Today’s post comes to you from Eleanor Duggan Remembering Through Panels with Year of the Rabbit After reading Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes by Chantha Nguon, I became deeply intrigued with Cambodian history. Part of that curiosity came from the realisation of how little I knew about this chapter of … Continue reading #IntYALitMonth: Cambodia
Today’s post comes to you from Kate London 'Things Have a Soul' - Werner Abresch (1941 – 2024) Stell Dir Vor! Comics über die Nachkriegszeit (Imagine! : Comics about the postwar period) by Tobi Dahmen, Julia Bernhard, Melanie Garanin, Mikael Ross, Volker Schmitt, and Julia Zejn Werner Abresch was a pastor and avid collector of memories. … Continue reading #IntYALitMonth: How Germany Remembers
A genocide almost a hundred years earlier echoes in the life of 16-year-old Nadine and her brother, who convince their parents to let them go on a family heritage tour to Armenia with their classmates in their afterschool Armenian program in Los Angeles. From there, she and her brother plan to travel to Istanbul, Turkey, … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: Armaveni
It’s that time of year again--or at least it was when I wrote this post: San Diego Comic Con! For those who may not know, San Diego Comic Con is a huge four-and-a-half day lollapalooza of an annual convention celebrating all things comics related. There are panels with authors and actors; talks about art, craft, … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: Four Eisner- Nominated Graphic Novels in Translation
How lucky young people are today in their choices of memoirs. Today I'm celebrating that many of our students are able to see themselves, not just in fiction but in the stories that people are willing to share of their lives, their struggles, their memories and their triumphs. Originally I had a place-holder poster up … Continue reading #DecDisplays – Recent Memoirs
Review by Helen Jones Please be advised that this review refers to discrimination and sexual assault. Ducks, an autobiographical graphic novel by Kate Beaton, starts off with a simple, coming-of-age premise. Fresh out of university, twenty-one-year-old Katie heads off from her home on a quiet, windswept island off the coast of Nova Scotia to travel … Continue reading #IntlYALitMonth Review: Ducks
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