The Titanic Disaster Adam Stone Illustration by Tod Smith Color by Gerardo Sandoval In this graphic novel adaptation of the disaster of the titanic readers learn some of the facts and events that led to the sinking of one of the greatest ships ever made. The illustrated panels are of various sizes, to help highlight…
Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty: a Graphic Novel L.L. Owens and Jennifer Tanner In this graphic novel adaptation of Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty readers will be able to learn the story of one of the most famous horses in all of literature. The book begins with a short introduction as to who Anna Sewell is and…
El Deafo Cece Bell Color by David Lasky 5 Stars When Cece gets spinal meningitis at the age of four, she loses her hearing. She soon gets a hearing aid and can start to understand the world a little bit more. Only Cece feels different because of her hearing loss and the hearing aid. Because…
Princess Decomposia and Count Spatula Andi Watson 4 Stars Princess Decomposia is trying her best to help her father, the King, rule the underworld. But things are hard. There is too much to do and her father just lies in bed all day complaining of pretend aches and pains. Not only that the King is…
Big Nate: Great Minds Think Alike Lincoln Peirce 3 Stars This is another collection of comics that are put together to make a loose story arc of Big Nate’s life over the course of about a year. Since it is mostly comics put together in a book, most pages have the basic four-panel comic with…
Star Wars Knight Errant Aflame Script by John Jackson Miller Pencils by Ivan Rodriguez Inks by Ivan Rodriguez and Belardino Brabo Colors by Michael Atiyeh Lettering by Michael Heisler Cover art by Joe Quinones 2.5 Stars This is the fifth volume of this particular Star Wars series. On the cover page there is a four…
Silly Lilly in What Will I Be Today? Agnès Rosenstiehl 2.5 Stars Silly Lilly is simple comic book for beginning readers. Lilly believes that “Every day is a new day to play!” Readers can watch what Silly Lilly pretends to be (or what she plays) each day of the week. Each section starts with telling…
The Adventure of the Priory School Adapted by Vincent Goodwin Illustrated by Ben Dunn 3 Stars This is another edition of “The Graphic Novel Adventures of Sherlock Homes.” This story is of Sherlock’s case of finding the missing Priory School boy. Of course like any other Sherlock mystery this is a lot of observation of…
The Return of Zita the Spacegirl Ben Hatke 4 Stars In this third adventure of Zita the Spacegirl Zita is a captured prisoner who is sentenced to hard labor for the rest of her life. Of course there is hope. There is a skeleton and a pile of rags and some other creatures who have…
One of my new favorite series is the “Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales” series by Nathan Hale (the writer/illustrator, not the patriot that was hung for being a spy in the Revolutionary War). The first in the series is One Dead Spy. I totally loved that book. So of course I was interested in seeing the…