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Author Archives: rosinskynatalie
Of Mice and Middle School
Babymouse is growing up! I recently learned that the perky heroine of twenty graphic novels for young kids started this school year as a middle schooler. Yet the safe haven that school provides this fantasy character is not what students actually … Continue reading
Posted in graphic novels, hybrid books
Tagged Babymouse, Babymouse Tales from the Locker, Forgive Me Leonard Peacock, friendship, Gail Sidonie Sobat, growing up, guns, humorous books, hybrid novel, Jamie's Got a Gun, Jennifer L. Holm, Kerlan Award, Lights Camera Middle School!, Matthew Holm, Matthew Quick, Miss Communication, Mouseketeers, Parkland Florida, school shootings, Shaun David Hutchinson, Spyder Yardley-Jones, teen age shooter, Violent Ends: A Novel in Seventeen Points of View
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In War and Peace
What happens when peacetime resembles war? I will be pondering this question in coming weeks as we celebrate Black History Month, also known as African-American History Month here in the U.S.A. This year there will be a special focus on the … Continue reading
Posted in graphic novels, war
Tagged "Hamlet", African-American History Month, All-American Boys, Amadou Diallo, Angie Thomas, Anthony Baez, Black History month, Black Lives Matter, Brendan Kiely, Canaan White, Damian Duffy, Eleanor Bumpurs, Harlem, Henry Dumas, hip-hop "Hamlet", How It Went Down, I Am Alfonso Jones, Jason Reynolds, John Jennings, Kekla Magoon, Kindred, Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, Max Brooks, Michael Stewart, New York City, Octavia Butler, police violence, racism, Sergeant Henry Johnson, Stacey Robinson, teenager, The Harlem Hellfighters, The Hate U Give, Tony Medina, World War I
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Celebrating a New Year
Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. These words from a Tennyson poem are one traditional New Year’s … Continue reading
Posted in Books, comics
Tagged African American, Afro-Latino, anti-globalism, Bat Man, Chinese Superman, Chinese-American, DC comics, DC superheroes, diverse superheroes., Flash, Gene Luen Yang, globalism, I-Ching, January 1, Justice League of China, Kamala Khan, Kenneth Grahame, Kij Johnson, Kong Kenan, Lunella Lafayette, Miles Morales, Moon Girl, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Ms. Marvel, Muslim, New Super-Man Volume 1: Made in China, New Super-Man Volume 2: Coming to American, New Super-Man Volume 3: Equilibrium, New Year celebration, Pakistani-American, President Trump, rewritten classics, Richard Friend, Shanghai, Sonny Liew, Spider Man, teenage Superman, Tennyson, The River Bank: A Sequel to the Wind in the Willows, The Shadow Hero, The Wind in the Willows, Viktor Bogdanovic, Wonder Woman
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Holy Lands
One Navajo, one Jew: two distinct “holy lands.” Our recent ten day sojourn in Santa Fe, New Mexico reminded me of how culture and personal vision determine which particular portions of Mother Earth we hold sacred. Writing from the small … Continue reading
Posted in articles
Tagged Abiquiu, adobe house, Ayelet Waldman, Bears Ears National Monument, cathedral, Catholic missionaries, Christianity, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Georgia O'Keefe, holy land, Israel, Judaism, KIngdom of Olives and Ash:Writers Confront the Holocaust, kivas, Michael Chabon, missionaries, Muslim, Native American, Navajo, New Mexico, non-Christian gods, Palestinian, Pecos National Monument, President Trump, proselytizing, Pueblo, religion, sacred, Saint Kateria Tekawitha, Santa Fe, secular, secular humanism, Spanish priests, Temple Mount, The Yiddish Policeman's Union, Willa Cather
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Korean Tales
North Korea remains forefront in U.S. news, as both countries’ boastful, ambitious leaders toy childishly with nuclear threats. We here in the U.S. can only hope and work within our political system to avert such disaster. Novels such as Adam … Continue reading
Posted in graphic novels, manga
Tagged Adam Johnson, adolescence, Booklist"s Top Ten Graphic Novels for Youth, fantasy, frequently challenged book, goblins, Hangul, Julie Kim, Kim Dong Hwa, Korea, Korean American, Korean folk tales, Korean folklore, manhwa, Moon Rabbit, mother-daughter relationship, nine-tailed fox, North Korean, Sejong Cultural Society, sex, sexuality, South Korea, The Color of Earth, The Color of Heaven, The Color of Water, The Orphan Master's Son, Where's Halmoni, writing competition, YALSA Top Ten Graphic Novels for Teens
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