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Hélène has been inexplicably ostracized by the girls who were once her friends. Her school life is full of whispers and lies — Hélène weighs 216; she smells like BO. Her loving mother is too tired to be any help. Fortunately, Hélène has one consolation, Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. Hélène identifies strongly with Jane’s tribulations, and when she is lost in the pages of this wonderful book, she is able to ignore her tormentors. But when Hélène is humiliated on a class trip in front of her entire grade, she needs more than a fictional character to allow her to see herself as a person deserving of laughter and friendship.
Leaving the outcasts’ tent one night, Hélène encounters a fox, a beautiful creature with whom she shares a moment of connection. But when Suzanne Lipsky frightens the fox away, insisting that it must be rabid, Hélène’s despair becomes even more pronounced: now she believes that only a diseased and dangerous creature would ever voluntarily approach her. But then a new girl joins the outcasts’ circle, Géraldine, who does not even appear to notice that she is in danger of becoming an outcast herself. And before long Hélène realizes that the less time she spends worrying about what the other girls say is wrong with her, the more able she is to believe that there is nothing wrong at all.
This emotionally honest and visually stunning graphic novel reveals the casual brutality of which children are capable, but also assures readers that redemption can be found through connecting with another, whether the other is a friend, a fictional character or even, amazingly, a fox.
- Sales Rank: #51718 in Books
- Published on: 2013-09-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 11.50" h x 9.00" w x .50" l, 1.60 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 104 pages
From Booklist
Pubescent Hélène sees herself as fat and beleaguered by her more popular and social classmates, so she turns to Jane Eyre to find a model for setting her prospects both high and anywhere other than her immediate circumstances. Britt’s well-constructed narrative is achieved sensitively through Arsenault’s impressionistic artwork, in which we see that Hélène is a pretty-ordinary-looking little 11-year-old in spite of her self-image. While her everyday life—which has become further burdened by an all-class camping trip—appears in a gray palette, when Hélène daydreams about Jane’s life, pastel washes and a vivid red appear. During the camping trip, Hélène comes across a red fox in the woods and begins to make some human friends. After a post–camping trip weigh-in, where she sees she’s perfectly normal, Hélène’s everyday world also takes on color. An elegant and accessible approach to an important topic, for readers of Erin Dionne’s Models Don’t Eat Chocolate Cookies (2009) and other novels about girls learning to cope with their own expectations of themselves. Grades 5-9. --Francisca Goldsmith
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Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Illustration (French)
Finalist for the Eisner Award for Best Publication for Children
Finalist for the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award
New York Times Best Illustrated Books
New York Public Library Books for Reading and Sharing
YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens
Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Books of the Year
Globe and Mail Best Books
"Loneliness is a language that doesn’t need translation....It’s a language understood by anyone who has endured the interminable wait for a Géraldine of her own." — The New York Times
"Readers will be delighted to see Helene’s world change as she grows up, learning to ignore the mean girls and realizing that, like Jane, she is worthy of friendship and love." — School Library Journal, starred review
"Hélène’s emotional tangle is given poignant expression through Arsenault’s pitch-perfect mixed-media art . . . [Her] story is sweetly comforting and compelling." — Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review
"Britt’s poetic prose captures Hélène’s heartbreaking isolation . . . [A] brutally beautiful story." — Horn Book, starred review
A New York Times Best Illustrated Book
"Loneliness is a language that doesn’t need translation....It’s a language understood by anyone who has endured the interminable wait for a Géraldine of her own." — The New York Times
"Readers will be delighted to see Helene’s world change as she grows up, learning to ignore the mean girls and realizing that, like Jane, she is worthy of friendship and love." — School Library Journal, Starred Review
"Hélène’s emotional tangle is given poignant expression through Arsenault’s pitch-perfect mixed-media art . . . [Her] story is sweetly comforting and compelling." — Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, Starred Review "There was no possibility of hiding anywhere today.
Not in the halls at school or out in the schoolyard or even in the far stairway, the one leading to art class that smells like sour milk.
They're everywhere, just like their insults scribbled on the walls."
