title: Classics Illustrated Deluxe #3: Frankenstein (Classics Illustrated Deluxe Graphic Nove)
author:  Marion Mousse 
description: The Classics Illustrated series provides readers who havent yet read the literary classics directly with a graphic-novel introduction to the plot, characters, action, and even the language employed in their telling. This volume is so faithful to Shelleys account of the man-made sentient being that the monster doesnt even appear until a third of the way through. For contemporary children who associate the name Frankenstein solely with the monster fit for a Halloween costume rather than with the guilt-plagued doctor who created him, this may be a bit of a wait. The artwork in the beginning, while richly colored and detailed with period costume and European and arctic scenery, serves as simple illustration rather than being vital to understanding the proceedings. When the mostly silent, watchful creature enters the story, however, the images become much more essentially engaged with the narrative. In the end, perhaps the best audience for this is the child who already knows the Shelley version but has a visual orientation toward the world of narrative. Grades 6-9. --Francisca Goldsmith
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  >  _For my mother Sara Hanstein Moyle_
  
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  >  _In memory of_
  
  >  _my father Samuel Boddie Moyle, III_
  
  >  _and_
  
  >  _my grandmother Frances Katz Hanstein_
  
   _June 1934_
  
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   _Gussie_
  
   _Gussie Feldman didn’t enjoy swimming_ but she did like to lie on the wet
  sand, in the shadow of Atlantic City’s Steel Pier, and wait for the tiniest
  ripple of a wave to wash ov