So we're talking at 11.15 a.m. on Friday, February 25th and what are we going to be covering today?

Well, Roman, are you familiar with the graphic novel Mouse?

I am. I am.

Yeah.

Yeah, I love it.

It's a graphic novel by Art Spiegelman,

written in two parts about the Holocaust.

And I'm sure as you know, it a story of Spigelman's parents who were

sent to Auschwitz but did survive the Holocaust. Now what made this book so

gripping for millions of people is that Spiegelman turned the experiences

of his parents into a comic book format. And remember when it was first published in 1986,

the format felt so different and new. The Nazis are cats, the Jews or mice and Auschwitz is sometimes

referred to as Mauschwitz, but the horrors are still the same. But it was that combination.

Mouse's gripping subject matter with its comic book storytelling that drew all international

attention. and in 1992

Spigelman won a special Pulitzer Prize for his two volumes.

We shouldn't be surprised that you can find Mouse

as a part of many classroom discussions all around the country.

But on January 10th, the McMahon County Tennessee Board of Education

met to discuss the eighth grade language curriculum and the director of

Macman County Schools raised the meetings for a subject. He said there is some

rough objectionable language in this book.

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