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From: Emily Townsend <etownsend_at_wisc.edu>
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 08:38:39 -0600
It's time to start our November discussion topic: Graphic Novels: A Powerful Medium for Fiction and Fact
The second part of November we'll be discussing :/
//Boxers/**and**/Saints/**written and illustrated by Gene Luen Yang
(First Second, 2013)
/El Deafo/ written and illustrated by Cece Bell (Amulet Books, 2014)
Cece Bell will joining us mid-November to answer questions about /El Deafo/.
In many ways, I see this conversation as an extension of or corollary to our September CCBC-net discussion, Reading Pictures: Visual Literacy through Picture Books. There's definitely a difference between picture books and graphic novels, but both engage the reader visually and help to build visual literacy. And, we could easily pose similar questions from the September discussion: What and how to children learn from the visual images in graphic novel texts? In today's digital world, what do graphic novels offer when it comes to understanding visual entertainment and information? What books or types of books do you find children visually drawn to?
We're also interested in trends you've noticed in graphic novels or in your student's and patron's engagement with them. In recent years, some of the graphic novels that I've found most powerful are autobiographical stories. While some are closer to straight up fact like Craig Thompson's
/Blankets/ and /March, Book One/ by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, other autobiographical GN's such Gene Luen Yang's /American Born Chinese/ and Cece Bell's /El Deafo/ are imbibed with fictional elements. What graphic novels have appealed to you, your student or your patrons? Have these graphic novels been based on historical events, fantasy, science, super heroes, or something completely different? Let us know!
Thanks! Emily
Emily Townsend, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Room 401 Teacher Education 225 N. Mills Street Madison, WI 53706
608-890-0258 etownsend_at_wisc.edu <mailto:etownsend_at_wisc.edu>
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Received on Fri 07 Nov 2014 08:39:05 AM CST
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 08:38:39 -0600
It's time to start our November discussion topic: Graphic Novels: A Powerful Medium for Fiction and Fact
The second part of November we'll be discussing :/
//Boxers/**and**/Saints/**written and illustrated by Gene Luen Yang
(First Second, 2013)
/El Deafo/ written and illustrated by Cece Bell (Amulet Books, 2014)
Cece Bell will joining us mid-November to answer questions about /El Deafo/.
In many ways, I see this conversation as an extension of or corollary to our September CCBC-net discussion, Reading Pictures: Visual Literacy through Picture Books. There's definitely a difference between picture books and graphic novels, but both engage the reader visually and help to build visual literacy. And, we could easily pose similar questions from the September discussion: What and how to children learn from the visual images in graphic novel texts? In today's digital world, what do graphic novels offer when it comes to understanding visual entertainment and information? What books or types of books do you find children visually drawn to?
We're also interested in trends you've noticed in graphic novels or in your student's and patron's engagement with them. In recent years, some of the graphic novels that I've found most powerful are autobiographical stories. While some are closer to straight up fact like Craig Thompson's
/Blankets/ and /March, Book One/ by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, other autobiographical GN's such Gene Luen Yang's /American Born Chinese/ and Cece Bell's /El Deafo/ are imbibed with fictional elements. What graphic novels have appealed to you, your student or your patrons? Have these graphic novels been based on historical events, fantasy, science, super heroes, or something completely different? Let us know!
Thanks! Emily
Emily Townsend, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Room 401 Teacher Education 225 N. Mills Street Madison, WI 53706
608-890-0258 etownsend_at_wisc.edu <mailto:etownsend_at_wisc.edu>
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