Recently a coworker asked us to send some of our favorite Banned and Challenged book titles and a little snippet about it and/or why we love it. I emailed her back and said did she want them alphabetically, order of importance or just my favorite? How did I approach it? I thought, send a few favorite author(s), but that was too many. Just every book I read that has been B-and/or-C? Way too many to do. Therefore I said “Make it simple.” And found a […]
Four Kids and a Comic Club
The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel by Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud
If you are looking for a good graphic novelist, Raina Telgemeier is one to check out. However, she usually writes for the 10 and up crowd, but with The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel (along with Scott McCloud) she has hit the slightly younger aged 8 to 12 range a little more solidly. The format is a mixture of a story (four friends, who started out mostly not knowing each other, form a comic book club so they can make comics) and factual information about […]
The 1980s called and got the right 2000 number
The Baby-Sisters Club The Truth About Stacey V02 by Raina Telgemeier
The Baby-Sitters Club Mary Anne Saves the Day V03 by Raina Telgemeier
Some of us might have read Ann M. Martin as a young kid. This would have been the 1980s and 1990s. I missed her Baby-Sitters Club original run (my younger sister was a fan), but I have enjoyed her 21st century contributions to the world of literature. When Raina Telgemeier took over the series for a graphic novel adaptation, I gave them a shot. I have read three or four of the main stories, and one or two of a companion series, and figured they […]
Nostalgic favorite brought lovingly into a new format
Kristy's Great Idea: The Baby-Sitters Club by Raina Telgemeier, based on Ann M. Martin's novel
My youngest, 9, does not care to read chapter books and so she isn’t interested in reading the same things her older sister did at the same age. However, she loves reading in comic form, be it manga, comics, or graphic novels. So the challenge is to find her new reading material. She loves Raina Telgemeier so I decided to take a chance on Raina’s graphic novel adaptation of Ann M. Martin’s Kristy’s Great Idea, book one of The Baby-Sitters Club series. I was a […]
“Guts” delivers and important message to younger readers about mind/body connection
Guts by Raina Telgemeier
Raina Telgemeier returns to the autobiographical in Guts. I’m late to the party on this book as my 13 and 9 year old have read it multiple times since its release in 2019. For those familiar with Telgemeier’s autobiographical graphic novels, this is a story in which Raina is younger than in Smile or Sisters. She’s in fifth grade and has begun having stomach troubles. It started with a round of stomach flu going through her family and school. But afterward Raina begins to obsess about the […]
One gutsy kid
Guts by Raina Telgemeier
Guts is a graphic novel by Raina Telgemeier that is right up there with her other books. Her classic writing style of charm, realism, humor and basing events on her own experiences, Guts is a great book for the fan of Telgemeier. If there is one issue with the book, it is that it is just like Telgemeirer’s other books. Though the subject matter is different (this time Telgemeier talks about the times she was learning about her anxiety and fears and the effects it […]