— from the book
About the Author
Fanny Britt is a playwright, author and translator. She has a dozen plays to her credit. She has also translated over fifteen contemporary plays and several other works of literature. She writes children’s books and has published, among others, the Félicien series with La Courte Échelle. Jane, the Fox and Me is her first graphic novel. She lives in Montreal with her family.
Isabelle Arsenault is a very talented Quebec illustrator, who has garnered an impressive number of awards and international recognition. She has illustrated several books, including Le coeur de monsieur Gauguin (Governor General’s Award) and My Letter to the World and Other Poems (Governor General’s Award Finalist, IRA Children’s Choices), and she has won the Grand Prix for illustration (Magazines du Québec) for six years running.
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27 of 30 people found the following review helpful.
The power of a friend
By E. R. Bird
Isn't it strange how few children's graphic novels are published in a given year? This is one of those phenomena that defy the basic tenants of capitalism. The need, as anyone who has ever fielded reference questions from 10-year-olds will attest, is vast. Yet the product sputters out of publishing houses so sparsely and randomly that you can't help but be baffled. The only justification I can come up with is that graphic novels are bloody expensive to produce. That would certainly account for how many settle for single colors or black and white. Then there's the fact that they take forever to create. Even if a kid adores the first book in a series, if the art is really well done it could easily take an artist seven years to produce a sequel. Seven years is a long time if you're ten. Taking all of this into account, I am understandably wary when a new GN hits bookstore and library shelves and I feel my pulse pick up. Am I excited about this book because it is good or because it's a rarity? With Jane, the Fox & Me by Fanny Britt the answer is clear. I am excited about this book because this book is exciting. In the awe-inspiring sense, of course.
So many kids in school wish they weren't considered invisible. For Helene, the opposite is true. Everywhere she goes she runs into cruel comments about her weight or that she smells or equally childish accusations. Most of these are from the girls she used to hang out with, before they decided to suddenly make her into a pariah. Her only escape is a copy of Jane Eyre which she dives into at every available moment. When her class wins a special "treat" of going to a nature camp for four nights nothing could be more unwelcome. At the camp Helene finds herself in the outcast cabin, and even the sight of a wild fox can't break her out of her depression. It isn't until she meets Geraldine and finds herself in the thick of a new, true friendship that things start to subtly take a turn for the better.
Originally published in Quebec as Jane, le Renard & Moi, reading the book is a clear trip into another culture. For the United States-born child reader, some of the elements in the story may strike them as unusual. The fact that the student Lucia Munix "can't speak French yet because she just moved to Montreal" will be a tip-off, or else the names of the characters (Geraldine, Gerard, Marthe, Genevieve, etc.). My suspicion, however, is that the bulk of U.S. readers aren't even going to notice. At its heart, this is a universal story. You relate to the bullying, the ability to identify with a fictional character (even as we identify with Helene), and the school setting. I certainly identified with those moments when Helene will pretend to tie her shoe or do something similarly minor to look busy. They're small moments, but remarkably real.
With its original French roots I have to give translators Christelle Morelli and Susan Ouriou full credit for a remarkable job. Not enough people in this world understand how crucial the writing is in any given graphic novel. It's what separates the wheat from the chaff. And because this is a quiet school story, so much of the book depends on Helene's singular voice and observations. There's a section near the beginning of the book when Helene recounts a day when she woke up to find that her mother had sewed a crinoline dress for her in the night. Looking at it she can't help but list everything her mother does for the family, from the laundry to meals to the sewing. She imagines her mother so exhausted at the end of the day, yet still working on this dress, that she says, "to herself out loud so just maybe someone will hear her, even though by now everyone's in bed, `I'm so tired I could die'." Thinking of all this she continues to stare in the mirror. Her obsession with crinolines had, at this point, long since passed ever since her fellow-crinoline lovers turned into her adversaries at school. "So I stare at the beautiful brand-new crinoline dress that's mine alone with no whiff of mothballs." A pause. "Even so, it droops a little." Kills me, that line.
The relationships in the book gel well, particularly the comfortable moments between Helene and her mom. There's a point at which they've just survived a shopping excursion with a perky saleswoman from hell and now they're having an ice cream and a coffee. A companionable moment happens as they sit on a bench. It feels desperately real. As for her relationships with her schoolmates I was almost always on board. There is, by the story's end, a subtle change between Helene and her tormentor Genevieve that strikes a hopeful if false note. I do have a bit of a hard time believing that Helene would so readily forgive Genevieve by the story's end. Particularly since it's clear that this change in their relationship has happened out of the blue and for no particular reason. We go from a hellish daily experience to an out-of-the-blue peace. I would have liked a little more reason for that.
