Walk into any bookstore or library or classroom and you’ll see kids reading graphic novels. Taking up an increasingly larger shelf-space, graphic novels are gorgeous hybrids of traditional books and traditional art. Want an incredible story? Want to develop your reading skills and your visual literacy? Want pretty art? Bam: graphic novels give you everything […]
As a former children’s librarian at the New York Public Library, and the co-author of Wild Things! Acts of Mischief in Children’s Literature, Betsy Bird knows funny and books. In Funny Girls: Funniest. Stories. Ever, she’s gathered together more than 25 of the most hilarious women in children’s literature for a collection that proves boys don’t […]
Rise of the Isle of the Lost is on B&N bookshelves May 23.
Here’s a fun bunch of new graphic novels that will get your kids off to a great start with summer reading! Does your young reader love graphic novels?
Real friends. We’ve all had them or tried to find them; we’ve thought we had them and realized we didn’t; we’ve even been them or completely missed the mark. The concept of real friends is a complicated beast and bestselling author Shannon Hale tackles it with honesty, grace, and humor in her graphic memoir which […]