Tag Archives: Halloween

In Season and Beyond

Posted on November 1, 2019 by rosinskynatalie

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

Beyond Halloween Thrills

Posted on October 1, 2018 by rosinskynatalie

Heralding Halloween, plastic ghosts and ghouls materialized on some front porches back in September. This horde will rapidly increase–adding movie monsters, comic book creatures, and graveyard trappings—as October 31 approaches. Yet the truly terrifying may not be what we see … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels, story collection | Tagged Baba Yaga's Assistant, blended families, Bluebeard, Emily Carroll, fairy tales, fantasy, Halloween, horror, Laurie Halse Anderson, Marika McCoola, rape, recovering from rape, Red Riding Hood, sexual violence, Speak, Speak: The Graphic Novel, stories, supernatural, suspense, terror, Through the Woods | Leave a comment

Lively Looks at the Day of the Dead

Posted on October 1, 2016 by rosinskynatalie

A spirited crowd welcomed author/illustrator Raina Telgemeier to the Twin Cities the other week. Tweens in family and class groups filled a large university auditorium, excited to meet the popular, award-winning cartoonist, on national tour to promote her brand-new graphic … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels, picture books | Tagged award winner, Aztec heritage, Braden Lamb, calaveras, California, cystic fibrosis, Day of the Dead, death, Dia de Los Muertos, Dia de Muertos, Duncan Tonatiuh, engraving, etching, Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras, Ghosts, Halloween, holiday celebrations, humor, Jose Guadalupe Posada, lithography, Mexican-American, Mexico, Raina Telgemeier, satirical art, sisters, skeleton, skull, supernatural | Leave a comment

Refugees: Haunting Thoughts at Halloween

Posted on October 2, 2015 by rosinskynatalie

Nowadays, Halloween is a time for kids to play at being scared or scary. Wearing fierce masks or dressing up as superheroes, children reassure themselves that monsters do not exist and that they themselves can be powerful. There is really … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels | Tagged "The Unwanted", A Game of Swallows, Alexis Siegel, Annemarie Young, Anthony Robinson, atheism, Chechnya, child refugees, Congo, elementary school, France, Gervelie's Journey: A Refugee Diary, Greg Salsado, Halloween, Hamzat's Journey: A Refugee Diary, Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust, Hungary, I Remember Beirut, Iraq, Jews, Joe Sacco, June Allan, Kurdish, Lebanese Civil War, Lebanon, Loic Dauvillier, loss of faith, Malta, Marc Brown, Marc Lizano, Meltem's Journey: A Refugee Diary, Mildred Batchelder Award, Miriam Katin, Mohammed's Journey: A Refugee Diary, R.L. Stine, refugees, Seeking Refuge, Soviet, Sydney Taylor Book Award, The Little Shop of Monsters, Turkey, We Are On Our Own, World War II, Zeina Abirached | Leave a comment

Tricks and Treats? Some Serious Holiday Fun

Posted on October 7, 2014 by rosinskynatalie

Today’s trick-or-treaters may not know the serious origins of this fun-filled tradition. Their masks and costumes began as disguises for All Hallows’ Eve (now Halloween), the time when ghosts, demons, and other supernatural creatures supposedly could slip easily from their … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels | Tagged All Hallow's Eve, Benjamin Dewey, cats, Charles Perrault, criminal mastermind, Danny Dragonbreath: No Such Thing as Ghosts, demon, Digger: The Complete Omnibus Edition, fantasy, Ganesha, Halloween, hero's quest, Hugo Award, hyena, I Was the Cat, Lloyd Alexander, Mythopoeic Award, nine lives, Paul Tobin, Time Cat., Ursula Vernon, warriors, webzine, wombat | Leave a comment