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Author Archives: rosinskynatalie
And the Winner Is
What a thrill! Jerry Craft’s graphic novel New Kid (2019) recently won the prestigious 2019 Newbery Medal for the year’s “most distinguished contribution to children’s literature.” With this award, the American Library Association placed graphic literature fully in the mainstream … Continue reading
Posted in Books, comics, graphic novels
Tagged 2019 Eisner Awards, 2020 Eisner Awards, ALA Awards, battles, boy robot, Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World, Catholic School, Chinese immigrants, Class Act, Comic-Con, comics, crossdresser, Descender, Dustin Nguyen, early readers, Eisner Awards, Faith Erin Hicks, friendship, genderqueer, Ghosts, graphic novel, Hicotea, Hicotea: A Nightlights Story, James Kolchaka, James Kolchalka, Jeff Lemire, Jen Wang, Jerry Craft, Johnny Boo and the Ice Cream Computer, Jordie Bellaire, K-pop music, Lark Pien, Latin American, Lorena Alvarez, New Kid, Newberry Awards, Newbery Awards, Nightlights, parent-child reconciliation, Penelope Bagieu, SF, Stargazing, surreal images, teens, The Divided Earth, The Nameless City, The Prince and the Dressmaker, The Stone Heart, TOON Books, tweens, wetlands, Will Eisner, Will Eisner Week
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On Fire
Blazing sights and sounds dominate the news. Very young readers may have “tuned out” the U.S. impeachment firestorms, but the vivid, heartrending images of Australia’s animals burned in that country’s worst-ever firestorm season are unforgettable. These wildfires sparked just as … Continue reading
Posted in Books, catastrophe, graphic novels, memoir, picture books
Tagged A Fire Story, A is for Australian Animals, airplanes, alphabet book, Australia, Brian Fies, Bridget Heos, bushfires, California, chapter book, charcoal, Claire Saxby, climate change, controlled burns, digital illustration, drawing style, early elementary readers, Emu, Extreme Wildfire Smoke Jumpers High Tech Gear Survival Tactics and the Extraordinary Science of Fire, firefighters, firefighting, firestorm season, Frane Lessac, Glen Phelan, Grahame Byrne, graphic novel, Greg Egan, impeachment, kangaroo, Kathy Furgang, Little Smokey, Mark Thiessen, Marsupials, Mom's Cancer, National Geographic books, Nic Bishop, picture book, President Trump, Robert Neubecker, Stephane Jorisch, teen readers, The Big Burn Teddy Roosevelet and the Fire That Saved America, The Little Engine that Could, The World's Worst Wildfires, Tracy Nelson Maurer, tween readers, visual storytelling, watercolor, What to Expect When You're Expecting Joeys A Guide for Marsupial Parents (and Curious Kids), Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow, wildfires
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On the Brink
On the brink of a new year, I have been thinking of medieval explorers at the brink of unknown seas or lands. “Here be dragons or lions,” their mapmakers warned. As we enter 2020 here in the U.S., the little … Continue reading
Posted in graphic novels
Tagged 2020, Africa, autumn equinox, Chinua Achebe, colonialism, Congo, corruption, evil, fantasy, festivals, friendship, graphic adaptation, Heart of Darkness, Japan, Joseph Conrad, journeys, maps, New Year, Peter Kuper, President Trump, racism, Ryan Andrews, star map, This Was Our Pact, xenophobia
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Get Sets for the Holidays!
Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Christmas, Kwanzaa—whichever winter holidays you celebrate, sets of graphic books make great, generous gifts for young readers. Tweens in particular can take delight this holiday season not only in some sets already packaged by publishers but also … Continue reading
Posted in graphic novels, memoir, war
Tagged "Choose Kind" movement, "Never Again", 365 Days: Mr. Browne's Precepts, Andrew Donkin, Aphrodite, Athena, Augie & Me: Three Wonder Tales, Baby Mouse, Byron Eggenschwiler, child separation, Christmas, Drama, Eoin Colfer, France, genocide, George O'Connor, Ghosts, Giovanni Rigano, graphic novel sets, Greek gods, Greek myths, Guts, Hades, Hanukkah, Hera, Hey KIddo: How I Lost My Mother Found My Father and Dealt with Family Addiction, holiday gifts, Holocaust, Illegal, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Jennifer L. Holm, Jerry Kraft, Jews, Kevin Czap, Kwanzaa, Kyo Maclear, Matthew Holm, middle school, Nazis, New Kid, Olympians series, Operatic, polio-survivor, Poseidon, R.P. Palacio, Raina Telgemeier, religion, Rick Riordan, sisters, Smile, Sunny Rolls the Dice, Sunny Side Up, Tales from the Locker, today's refugees, tweens, White Bird: A Wonder Story, winter holidays, Winter Solstice, Wonder, World War II, Zeus
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In Season and Beyond
November 1 . . . Is it too late now for a great Halloween-based book? Similarly, once this November’s national Native American Heritage Month is over, will it seem out-of-step to read about our country’s first peoples? And just how … Continue reading
Posted in Books, graphic novels, story collection
Tagged Alicia Elliot, Annie Bannatyne, bisexuality, Canada, discrimination, Faith Erin Hicks, first peoples, friendship, Halloween, high school seniors, humor, indigenous peoples, interracial romance, Inuit, Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection, Nameless City trilogy, Native American Heritage Month, native peoples, Pumpkinheads, Rainbow Rowell, romance, shamanism, stereotypes, teenagers, This Place: 150 Years Retold, tribes, United States, windigos
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