With winter break a week away, kids are no doubt looking forward to coming holidays. Keep them entertained with titles from this week’s list! Sonic the Hedgehog from Archie Comics starts a new story arc featuring frenemy Knuckles. Scooby Doo and the gang have a seasonal issue as they help save a Chanukah celebration from [...]
All ages comics and manga for 12/05/12
By on December 7, 2012
With winter break a week away, kids are no doubt looking forward to coming holidays. Keep them entertained with titles from this week’s list! Sonic the Hedgehog from Archie Comics starts a new story arc featuring frenemy Knuckles. Scooby Doo and the gang have a seasonal issue as they help save a Chanukah celebration from [...]
Guest Post by Emily Weisenstein and Joseph Gasparro… Superheroes, Branding, and Libraries (Part 2)
By on December 7, 2012
Guest Post by Emily Weisenstein and Joseph Gasparro… Superheroes, Branding, and Libraries (Part 1)
By on December 5, 2012
Review: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic #1
By on December 4, 2012
All ages comics and manga for 11/28/12
By on November 30, 2012
As November disappears into the rear view mirror, we look ahead to Christmas and find books on this week’s list to put under the tree or to distract prying eyes. Archie Comics releases the next volume in the Sonic The Hedgehog Archives, and Kodansha continues its release of the manga adaptation of the tween adventure [...]
All ages comics and manga for 11/21/12
By on November 24, 2012
Fight off (or speed up) that turkey coma with some titles from this week’s list! Archie Comics releases a special issue of their quarterly magazine Sonic Super Special with an issue of pull-out posters of Sonic and his friends. Kodansha releases another volume of their kid friendly title Animal Land, and Marvel Comics releases two [...]
Guest Post by Christopher Shamburg… When the Lit Hits the Fan in Teacher Education
By on November 23, 2012
All ages comics and manga for 11/14/12
By on November 16, 2012
Start planning for rewarding those good little boys and girls now, with some titles from this week’s list! IDW has the collected issues of their prequel to the movie Dorothy of Oz scheduled to come out next year. Marvel Comics collects their Toy Story prequel comic to Toy Story 2, Tales From the Toy Chest, [...]
Review: Amethyst: Princess of Gemworld #1-12
By on November 13, 2012
Amy Winston is just a normal girl, until she receives a gemstone for her 13th birthday—an amethyst. Almost immediately her life is turned upside down as she is taken to another dimension where time passes differently and magical isn’t just real, but as normal as breathing. While there, she learns that she might not be [...]
Reading is a Superpower! Comic Books, Graphic Novels, & Literacy
By on November 9, 2012 Leave a Comment
Tuesday, December 4, 2012, 3:00 – 4:00 PM ET This webcast will feature a report on the 10-school pilot program ABDO led with elementary students and staff in a California district, using their Marvel Age comic books and graphic novels, eBooks, and teachers guides in a weeks-long “comic con” with the kids creating their own superheroes and stories based on the books. Archive is now available!
All ages comics and manga for 11/7/12
By on November 9, 2012
Begin the holiday season with felines from this week’s new releases. Get a double dose of Garfield as Boom! Studios lets the large orange cat loose on Thanksgiving dinner in the latest issue of their ongoing series, while Papercutz has him coming Home for the Holidays in their graphic novel series. If you prefer your [...]
Book Giveaway: Totally MAD — 60 Years of Humor, Satire, Stupidity and Stupidity
By on November 2, 2012
All ages comics and manga for 10/31/12
By on November 2, 2012
With Halloween come and gone, the end of the year looms ever closer, as does that final holiday, Christmas. Start preparing for it with some of the graphic novels on this week’s list. Amulet Books has the next volume in the popular series Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite. Ape Entertainment has another Dreamsworks tie-in, [...]
“Are Zombies Good for Kids?”: A Lively Roundtable
By on October 27, 2012
Fusenews: Paddington V. Pooh (supporters could call themselves marmalites and hunnies)
By on October 25, 2012
You folks have been awfully good about my recent shoddy blogging, so I tip my hat in your general direction. Jules of 7-Imp and I are putting the final touches on our book for Candlewick editing-wise and, as you might imagine, it eats up large swaths of time like an irate and hungry badger. There [...]
All ages comics and manga for 10/17/12
By on October 19, 2012
Even though the calendar says it’s autumn, the weather hasn’t gotten the memo. Oni Press is trying to get that chill in the air with the next issue of the spooky Courtney Crumrin ongoing series. Papercutz has some knuckleheads take on a Christmas classic with the second volume of the Three Stooges, and even Marvel [...]
All ages comics and manga for 10/10/12
By on October 12, 2012
October is the time for the weird and wacky, and there’s plenty of both on this week’s list. Drawn and Quarterly releases the first volume of long time childhood favorite Pippi Longstocking, making her graphic novel debut in English! Kids Can Press introduces Bigfoot Boy in his first graphic novel, and Papercutz has the next [...]
New York Comic Con 2012: Highlights from the ALA-Sponsored Sessions
By on October 12, 2012
Megan Kociolek: “Libraries are mystical places…”
