Words of Wisdom

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The guy chosen by the US Library of Congress as the new National Ambassador for Young People's Literature? He writes comic books. The graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang tells us why comics matter and why superheroes are just the beginning. Then: how a man who once fled Nazi Germany wound up discovering Adolf Hitler’s long-forgotten second book. And, a small-town obituary writer in Alaska shares the life lessons she’s learned on the job. Plus: why loosened US marijuana laws have sent Mexican weed prices plunging. The two-country journey one student takes every day to get to school. And a champion of bilingual education remembers her mother's stories of being paddled in school for speaking Spanish. Image: Graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang at the 2015 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards ceremony. (Credit: Kendall Whitehouse)