Today’s post comes to you from Nadine Bailey A Decade in the Making, a Lifetime to Forget: The Andes Disaster in Graphic Form Shadows on the Ice - The 1972 Andes DisasterBy: Frédéric Bertocchini (Writer), Thierry Diette (Artist), Pascal Nino (Colors)Format: Graphic novelLanguage: Translated from French by Andrew BenteauISBN: 978-1-990521-29-4Audience: 16+Published by: Black Panel Press - … Continue reading #IntYALitMonth: Shadows on the Ice
Today’s post comes to you from Angie Erickson Bees, Belonging, & the Fragility of Ecosystems It is serendipitous to be sharing Milk without Honey on the eve of Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday. Hanna Harms' stunning graphic essay (translated from German by the prolific Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp about the conservation of bees sits in quiet dialogue … Continue reading #IntYALitMonth: Milk Without Honey
Today's post comes to you from Kim Tyo-Dickerson Alchemy and Identity: How Rebis: Born and Reborn Reimagines the European Witch Trials in Medieval Italy Rebis: Born and Reborn -- written by Irene Marchesini & illustrated by Carlotta Dicataldo (2023), translated from Italian by Carla Roncalli Di Montorio (2025) In a medieval Italian village, men and … Continue reading #IntYALitMonth: Rebis: Born and Reborn
What do a vampire, a slime mold, a skeleton, a mad scientist and a mummy have in common? They’re all students at Monstrocity School. And they’re also all close friends of young werewolf Olivia Wolf, the protagonist in the zany Olivia Wolf graphic novels for readers age 7-10. In Olivia Wolf and the Trip Through Time, … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: Olivia Wolf and the Trip Through Time
As war in the Middle East pushes the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine from the news, this is a good time to remember the terror experienced by the residents of the seaside city of Mariupol on February 24, 2022, and in the weeks afterward. Bestselling author/illustrator Don Brown chronicles those events in his graphic novel … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: 83 Days in Mariupol
Take a cooking competition in graphic novel format and mix in zany illustrations, alien species and an intergalactic empire. Blend in a reluctant, kindhearted female heroine, top it all off with eco-, exoplanetary, and class politics, and you get The Big Tournament, the first book in the fabulous upper middle grade/YA sci-fi series, Magda: Intergalactic … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: The Big Tournament
Written by Karthika Gopalakrishnan Young adult fiction in India has been taking on new forms, pushing the envelope, and expanding the boundaries of all that this genre of homegrown fiction has to offer its readers. Here are three works that are contemporary examples of the path that this genre has journeyed: Art is a Voice … Continue reading #INTYALITMONTH: Indian YA
Written by Angela Erickson Those of us who work or live in a world of books know that perhaps the richest terrain for graphic novelists is memoir and biography. As I type this, I can picture the covers of Maus, Persepolis, and Dragon Hoops -- some of the graphic memoirs that I regularly press into … Continue reading #INTYALITMONTH: Graphic Novels of Displacement
Written by Angela Erickson From Skeptic to Enthusiast (Again!) When I wrote recently about my evolving relationship with graphic novels, I focused on the nonfiction science titles in translation that had caught me by surprise. I wrote about those first because they were what I have been reading most recently, but it was not graphic … Continue reading #INTYALITMONTH: Feminism, Storytelling & the Power of the Graphic Novel
Written by Angela Erickson My Early Skepticism I’ve been thinking a lot about graphic novels lately. As a former Head of Middle School English, the teachers in my department and I often struggled to get students to move from graphic novels to traditional novels. And to be fair, there’s research suggesting that graphic novels cultivate … Continue reading #INTYALITMONTH: Seeing Science in Translation
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