Graphic+Novels+Pre+K-6

=Graphic Novels - A written work that has a body that is a combination of art and text. It could be in comic strip form or without borders. Examples include cartoons, Manga, and Anime.=

Reviews & Awards
Reviews & Awards Booklist 12/01/05 Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.) 01/01/06 Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 12/01/05 Publishers Weekly 12/12/05 Horn Book 04/01/06 School Library Journal 03/01/06 Horn Book starred 04/01/06 Wilson's Children 10/01/06

Horn Book starred (Spring 2006)
Living in a Walter Mitty like dream world, sassy, smart Babymouse--the heroine of these graphic novels for young readers--faces daily challenges (missing the bus, dodgeball, popularity). Each challenge brings its own accompanying daydream, rich in pink hues and dramatic overtones. New readers will appreciate the familiar situations, humorous asides, and easy-to-digest plots; the graphic format is easy to follow. [Review covers these titles: Babymouse: Our Hero and Babymouse: Queen of the World!]

Other titles
CLAMP,. Angelic Layer: Volume 1. TokyoPop, 2002. 174 pages. Ages 7 and up CLAMP,. Card Captor Sakura: Volume 1. TokyoPop, 184 pages. Ages 7 and up Czekaj, Jef. Gramp & Julie: Shark Hunters. Top Shelf Productions, 2004. 128 pages. Ages 5 and up Kobayashi, Makoto. What's Michael? A Hard Day's Life. Translated by Dana Lewis & Lea Hernandez. Dark Horse Comics, 2002. Ages 5 and up Kochalka, James. Peanutbutter & Jeremy's Best Book Ever!. Alternative Comics, 2003. 280 pages. Ages 6 to 12 Krosoczka, Jarrett J.. Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute. Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. 96 pages. Ages 7 – 10 Runton, Andy. Owly: The Way Home & The Bittersweet Summer. Top Shelf Productions, 2004. 160 pages. Ages 6 and up Schmidt, J. Marc. Egg Story. SLG Publishing, 2004. 64 pages. Ages 8 and up Spiegelman, editor, Art. Little Lit: It Was a Dark and Silly Night.... Joanna Cotler/HarperCollins, 2003. 48 pages. Ages 5 and up Spiegelman, editor, Art. Little Lit: Folklore and Fairy Tales. Joanna Cotler/HarperCollins, 2000. 64 pages. Ages 5 and up Spiegelman, editor, Art. Little Lit: Strange Stories for Strange Kids. Joanna Cotler/HarperCollins, 2001. 64 pages. Ages 5 and up Spires, Ashley. Binky the Space Cat. Kids Can Press, 2009. 64 pages. Ages 7 - 10 Stamaty, Mark Alan. Alia's Mission: Saving the Books of Iraq. Knopf, 2004. Ages 5 and up Thompson, Jill. Scary Godmother: Wild About Harry. Sirius Entertainment, 2005. 48 pages. Ages 5 and up Smith, Ian and Tyson Smith. [|**Emily and the Intergalactic Lemonade Stand**]. SLG Publishing, 2004. 104 pages. Ages 7 and up Smith, Jeff. **Bone, Volume 1: Out of Boneville**. Cartoon Books, 1996. 142 pages. Ages 7 and up

Reviews and Awards
Teacher Librarian 02/01/06

Other titles
Bendis, Brian Michael. **Ultimate Spider-Man, Volume 1: Power and Responsibility**. Marvel Comics, Ages 10 and up Bendis, Brian Michael. **Ultimate Spider-Man, Volume 7: Irresponsible**. Marvel Comics, 2003. Ages 10 and up Busiek, Kurt. **Marvels**. Marvel Comics, 2001. 216 pages pages. Ages 9 and up Chiba, Tomohiro. [|**Mobile Suit Gundam Seed: Astray**]. Stone Bridge Press, 2004. 480 pages. Ages 10 and up CLAMP,. [|**Clamp School Detectives: Book 1**]. TokyoPop, 2003. 192 pages. Ages 9 and up CLAMP,. [|**Magic Knight: Rayearth I, Book 1**]. TokyoPop, 2003. 192 pages. Ages 10 and up Irwin, Jane. [|**Vogelein: Clockwork Faerie**]. Fiery Studios, 2005. 168 pages. Ages 10 and up Kesel, Barbara. [|**Meridian: Flying Solo, Volume 1**]. CrossGeneration Comics, 2003. 192 pages. Ages 9 and up Kirkman, Robert. **Invincible, Volume 1: Family Matters**. Image Comics, 2003. Ages 9 and up McKeever, Sean. [|**Sentinel, Volume 1: Salvage**]. Marvel Comics, 2004. Ages 10 and up Medley, Linda. [|**Castle Waiting, Volume One: Lucky Road**]. Olio Press, 2002. 184 pages. Ages 7 and up Tolkien, J.R.R.. **The Hobbit or There and Back Again**. Illustrated by Chuck Dixon. Eclipse Books, 1989. Ages 9 and up Toriyama, Akira. **Dragonball Z**. Photographed by. VIZ LLC, 2003. 146 pages. Ages 10 and up Torres, J.. **Alison Dare, Little Miss Adventures**. Oni Press, 2002. 104 pages. Ages 9 and up Walker, Landry. **Little Gloomy: Volume 1**. SLG Publishing, 2002. 128 pages. Ages 10 and up Yang, Gene. [|**Gordon Yamamoto and the King of the Geeks**]. SLG Publishing, 2004. 100 pages. Ages 10 and up Yang, Gene. [|**Loyola Chin and the San Peligran Order**]. SLG Publishing, 2004. 104 pages. Ages 10 and up

