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Laws and Orders

Posted on June 29, 2020

The death here in Minnesota of George Floyd has sparked world-wide protests against police brutality and racism, with people demanding new laws and orders to protect every person’s civil rights. History has shown that “law and order” political leaders such … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels, memoir | Tagged Afua Richardson, Andrew Aydin, autobigoraphy, civil rights, Civil Rights Act of 1964, George Floyd, George Takei, Harmony Becker, institutional racism, internment, internment camps, Japanese-Americans, Justin Eisinger, Lieutenant Sulu, March Book One, March Book Three, March Book Two, memoir, Mine Okubo, Minnesota, murder, Nate Powell, National Japanese American Museum, police brutality, President Barack Obama, President Trump, Presidential Order 9066, protests, racism, relocation, Representative John Lewis, Run, sequel to March, Star Trek, Steven Scott, They Called Us Enemy, Voting Rights Act, World War II | Leave a comment

Outdoor Art with Heart

Posted on May 28, 2020

Heartfelt messages to neighbors and neighborhood heroes have brightened many of today’s pandemic city views. Drawing with chalk, kids have decorated sidewalks, driveways, and even walls with scenes and words to celebrate people and events such as birthdays and graduations. … Continue reading →

Posted in biographies, Books, picture books | Tagged A Map into the World, AIDS, Bill Thomson, celebrations, Chalk, chalk art, Covid-19, grandmother, Hmong, Hmong American, Kao Kalia Yang, Kay A. Haring, Keith Haring, Keith Haring The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing, Khoa Le, Minnesota Book Award, neighborhood, neighborhood heroes, neighbors, outdoor art, outdoor artist, Pandemic, pop art, refugees, Robert Neubecker, Seo Kim, sibling death, sidewalk art, sidewalk chalk drawing, story cloth, street art, The Art of Chalk Techniques and Inspiration for Creating Art with Chalk, The Most Beautiful Thing, The Shared Room, Tracy Lee Sturm, Xee Reiter | 2 Comments

Asian – American Heroes, Hopes, and Hurts

Posted on May 1, 2020

This is an important time to look at graphic works depicting Asian-American heroes, hopes, and hurts. The Covid-19 pandemic has spread some virulent ideas along with its deadly virus. Once-common stereotypes and fears about Asian–Americans, in particular Chinese-Americans, have flared … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, comic book collection, graphic novels, memoir | Tagged "New Superman", American Born Chinese, Andie Tong, Asian - American superheroes, Asian- Americans, basketball, basketball history, Billie Tan, Boxers and Saints, Brent Peeples, Chinese - Americans, Chinese Justice League, Chinese Superman, Chinese virus, Clan of the Fiery Cross, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Dan Santat, discrimination, Dragon Hoops, Drawn Together, Fu Manchu, Gene Luen Yang, Girihuru, grandmother, grandparents, Green Lantern comics, hajib, heroes, immigrant, Jade Lantern Legacy, Ku Klux Klan, Lark Pien, Mariko Tamaki, Minh Le, New Superman: Equilibrium, New-Superman and the Justice League of China, non-fiction graphic novel, Pandemic, racism, refugees, Sarah Stern, Sonny Liew, stereotypes, superheroes, Superman, Superman radio series, Superman Smashes the Klan, Taoism, tween - age, Vietnamese refugees, Vietnamese-American, Wuhan flu, yin - yang | Leave a comment

Pandemic! One Hundred Years Later

Posted on April 1, 2020

One hundred years from now, what will people be reading about today’s Coronavirus pandemic? While the full dire impact of Covid-19 is still unfolding, such a long-range perspective on pandemics can inform and possibly comfort some of us. Such stories … Continue reading →

Posted in catastrophe, graphic novels | Tagged 1918 Flu, 1918 Pandemic, African-American nurses, Bob Brown, Coronavirus, Covid-19, desegregation, doctors, epidemic, Fever Year, Fever Year The Killer Flu of 1918, influenza, influenza epidemic, nurses, Pandemic, segregation, Spanish flu, The Notorious Izzy Frink, The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees, tween readers, tweens, World War I | Leave a comment

And the Winner Is

Posted on March 1, 2020

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 | Leave a comment

On Fire

Posted on February 1, 2020

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 | Leave a comment

On the Brink

Posted on January 1, 2020

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 | Leave a comment

Get Sets for the Holidays!

Posted on December 1, 2019

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 | Leave a comment

In Season and Beyond

Posted on November 1, 2019

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 | Leave a comment

It Takes Guts!

Posted on October 1, 2019

It takes guts to face one’s fears! But this effort is worthwhile . . . even if the results may take time. This realization is the focus of author/ illustrator Raina Telgemeier’s new graphic memoir Guts (2019, color by Braden … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels, memoir | Tagged anxiety, Baby Sitters Club graphic adaptation, Braden Lamb, diarrhea, fears, fifth grade, fourth grade, grounding techniques, Guts, middle school, nausea, puberty, puking, sensitive stomach, Share Your Smile: Raina's Guide to Telling Your story, sisters, Smile, stress, Telgemeier "how-to" book, Telgemeier graphic novels, therapy, vomiting, worries | Leave a comment

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