Tag: YA Lesson Plans

Lead Collection & Knowledge Management Librarian Matthew Noe provides a review and lesson plan for graphic novels.

6,000 MILES TO FREEDOM Published by: Graphic Mundi Created by: Stéphane Marchetti and Cyrille Pomès / Translated by Hannah Chute ISBN: 9781637790212 Ages: 16+ Review Imagine you’re 12 years old. Now imagine that your father dies and suddenly your most fundamentalist, unwelcome anywhere but during Thanksgiving dinner uncle is in control of your life. Now…

CLEMENTINE BOOK 1 Published by: Image Comics Created by: Tillie Walden ISBN: 9781534321281 Ages: 14+ Review I’m going to admit something that may make readers of this review scoff and quit: I have never exactly been a fan of The Walking Dead. I found the show boring, I read the first two trades of the…

SAPIENS: A GRAPHIC HISOTRY Published by: Harper Perennial Created by: Yuval Noah Harari / David Vandermeulen / Daniel Casanave ISBN: 9780063051331 (volume 1) / 9780063212237 (volume 2) Ages: 13+ Review Graphic adaptations of books are a hit-or-miss affair. In far too many examples, rather than adapt the narrative or information to the medium, these adaptations…

DID YOU HEAR WHAT EDDIE GEIN DONE? Published by: Albatross Funnybooks Created by: Harold Schechter / Eric Powell ISBN: 9781949889048 Ages: 17 Review Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? tells the story of infamous serial killer Eddie Gein, following him from his traumatic childhood through until his death in a Wisconsin mental health institute….

THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO COMIC BOOK LETTERING Published by: Image Comics Created by: Nate Piekos ISBN: 9781534319950 Ages: 13+ Review With The Essential Guide to Comic Book Lettering, award-winning letter Nate Piekos has written what is sure to be a staple of the lettering trade for years to come. That’s the tweet-length version of my…

LETTERS FROM ANIMALS Published by: Magnetic PressCreated by: Frédéric Brréemaud / Giovanni Rigano / Allain Bourgrain-DubourgISBN: 9781951719197Ages: 11+ Review Letters from Animals is a collection of short comics written from the perspective of a member of one of more than fifteen species, with each letter aiming to engender empathy, inform the reader of their plight,…

TWO-WEEK WAIT: AN I.V.F. STORY Published by: Scribe PublicationsCreated by: Luke C. Jackson / Kelly Jackson / Mara WildISBN: 9781950354634Ages: 16+ Review Two-Week Wait is an unflinchingly honest, emotional rollercoaster (yes, I know, but it is accurate here) of a story following Conrad and Joanne on their process to conceive a child using in vitro…

Crossover Volume 1 Published by: Image ComicsCreated by: Donny Cates / Geoff Shaw / Dee Cunniffe / John J. HillISBN: 9781534318939Ages: 16+ Review Crossover is the definition of getting meta with your storytelling, pulling in dozens of characters from other comics properties (some less explicitly than others; probably hard to get DC to let you…