Deutsch’s uses the graphic novel format to tell a unique story that will appeal to fans of the genre, and make new ones, too. Hereville Series 3 primary works 3 total works Book 1 How Mirka Got Her Sword by Barry Deutsch 3.74 7,512 Ratings 889 Reviews published 2010 5 editions Spunky, strong-willed eleven-year-old Mirka Hersch Want to Read Rate it: Book 2 How Mirka Met a Meteorite by Barry Deutsch 3. Footnotes define the Hebrew and Yiddish terms to make this charming book accessible to a wider audience. The illustrations are fun, ably enhancing the text. The troll declares her the winner of the contest, and she returns home with the sword in hand, ready to knit more while she awaits her next adventure. As Mirka has not paid much attention to her knitting lessons,she is pleased that she is able to knit the required sweater, though it requires some fast thinking on her part to justify the extra sleeve she knitted. She meets a troll in the woods, and he challenges her to a knitting contest.
An encounter with an angry pig takes Mirka underwater, where she experiences a vision of her late mother and meets a witch who tells her how to find a hidden sword. And she boldly accepts a challenge from a mysterious witch, a challenge that could. She battles a very large, very menacing pig.
She fearlessly stands up to local bullies. In their town of Hereville, which sometimes feels like a old world shtetl and sometime feels quite modern, Mirka and her siblings go to school, help around the house, and occasionally bicker, activities with which most young readers will easily identify. Granted, no dragons have been breathing fire around Hereville, the Orthodox Jewish community where Mirka lives, but that doesn't stop the plucky girl from honing her skills. (Nov.Mirka, the star of this unusual graphic novel, is an 11-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl who wants to fight dragons, not take knitting lessons from her stepmother. This is a terrific story, told with skill and lots of heart, that readers of all ages will enjoy. “I live in the family your mother made, surrounded by her children and under her roof,” Mirka’s intelligent, prickly, loving stepmother tells her, in one poignant scene. Fantastical elements mesh perfectly with the deep emotional heart of Mirka’s story. Deutsch weaves in information about Shabbos, phrases in Yiddish (translated at the bottom of the page), illustrations of the different looks (rebel, pious, popular) girls create with the white shirts and long black skirts they wear-and all of it is lively and engaging. His expressive, surprising drawings give life to Mirka’s quest and to the unusual and genuine relationships she has with family members and magical creatures. The book brings new material to the original Web comic, completed in 2008, allowing Deutsch to make a great comic even better. When a witch and a talking pig turn up in the woods near home, Mirka can’t help getting involved, much to the dismay of her seven sisters, brother, and argumentative stepmother. Spunky Mirka wants to be a dragon-slayer, but everyone in the small Orthodox Jewish community of Hereville is against it.
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