 To promote literacy in young children , Mouly encouraged publishers to publish comics for children . Disappointed by publishers ' lack of response , from 2008 she self @-@ published a line of easy readers called Toon Books , by artists such as Spiegelman , Renée French , and <unk> <unk> , and promotes the books to teachers and librarians for their educational value . Spiegelman 's Jack and the Box was one of the inaugural books in 2008 . 
