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Tag Archives: TOON Books
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
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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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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
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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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Let’s Be Visually Literate!
“Comics are the gateway drug to literacy.” This remark by Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the graphic memoir Maus, A Survivor’s Tale (1980-1991), is not as controversial nowadays as it would have been in the 1950s. Back then, some … Continue reading
Posted in comics, graphic novels, picture books
Tagged A Birthday Cake for George Washington, Alan Moore, Art Spiegelman, black face, book burning, Carol Borden, Comixology, cultural literacy, Daniel Torres, diversity, Ebony White, Fagin the Jew, Francoise Mouly, Gilbert Stuart, Hansel & Gretel, Hercules, Jet Heer, Liniers, Lorenzo Mattotti, minstrel show, Neil Gaiman, Nick Sousanis, racial stereotypes, Ramin Ganeshram, reading curriculum, reluctant readers, Scholastic, Scott McCloud, The Spirit: A Celebration of 75 Years, The Spirit: The New Adventures, TOON Books, Understanding Comics, Unflattening, Vanessa Brantley-Newton, visual literacy, Will Eisner, Written and Drawn by Henrietta
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