Author Archives: rosinskynatalie

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

Looking Forward to History

Posted on September 1, 2019

A new school year brings serious fun to students! Young athletes and mathletes, robotics teams and academic decathlon squads, science fair and history day entrants are just some of the young folks who gear up each year for fun. But … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels, hybrid books | Tagged Abigail Adams Pirate of the Caribbean, Abraham Lincoln Pro Wrestler, Amelia Earhart and the Flying ChariotChario, American history, back to school, British history, convent, Dylan Meconis, fantasy, funny graphic novels, history, history mash-ups, humor, Jewish immigrant history, King George What Was HIs Problem: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the American Revolution, Nat Love and Neil Armstrong Space Cowboys, Neil Swaab, new school year, nuns, Queen Elizabeth I, Queen of the Sea, Rabbi Harvey: A Graphic Novel of Jewish Wit and Wisdom in the Wild West, Steve Sheinkin, surprising facts, Tim Robinson, time travel, Time Twisters series, Two Miserable Presidents: Everything Your School Books Didn't Tell You About the Civil War, Which Way to the Wild West: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About Westward Expansion | Leave a comment

Life’s Soundtracks

Posted on August 1, 2019

Which song could be the soundtrack of your life today? This question is posed to the 8th grade characters in Operatic (2019), a wonderful new graphic novel combining music history and biography with smart insights into the complex tween and … Continue reading →

Posted in biographies, graphic novels | Tagged 8th grade, Blinded by the Light, British, Bruce Springsteen, bullying, Byron Eggenschwiler, Canada, friendship, genderfluid, Greetings from Bury Park, homophobia, Kyo Maclear, Maria Callas, Master Class, memoir, middle school, movie, music, music history, opera, Operatic, Pakistani, rock music, Sarfraz Manzoor, soundtrack, teenager, teens, U.S. | Leave a comment

Fireworks or Fizzle?

Posted on July 1, 2019

Anticipating or recalling those 4th of July fireworks? Colorful blasts have been part of “Independence Day” celebrations ever since the U.S. Declaration of Independence supposedly was signed on July 4, 1776. Yet our new country’s continued growth is the exception … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels | Tagged Andy Warner, Arizona Mystery Castle, Auroville, Dean Kamen, Failed Utopias, Fourth of July, gay and lesbian, immigrant, immigrant detention, Intentional Communities, KIng Camp Gillette, Libertatia, Micronations, Nek Chand's Rock Garden, North Dumpling Island, Oneida, pirates, slavery, slaves, Sofie Louise Dam, strange dreams, This Land Is MY Land: A Graphic History of Big Dreams Micronations and Other Self-Made States, This Land Is Your Land song, Visonary Environments, Woody Guthrie | Leave a comment

The Anne Frank Industry

Posted on June 15, 2019

I was ready, site open and fingers poised, to purchase those “hot” on-line tickets, going on sale precisely at noon. One fumble and then . . . success! I had snagged our spots—tickets we would use exactly two months later, … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, graphic novels, memoir, war | Tagged Jeroen De Bruen | Leave a comment

In the Footsteps of Anne Frank

Posted on June 1, 2019

They were the hardest sets of stairs to climb. Last month in Amsterdam, I visited the Anne Frank House , since 1979 a museum commemorating that famous young victim of the Holocaust. Through the diary she left (and its later incarnations as … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, graphic novels, memoir | Tagged Amsterdam, Anne Frank, Anne Frank Fonds, Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation, Anne Frank: The Collected Works, Ari Folman, concentration camps, David Polonsky, Dutch collaborators, Dutch rescuers, Elie Wiesel, Holocaust, Jews, Margot Frank, Nazis, Otto Frank, The Anne Frank House, The Diary of a Young Girl, The Diary of Anne Frank, the Secret Annex, Where is Anne Frank? | Leave a comment

Moments to Remember

Posted on May 1, 2019

Private or public, some moments are seared into memory. I thought of this last month as images of Notre Dame blazed in the news. Its toppling spire also brought New York City’s falling Twin Towers to mind. Those images from … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels | Tagged Archie comics, astronauts, Black kids, cartooning, collective memory, fathers and sons, Jerry Craft, life cycle, memory, NASA, New Kid, New York City, Notre Dame, point of view, private memories, private school, public memories, racism, Riverdale, seventh grade, stereotypes, Through a Life, Tom Haugomat, Washington Heights, wordless books | Leave a comment