Emiko Superstar by Mariko Tamaki and Steve Rolston is this years Young Adult Graphic Novel Cybils winner. I’ll readily admit that I’m not well read in the graphic novel genre but I thought this book was really cute. I don’t think cute is exactly what Tamaki and Rolston were going after but I loved Emi’s [...]
I read Jellaby, written and illustrated by Kean Soo, for my Children’s Literature Book Club in which we were reading titles for this past year’s Cybils; Jellaby was shortlisted in the elementary/middle grade fiction graphic novel category.
My three year old picked up this book a lot while I had it sitting around. He liked the [...]
Chiggers by Hope Larson is a graphic novel geared for the young adult crowd and in all actuality, I don’t have much to say about it, so this will be a pretty short review.
Chiggers is about a group of girls who go to summer camp. It’s the same camp that Abby goes to every summer [...]
Shannon Hale’s newest adventure Rapunzel’s Revenge coauthored with her husband Dean Hale and illustrated by Nathan Hale (no relation) is taking the book world by storm! Why? First, it’s Shannon Hale. What’s not to love about Shannon? Second, it’s a awesome retelling of the Rapunzel story set as a western. Third, Rapunzel’s uses her long [...]
I read The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman simply because everybody told met that with my interest in Holocaust literature, I HAD to read it. So of course, I did.
If you are not familiar with The Complete Maus (Maus I and Maus II), let me briefly fill you in. It’s told in alternating viewpoints between [...]
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