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One of the things I love most about finishing books is having the chance to talk about them with other people who have read (and finished) the same book. It’s even better when I have the chance to discuss books with people who read with their brains engaged. (You may not realize how rare this […]
Boom! Studios is quickly becoming the place to go for a variety of kid friendly books with their Disney, Disney/Pixar, and Muppet lines. Be sure to check out the trades Muppet Peter Pan, and the Wizards of Mickey, as well as a new title that also a pick this week. IDW has jumped on the […]
Someone in his pet shop keeps stealing Mr. Venezi’s sandwich and he assumes it’s the koalas, er, hamsters. (Mr. Venezi isn’t very good with telling animals apart.) Hamisher, a new hamster in the shop, knows it isn’t the hamsters who are stealing the sandwich. If it isn’t the hamsters, though, then which of the animals […]
Life imitates art: In this Unshelved cartoon, Dewey the librarian compiles a list of "books teen boys would read (if they knew they existed)." Enough people asked for the (nonexistent) list that the creators opened up a discussion. I’m mentioning it here, of course, because a number of graphic novels have come up—and they may […]
Tales of love found and lost have been told for centuries in every culture around the world. Shakespeare doesn’t have a monopoly on tragic love stories as this tale from the Aztecs shows. Popocatepeltl and Iztaccihuatl love each other very much. But an overprotective father, who is also Emperor, and a jealous rival plot to […]
Amanda Tarbet has a great essay at Sequential Tart looking at recent children’s comics that celebrate friendship. And Suzette Chan looks at the appeal of monsters in kids’ graphic novels, Jellaby and Bayou in particular. Yen Press announced a bevy of new licenses this week, including a children’s book by French author Emile Bravo, Goldilocks […]
Superheroes are out in force on this week’s list. Boom! Studios debuts Disneys Hero Squad, a title that was a part of Mickey and Friends, but has gained its own ongoing series. DC brings out a new trade of Tiny Titans, their Teen Titans little kid friendly title. And there’s a new Amelia Rules, where […]
Ginger has a problem: her mother, Mrs. Fox, wants the family to share a burrow with Mr. Badger. Worse still, Mr. Badger has two bratty, bossy boys who don’t know how to play proper fox games and who insist on doing things their way. Unable to discourage their parents from merging households, Ginger, Grub, and […]
The 2010 Great Graphic Novels for Teens (GGNT) list was posted in middle of January. After spending 2 years on the committee – I know how much effort and work goes into reading, discussing, and selecting the titles. Even so, it’s still a lot of fun to dissect the “best of” lists when they’re posted. […]
All his life Takashi Natsume has been able to see things that others cannot. Since his parents died after he was born, Takashi has spent his life being shipped from relative to relative, with all of them too scared of him to keep him for long. Now that he is in high school, he has […]
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