Comics
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Martina the Beautiful Cockroach by Carmen Agra Deedy. Illustrated by Michael Austin. The kids and I saw this book lying on top of a pile of picture books stacked on the floor of the Children’s reading area at our local library. We had sat down on the carpeted steps to kill some time. It’s not
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In William Bee’s Whatever, an eager father tries desperately to engage his son, who has no interest in anything. Drawn with simple unsophisticated shapes and colors and told in simple single lines of text, the book works as a whole artistic comment on ennui. My kids, who have both been prone to complaining about boredom
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While not picture books in the traditional sense of stitched hardcovers, the Tiny Titans series by Art Baltazar and Franco should not be ignored. They are engaging, colorful, and “slapsticky” – making them an engaging way to sustain positive reading habits among emergent readers.
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Good friends tell each other the truth. They are honest with one another. But sometimes good friends allow each other to keep certain “rationalizations.” I tell my good friends I go to the annual New York Comic Con (NYCC) for the sake of my kids and to fulfill my professional obligations as an educator. My
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Tae Eun Yoo’s The Little Red Fish is pretty story about a boy’s fantasy adventure in a library. It seemed like quite an ordinary book at first until the near the end where the worded narrative ends and you are forced to pay attention to the images (as they now carry the narrative fully).
Vincent Young 