Drawing Conclusions: The Walking Dead

2014-03-15T18:41:50-04:00

I first made the acquaintance of the series during my first Dewey's Read-a-Thon, when I was looking for graphic novels to entertain Mr. BIP; we've both become completely hooked. I was struck by the comments in the introduction, including this one: “This is a very character driven endeavor.

Drawing Conclusions: The Walking Dead2014-03-15T18:41:50-04:00

Drawing Conclusions: Three Graphic Works

2014-03-15T18:41:06-04:00

Shaun Tan’s The Arrival Arthur A. Levine Books - Scholastic Books, 2006 The wordless images in The Arrival are often breath-taking, sometimes sad and always evocative. (You can see one of them here, on the author's page.) Tan says: "I see each book as an experiment in visual and written narrative,

Drawing Conclusions: Three Graphic Works2014-03-15T18:41:06-04:00

An Assortment of Teenlit: Four Books

2014-03-15T18:20:49-04:00

Aristophane’s The Zabîme Sisters Trans. Matt Madden (2010) This was the happy product of a browsing session on a summer day that found me seeking the relief of the public library's A/C. I brought it home and took it to bed on a still-too-hot night, the sort when you really

An Assortment of Teenlit: Four Books2014-03-15T18:20:49-04:00

An Assortment of Kidlit: Four Books

2014-03-15T18:19:40-04:00

A giraffe and a cat. Origami gone wild. A fantastic book of transformative tales. A word-lovin' ol' woman, and a sword-wielding girl. The first of these two came to me via Shelagh Rogers' The Next Chapter on CBC. (It's worth repeating; her enthusiasm about all kinds of storytelling is wholly contagious.)

An Assortment of Kidlit: Four Books2014-03-15T18:19:40-04:00

Aya: On the Ivory Coast, 1978

2014-03-15T16:57:32-04:00

Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie's Aya de Yopougon  Trans. Helge Dascher Gallimard, 2005 978-2-07-057311-7 (Available as Aya in English) Over the past summer, I was exploring library branches that I had never visited before and it was at one of those that I made Aya’s acquaintance.This new bookish territory not only took

Aya: On the Ivory Coast, 19782014-03-15T16:57:32-04:00
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