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Are We There Yet? at Simmons University and Boston Reads Comics at the Boston Public Library
Shoshana Flax: "Are We There Yet?" was the theme of this year's Children’s Literature Summer Institute at Simmons University. I got to be there for Friday evening and most of Saturday, and heard different speakers consider different answers to the title question. Gregory Maguire introduced the Institute’s topic and reflected...
Manga roundup
When I worked as a bookseller, I was often asked about manga appropriate for young readers. Even though I am an avid manga reader, it was sometimes difficult for me to provide concrete recommendations. Manga series are often long; series generally come in around twelve to twenty-five volumes total, and...
Five questions for Sylvie Kantorovitz
Vehicles are a staple of picture books, and Sylvie Kantorovitz’s new early-reader comic A New Car for Pickle (Holiday, 5–8 years), capitalizes on that favorite topic for readers who are speeding toward independence — and with plenty of humor and whimsical panel illustrations, it’s perfect for summer reading. See Kantorovitz’s...
Five Questions for Clar Angkasa
In Stories of the Islands (Holiday, 8–12 years), Clar Angkasa retells three Indonesian folktales in a gorgeous graphic format, reframing the tales in ways that empower their female protagonists. 1. Were folktales a big part of your experience growing up? If so, who would share them with you? Clar Angkasa:...
Five Questions for Remy Lai
In Ghost Book (Holt, 8–12 years), July Chen can communicate with the wandering soul of William Xiao, a boy who is in a coma. This middle-grade graphic novel takes them on an adventure through the Hungry Ghost Festival, with high emotional stakes but plenty of fun to be had along...
Five questions for Pedro Martín
Nine kids. One motor home and a pick-up truck. In Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir (Dial, 10–14 years), Pedro Martín recalls his family’s 1977 road trip to pick up his abuelito from Jalisco, Mexico. 1. You seamlessly incorporate a few artistic styles. How did you decide which would best capture a mood...
Five questions for Maxwell Eaton III
Scout, the protagonist of Maxwell Eaton’s new graphic-novel series Survival Scout, may be fictional, but when she gets lost on a hike (and her adult brother gets chased away by a bear) in series debut Lost in the Mountains (Roaring Brook, 7–10 years), the wilderness safety advice she offers is real. ...
Complicated Feelings: Thoughts on Being a Diverse Writer
From the May/June 2023 special issue of The Horn Book Magazine: Diverse Books: Past, Present, and Future....
Five questions for Jerry Craft
New Kid fans rejoice! The third book in author/illustrator Jerry Craft’s wildly popular, bestselling, and highly decorated (by the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Author Award, for example) graphic novel series is here; although its title is School Trip (HarperAlley/Quill Tree/HarperCollins, 9–13 years), an end-of-middle-school trip to Paris(!) feels...
The Writer's Page: A Chorus of Storytellers: Mythology and Comics
I’m fond of reminding people that Greek mythology isn’t a compendium of dead narratives about long-dead people and distant places, pulled from a dusty old book or scroll. What we now call Greek mythology is what remains of a past culture’s most sacred beliefs — a collection of living stories,...
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