Reviews & Awards
Book Links (A.L.A.) 01/01/09 Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.) 01/01/08 Booklist starred 09/01/07 School Library Journal starred 09/01/07 Horn Book starred 04/01/08 Wilson's Junior High School 11/01/08 Library Media Connection starred 11/01/07 Wilson's Senior High School 01/01/09

Horn Book (November/December, 2007)
>From a bleak, sunless city haunted by the threat of scaled and serpentine monsters, a man sets forth to seek a new life in a new land, leaving his wife and daughter behind. His steamship voyage with a host of refugees takes him to a strange shore indeed, a country with its own architecture, alphabet, technologies -- even the pets look different. It's the triumph of this lavish yet somberly monochromatic wordless book that readers are put right into the refugee's shoes: we're as out of place as he, learning the customs of the country in step with the protagonist. With him, for example, we figure out how to use the transport system, and once aloft in the steam-driven air-ferry, we sit alongside him as another passenger tells her own story of imprisonment and escape. Small, meticulously composed square panels, sometimes twelve to a page, move the action along while larger pictures and double-page spreads display surreally majestic cityscapes as well as scenes of the disaster and oppression that led the nameless protagonist and others to seek this welcoming land. Subtle shifts from gray to brown to golden tones underline the chiaroscuro of the story's themes; all is warm light when the man and his family are united once again.

DeFilippis, Nunzio and Christina Weir. [|**New Mutants: Back to School**]. Marvel Comics, 2005. Ages 10 and up DeFilippis, Nunzio and Christina Weir. [|**Once in a Blue Moon (Volume 1)**]. Illustrated by Jennifer Quick. Oni Press, 2004. 154 pages. Ages 10-15 Gaiman, Neil and Adapted and Illustrated by P. Craig Russell. [|**Coraline**]. HarperCollins, 2008. 185 pages. Ages 10-14 Hale, Shannon and Dean Hale. [|**Rapunzel's Revenge**]. Illustrated by Nathan Hale. Bloomsbury, 2008. 144 pages. Ages 10-15 Petersen, David. [|**Mouse Guard: Fall 1152**]. Archaia Studios Press, 2007. 192 pages. Ages 9-14 Pini, Wendy. [|**Elfquest: The Grand Quest, Volume 1**]. DC Comics, 2004. Ages 11 and up Renier, Aaron. [|**Spiral-Bound: Top Secret Summer**]. Top Shelf, 2005. 178 pages. Ages 8-15 Brennan, Michael. [|**Electric Girl (Volume 1)**]. AiT/PlanetLar, 2002. 160 pages. Ages 11 and up Eldred, Tim. [|**Grease Monkey**]. Tor, 2006. 352 pages. Age 12 and older Fajardo, Alexis E.. **Kid Beowulf**. Ambition Studios West, 2004. Ages 12 and up Fujishima, Kosuke. [|**Oh My Goddess! 1-555-GODDESS**]. Dark Horse Comics, 1996. 152 pages. Ages 11 and up Land, editor, Dave. **Star Wars Tales, Volume 1**. Dark Horse Comics, 2002. 220 pages. Ages 11 and up Lutes, Jason. [|**Houdini: The Handcuff King**]. Illustrated by Nick Bertozzi. Hyperion, 2007. 81 pages. Age 10 and older Mizayaki, Hayao. [|**Spirited Away, Vol. 1**]. Viz Comics, 2002. Ages 11 and up Tan, Shaun. [|**The Arrival**]. Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic, 2007. 128 pages. Age 11 and older Tan, Shaun. [|**Tales from Outer Suburbia**]. U.S. edition: Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic, 2009. 92 pages. Ages 12 and older Tezuka, Osamu. [|**Phoenix: A Tale of the Future**]. Vis Communications, 2002. 298 pages. Ages 12 and up Thompson, Craig. [|**Goodbye, Chunky Rice**]. Top Shelf Productions, 2003. 128 pages. Age 11 and up Thoreau, Henry David. [|**Thoreau at Walden**]. Illustrated by John Porcellino. Hyperion, 2008. 112 pages. Ages 10-15 Torres, J.. [|**Sidekicks, Volume 1: Transfer Student**]. Oni Press, 2002. Ages 11 and up Tsuda, Masami. [|**Kare Kano: His and Her Circumstances, Volume 1**]. TokyoPop, 2003. 192 pages. Ages 12 and up Ueda, Miwa. [|**Peach Girl, Volume 1: Change of Heart**]. TokyoPop, 2003. 166 pages. Ages 12 and up Vaughan, Brian K.. **Runaways: Pride & Joy**. Marvel Comics, 2003. Ages 11 and up

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