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Category Archives: Books
Graphic Insights into Racism
Since George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis last May, public outcries have re-focused attention on the injustices that a few years ago triggered today’s Black Lives Matter movement. For readers tween and up, that movement’s emotional center and origins are embodied … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American, Alitha E. Martinez, Amidou Diallo, Audubon On the Wings of the World, Audubon Society, bird-watching, Black Birders Week, Black Lives Matter, Black Panther, Black Panther: World of Wakanda, Breonna Taylor, Chadwick Boseman, Christian Cooper, comic book short story, DC comics, George Floyd, graphic short story, Huntington's Chorea, I Am Alfonso Jones, institutional racism, institutional violence, It's a Bird . . ., It's a Bird short story, John Jennings, magical realism, Marvel Comics, Northstar, police, police violence, racial stereotypes, racism, Represent!, Roxanne Gay, semi-autobiographical graphic novel, Stacey Robinson, superhero, Superman, Teddy Krisitiansen, teenage character, Tony Medina
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In School or At Home–Go Graphic!
As this new school year begins so uncertainly, with COVID-19 affecting where and how youngsters learn their official lessons, I have a new resource to recommend. Ivan Brunetti’s Comics: Easy as ABC! The Essential Guide to Comics for Kids (2019) … Continue reading
Posted in Books, comics
Tagged at home, Black Heroes of the Wild West, Booklist Top 10 Art Books for Youth, Chris Ware, classroom, comics language, Comics: Easy as ABC!, Comics: Easy as ABC! The Essential Guide to Comics for Kids, Covid-19, drawing, Eisner Award for Best Publication for Early Readers, elementary age-readers, grades 1 and 2, grades 3 to 6, graphic novels, in school, Ivan Brunetti, James Otis Smith, James Sturm, Jeff Smith, K/grade 1, Kadir Nelson, Kevin McClosky, lettering, librarians, Neil Gaiman, panels, parents, parents as teachers, point of view, reading comics with kids, reading levels, Roz Chast, short strips, teachers, TOON Books
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Lifting Spirits
Pandemic dangers and safety limits . . . uncertainties about the shape of the upcoming school year—it remains hard to be upbeat when these woes press us down. Low spirits, of course, affect kids as well as adults. Two recent … Continue reading
Posted in Books, picture books
Tagged A Map into the World, Asian-American, brother-sister relationships, brothers and sisters, C.S. Lewis, Caldecott award-winning, Covid-19 anxiety, Covid-19 depression, Dan Santat, death of child, Drawn Together, elementary age-readers, fantasy, Hmong, humor, Kao Kalia Yang, Khoa Le, Lift, Minh Le, Minnesota, Narnia, pandemic anxiety, pandemic dangers, pandemic depression, picture book, school reopening, Seo Kim, sibling relationships, siblings, Thai-American, The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend, The Most Beautiful Thing in the World, The Shared Room, upcoming school year, Xee Reiter
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Outdoor Art with Heart
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
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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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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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The Anne Frank Industry
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
In the Footsteps of Anne Frank
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?
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