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4.0 2
Young Adult Fiction
191
Spectacular
(Updated: June 15, 2026)
Overall rating
4.0
Plot
4.0
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Reader reviewed by bookworm9
Telling the story of the Holocaust using mice (as Jews), pigs (as Nazis), and various other animals sounds like it should be taboo or else a picture book for young children, but Maus is neither, and it is spectacular. Spiegelman (in mouse form) jumps back and forth between his present day rocky relationship with his father and flashbacks to his father's life during the Holocaust in rivetting comic book form. I guarantee you will not be able to put this book down, and will be eager to read Maus II.
Telling the story of the Holocaust using mice (as Jews), pigs (as Nazis), and various other animals sounds like it should be taboo or else a picture book for young children, but Maus is neither, and it is spectacular. Spiegelman (in mouse form) jumps back and forth between his present day rocky relationship with his father and flashbacks to his father's life during the Holocaust in rivetting comic book form. I guarantee you will not be able to put this book down, and will be eager to read Maus II.
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