I have mentioned that full-color graphic novels are an expensive affair, but by the same token there's an understanding in the industry that children will read black and white comics only rarely. How to find the balance between these two seemingly opposite notions? A judicious use of color. In this book Helene disappears into Jane Eyre to escape the taunts of her schoolmates, and as she does so Jane's story suffuses the pages with color. At first it's just red of varying hues, but soon after it gives Helene a little green Eden of her own making. That Eden's color comes and goes throughout the story. The only colored moments remain in Helene's head until the moment she sees a fox in the woods. After that, she makes a friend and then when she returns to school, there's a change. Small, but evident. Red shoes. A blue wall. Green and blue jungle leaves in the midst of suburban greenery. It's not a full-color world yet, but things are getting a little bit better.
At the risk of dipping a bit too deeply into the book, can we talk fonts? I'm not a font person. I don't know my Helvetica from my Geneva and I've only the vaguest sense as to why Comic Sans is as universally disliked as it is. However, when it comes to comics I suddenly become a font connoisseur. I watch for the subtle variations between the blocky all-caps font of Helene's narration, the very different font of the Jane Eyre sections, and the cursive of dialogue. In particular, I love how names will sometimes appear in the handwriting of that person. It's a great way to highlight the importance of a name at a given moment.
A friend of mine once told me the story of something that happened to her when she was in the second grade. All at once one day all her friends decided that she was poison. For seemingly no reason they wrote her a letter explicitly stating that she was no longer their friend and they hated her. I remembered this story as I read the tale of Helene and the very similar shut out she experienced at the hands of her former friends. Sometimes there is no logical explanation for child cruelty. We're lucky if we have a Jane Eyre to turn to, even as we try to find new friends and confidants. For some children out there, Jane, the Fox & Me is going to be their own Jane Eyre. Helene will shoulder their blows and offer hope for coming out strong at the end. Could a book of this sort hope for anything better? A rare piece.
For ages 9-12.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Please get this
By S. Crangle
This book is just amazing. I have two pre-teen step children (fraternal twins) and find myself loathing their introduction to middle school, make up, intelligence, etc, etc, etc, etc. I bought this book for one of them and read it before wrapping it up, taking me about 15 minutes to do. Then I thought about it every day for days upon days. A book that appears to be so simple, that packs what I understand to be a very loaded and complex message about fitting in, self acceptance, self image and perceptions in general.
I still hate middle school.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Beautifully-illustrated tale of an alienated young girl seeking comfort in "Jane Eyre"
By Z Hayes
"Jane, the Fox, and Me" is a beautiful and poignant story of bullying, alienation and teen angst. This amazing graphic novel narrates the story of Hélène, a teenager who suddenly finds herself ostracized by girls who were once her friends. These ex-friends now label her fat and make fun of her, leaving Hélène feeling lonely and unsure of herself, seeking refuge in the classic novel, "Jane Eyre". In "Jane Eyre", Hélène finds escape from the despairs of her reality, seeking inspiration in the titular character of her favorite novel - the strong, slender, intelligent Jane Eyre. When Hélène learns her class is about to go on a camping field trip, she reacts with fear and horror, but her experiences at the camp just might help her discover hope and friendship.
The illustrations are simply amazing and convey all the typical feelings associated with adolescence - embarrassment, loneliness, fear, and alienation. The story does not shrink away from portraying bullying in all its ugliness; bullying is depicted as something insidious that creeps into the victim's life and wreaks havoc. Hélène's story alternates between that of Hélène's favorite story, "Jane Eyre", and the distinction is conveyed via the use of colors - dark and grey for Hélène's story, and bold, vivid colors for "Jane Eyre", although by the final few pages, Hélène's story has undergone a transformation and is realized in full color as well. I think this graphic novel addresses the subject matter in a subtle and symbolic manner and I would recommend this as a must-read, especially for adolescents, and as a resource for school and public libraries.
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