In 2016 the theme for the Children’s Literature Association conference was “Animation.” I presented “Midas and the Value of Animate Others,” which treats Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Wonder Book, a Midas picturebook by Charlotte Craft and Kinuko Y. Craft, Neal Shusterman’s Eyes of Kid Midas, and the comic book series The Midas Flesh by Ryan North et al. (Click on the paper title for a PDF of the talk.)