Elizabeth Bird's A Fuse #8 Production 2016 Fictionalized Non-Fiction for Kids TD Summer Reading Club's Top Recommend Reads for 2017 A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection * "A tribute as heartfelt as it is joyous" -- Kirkus Reviews , Starred Review "Gravel gives us a funny, very kid-friendly story about a gentle giant, someone who twirled children around on his braids, turning himself into a human merry-go-round for their amusement." -- School Library Journal Good Comics for Kids "What's to be made of lives that don't go the way they were supposed to? Gravel shows that they're worth paying attention to." -- Publishers Weekly "Kids will be taken by this larger-than-life figure, who is still beloved in Montreal, the city the Great Antonio called home."-- Booklist "Gravel's cartoonish art is graphically sophisticated." -- Montreal Gazette "In this innovative portraitnot quite a biography yet not quite a legendGravel affectionately places Antonio in the Paul Bunyan tradition of mighty men." -- Horn Book Magazine "A modern tale for a new audience." - Mom Read It.