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Re: Graphic Novels: A Powerful Medium for Fiction and Fact
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From: Crystal Brunelle <brucr_at_onalaskaschools.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:17:39 -0600
What I find popular in my library is graphic novels with heroes or humor or some combination of both. Here are the books with the most checkouts in my PK-5 library.
DC Superheroes Bone Pokemon Stick Man's Really Bad Day Squish Sisters Amulet Babysitter's Club Zita Smile Zero Gravity Babymouse Beyblade Earthling Lunch Lady
Much as I have tried, our non-fiction and historical based graphic novels aren't as popular. With Sisters and Smile, Raina Telgemeier breaks that a bit with the biographical, but for the most part, realistic graphic novels are not as popular with my crowd.
Personally, my favorites are the memoirs. Recently I loved *Relish* and my favorite middle grade memoirs are *Little White Duck: A Childhood in China* and *Smile*. I am eager to read *El Deafo* because I've heard so many positive things about it. I wasn't a graphic novel fan until the past few years. Pictures seemed to get in my way and slow me down. I wanted to know what was going to happen next and initially, I kind of let my eyes slide past the illustrations to keep going. I had to consciously slow down and let the pictures help tell the story because I was trying to read them like a novel even though I knew better. It takes a different set of skills to read graphic novels. Not a lower set of skills, just a different set.
I really appreciated Terry Thompson's book *Adventures in Graphica: Using Comics and Graphic Novels to Teach Comprehension, 2-6
<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3343370-adventures-in-graphica>*. It was good information for myself as I read more and more GNs and has been helpful as more teachers are using GNs in their classrooms.
What has truly surprised me has been my love of Gene Luen Yang's books especially Shadow Hero
<http://richincolor.com/2014/03/review-the-shadow-hero/> and Boxer's and Saints <http://richincolor.com/2013/09/review-boxers-and-saints/>. They are so rich both in text and illustration. (You can read my "boardering on gushing" reviews of those over at Rich in Color if you click the links.) Knowing the books that I usually read, I wouldn't have guessed that I would read his work many times over. I've read Shadow Hero and Boxer's and Saints many times already and will almost certainly read them again in the future.
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Crystal Brunelle Teacher Librarian Northern Hills Elementary 511 Spruce St. Onalaska, WI 54650
Tweet _at_librarygrl2
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:17:39 -0600
What I find popular in my library is graphic novels with heroes or humor or some combination of both. Here are the books with the most checkouts in my PK-5 library.
DC Superheroes Bone Pokemon Stick Man's Really Bad Day Squish Sisters Amulet Babysitter's Club Zita Smile Zero Gravity Babymouse Beyblade Earthling Lunch Lady
Much as I have tried, our non-fiction and historical based graphic novels aren't as popular. With Sisters and Smile, Raina Telgemeier breaks that a bit with the biographical, but for the most part, realistic graphic novels are not as popular with my crowd.
Personally, my favorites are the memoirs. Recently I loved *Relish* and my favorite middle grade memoirs are *Little White Duck: A Childhood in China* and *Smile*. I am eager to read *El Deafo* because I've heard so many positive things about it. I wasn't a graphic novel fan until the past few years. Pictures seemed to get in my way and slow me down. I wanted to know what was going to happen next and initially, I kind of let my eyes slide past the illustrations to keep going. I had to consciously slow down and let the pictures help tell the story because I was trying to read them like a novel even though I knew better. It takes a different set of skills to read graphic novels. Not a lower set of skills, just a different set.
I really appreciated Terry Thompson's book *Adventures in Graphica: Using Comics and Graphic Novels to Teach Comprehension, 2-6
<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3343370-adventures-in-graphica>*. It was good information for myself as I read more and more GNs and has been helpful as more teachers are using GNs in their classrooms.
What has truly surprised me has been my love of Gene Luen Yang's books especially Shadow Hero
<http://richincolor.com/2014/03/review-the-shadow-hero/> and Boxer's and Saints <http://richincolor.com/2013/09/review-boxers-and-saints/>. They are so rich both in text and illustration. (You can read my "boardering on gushing" reviews of those over at Rich in Color if you click the links.) Knowing the books that I usually read, I wouldn't have guessed that I would read his work many times over. I've read Shadow Hero and Boxer's and Saints many times already and will almost certainly read them again in the future.
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Crystal Brunelle Teacher Librarian Northern Hills Elementary 511 Spruce St. Onalaska, WI 54650
Tweet _at_librarygrl2
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