Category Archives: hybrid books

Looking Forward to History

Posted on September 1, 2019 by rosinskynatalie

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

Great Graphic Gifts

Posted on December 1, 2018 by rosinskynatalie

Giving “experiences” rather than “things” is a trend this winter holiday season, making graphic literature a fashionable, two-for-one joy for the tween-and-up readers on your gift list. They can hold a volume in their hands, actively scanning between text and … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels, hybrid books | Tagged Auschwitz, Brian Selznick, concentration camps, demonizing enemies, displaced persons camps, elves, Eugene Yelchin, goblins, holiday gifts, Holocaust, humor, hybrid graphic novel, hybrid novel, Judaism, M.T. Anderson, music, opera, spying, survivors, The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge, Vesper Stamper, war, What the Night Sings | Leave a comment

Of Mice and Middle School

Posted on March 1, 2018 by rosinskynatalie

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 | 1 Comment

Teachable Moments

Posted on June 1, 2016 by rosinskynatalie

Now that it is summer vacation time in North America, more of our young people’s teachable moments will take place outside of school. Graphic works can play a part in the lessons they learn—especially in areas often given shorter shrift … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels, hybrid books, picture books, Uncategorized | Tagged all ages, animal transformation, Banksy, Birdsong: A Story in Pictures, brothers and sisters, cross-dressing, E. Eeero Johnson, early readers, empathy, gender fluidity, gender identiy, high school students, humor, James Sturm, K-1st grade, Kamishibai, Kirstin Cronn-Mills, life lessons, Minneapolis, Original Fake, peformance art, sexual orientation, storytelling, summer reading, teenagers | Leave a comment

The Marvels and Pleasures of Rereading

Posted on November 1, 2015 by rosinskynatalie

I am smiling as I sit down today to share thoughts inspired by The Marvels (2015), the newest beautiful book by award-winning author/illustrator Brian Selznick. The Marvels continues the hybrid format—interspersing pages of prose with pages of wordless visual narrative—that … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels, hybrid books, picture books | Tagged A Wrinkle in Time, AIDS epidemic, Brian Selznick, British characters, compulsive rereading, Deaf Culture, deaf education, Dennis Severs House, early movie history, Great Expectations, Gunflint Trail, Hugo, hybrid novel, Kidnapped, London, Martin Scorsese, Minnesota, picture book, rereading, Shakespeare, The Adventures of Hugo Cabret, The Boy of a Thousand Faces, The Hugo Movie Companion: A Behind the Scenes Look at How a Beloved Book Became a Major Motion Picture, The Marvels, tween and teen readers, Wonderstruck, wordless storytelling | Leave a comment