Le Train des Orphelins #5

A dusty frontier town bursts with life on Xavier Fourquemin's cover for this 2015 volume subtitled Cowpoke Canyon — a crowd of children and townsfolk spills across a wooden boardwalk in front of a drugstore and general store, with one boy clearly squaring up for a scuffle while others scramble around him. Philippe Charlot and Fourquemin's series about orphan children riding the rails through the American West continues to deliver warmth and adventure in equal measure. Fans of period coming-of-age stories set against wide-open frontier backdrops will find plenty to love here.