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    Scholastic To Publish Bone Tribute Edition With New Art

    Esther Keller, July 26, 2014 | News

    Scholastic has announced that in February 2015 they will release a special edition of Jeff Smith’s Bone #1: Out From Boneville to kick off the celebration of their 10th anniversary of their Graphix imprint. Established in 2005, Graphix, Scholastic’s graphic novel imprint, launched with the colorized version of Jeff Smith’s Bone series. Bone, according to […]

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    Review: Star Wars Jedi Academy: Return of the Padawan!

    Esther Keller, July 23, 2014 | Reviews

    Star Trek. Star Wars. To tell you the truth, I’m a mess when it comes to some pop culture phenomena. Leonard Nimoy. Princess Lea. Darth Vader. It’s all a huge jumble in my mind. (Sometimes, I even throw War Games into the jumble!) So why on earth am I reviewing a Star Wars book? Because […]

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    Top Shelf Reveals Cover for Book 2 of ‘March’

    Esther Keller, July 15, 2014 | Previews

    Top Shelf Productions unveiled the cover for book 2 of March yesterday in an interview with the three creators of the book on CNN. (Chris Ross of Top Shelf posted some comments about the process of refining the cover on his Twitter.) Slated to be released in early 2015, the second volume of Congressman John […]

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    Review: Dragon Girl: The Secret Valley

    Esther Keller, June 12, 2014 | Reviews

    Over the last couple of weeks, I started to notice ads for a new summer release, How to Train Your Dragon 2. The first movie, which was released four years ago, was a rousing success. As a librarian, I remember the constant requests for the series of books in which the movie was based on. […]

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    Review: Rio: Snakes Alive

    Esther Keller, May 20, 2014 | Reviews

    When the Scholastic Book Orders came with free Rio2 bookmarks just as my review copy of Papercutz’s Rio arrived in my mailbox, I knew that there was a big movie release on the horizon. Generally, I’m not a fan of movie-tie ins, so I was a bit of a skeptic when I picked this up. […]

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    Review: Dinosaurs, vol. 2

    Esther Keller, May 6, 2014 | Graphic Novels, Reviews

    True story: We were planning a trip the zoo and my three-year-old daughter and I were having a conversation about what animals we might see there. We mentioned sea lions, tigers, birds, and turtles. But then my daughter asked, “Will we see dinosaurs?” “No,” I answered,  “Dinosaurs aren’t found in zoos.  Maybe we can see […]

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    Interview: Dave McDonald

    Esther Keller, March 6, 2014 | Interviews

    When Janna Morishima, formerly of Graphix and Papercutz comics, introduced me to Hamster S.A.M., she described it as a “outrageously silly, slapstick humor” that any emerging reader will enjoy.  And her take on the comic is very accurate.  Hamster S.A.M. is a delightful read.  To hear more about this self-published comic, which you may have […]

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    Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children: The Graphic Novel

    Esther Keller, January 8, 2014 | Manga, Reviews, Young Adult

    Yen Press has become known for its adaptation of many of the novels from its mother company, Little Brown.  But its latest book adaptation comes from an independent book publisher, Quirk Books, which gained great notoriety with two best-selling titles, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. The latter is […]

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    Review: Curses! Foiled Agen

    Esther Keller, December 30, 2013 | Graphic Novels, Reviews

    In our GC4K’s Book Club discussion of Foiled, much of the “complaint” was that the book was mostly a set-up for a future story.  But for those who read Foiled, and wanted to know more about Aliera’s world, then they’ll be happy to grab the next installment, because the story continued and it was a […]

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    Review: Beautiful Creatures

    Esther Keller, December 26, 2013 | Manga, Reviews, Young Adult

    Reading the graphic adaptation of Beautiful Creatures made me think of a bad movie adaptation.  The artwork is beautiful and really caters to manga fans, but readers who’ve read the book or listened to the audio version will find so much missing from this title. Beautiful Creatures Written by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl, Illustrated […]

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