Title: The Midas Flesh

Author: Ryan North

Illustrators: Braden Lamb and Shelli Paroline

Date: 2014

Tags: Young adult, Graphic novel, Mythology, King Midas, Future worlds, Female lead, Animal characters, Racially/Ethnically diverse, English

Readers interested in a scholarly approach to children’s literature may consult this title on Our Mythical Childhood Survey*

It is very interesting in a way that you wouldn't expect it. Fatima, Joey, and Cooper are very funny and smart. The small battle between them in the old Federation Sagittarius reminded me of Star Wars and Guardians of the Galaxy. - Julian (age 10)


* For further information on the Our Mythical Childhood Survey, please refer to the website of the project “Our Mythical Childhood” [link: http://omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/], led by Prof. Katarzyna Marciniak at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales,” University of Warsaw, Poland, with the participation of Bar Ilan University, University of New England, University of Roehampton, University of Yaoundé 1, and other affiliated scholars, within the funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (grant agreement No 681202).