Eyes of the Storm (1994, Book Three) The Dragonslayer (1995, Book Four) Rock Jaw: Master of the Eastern Border(1997, Book Five) Yesterday I chatted about the the first three books in Jeff Smith’s Bone series (beginning with the wonderful prequel, Rose): no spoilers, so do have a peek here. Bone
Jeff Smith's Rose (2002, Prequel) Out from Boneville (1991, Book One) The Great Cow Race(1993, Book Two) Okay, I admit it. I didn’t want to read these. He looks like Caspar the Friendly Ghost, eh?And even though Caspar was one of my favourite characters when I was seven years old,
Jeff Lemire’s Essex County (Collected) Top Shelf Productions, 2010 Here’s what I scribbled in my notebook when I finished reading Tales From the Farm in 2008: The first in Jeff Lemire’s Essex County trilogy feels in some ways like the antithesis to [Craig Thompson’s] Blankets – a very slim volume, with
Sarah Leavitt’s Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer’s, My Mother and Me Freehand Books, 2010 It’s not just a problem for the curly-headed folks: even with straight hair, there are tangles, knots, and snarls. Everybody can relate to the struggle to make a course smooth once more. And these days, increasingly
Hope Larson's Mercury Simon & Schuster, 2010 I read Hope Larson's Chiggers in 2008; I'd seen it on a list somewhere (Graphic Novels You Can't Miss, that kind of thing) and I think I was expecting a combination of Little Darlings with an Enid Blyton summer adventure story, and the
