9 x 8.3 IN

**Publication Date:** October 08, 2024

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