Monday, December 31, 2012

Janet's Top 10 Graphic Novel Picks for 2012

In no particulary order (just alphabetical) here are my top 10 children's graphic novel picks for 2012:

1. Adventures in Cartooning: Christmas Special by James Sturm, Andrew Arnold and Alexis Frederick-Frost
In this companion to Adventures in Cartooning, The Magic Cartooning Elf and his friend the Knight join forces to make a Christmas comic for Santa to give to all the boys and girls in the world.

Best friends Julie, Alia, and Lucie take ballet classes together at a local dance studio where they prepare for their upcoming performance of Sleeping Beauty while dealing with their vain classmate, Carla, who thinks she should be the star of the show.


3. Drama by Raina Telgemeier
Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while serving on the stage crew for a middle school production of Moon over Mississippi as various relationships start and end, and others never quite get going. 



Following Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword, Mirka returns to take on a misguided meteor who's been set in motion by the troll and turned into Mirka's twin by the witch. Doppelganger Mirka is out to best the real girl. The heroine will have to beat her own other self in a three-park challenge ... or be banished from Hereville! 


5. Hilda and the Midnight Giant by Luke Pearson
Hilda has always had a knack for making friends with mysterious creatures, until invisible elves try to evict her and her architect mother from their beloved, cozy mountain home




6. I'm Not a Plastic Bag: A Graphic Novel by Rachel Hope Allison
Allison's debut graphic novel brings to life the plight of our oceans in a moving fable about beauty, loneliness, and hope. It illuminates how our behavior as consumers is slowly destroying our beautiful oceans, and shows us how each person has a role to play in protecting the planet we call home.

In this second installment of the Zita the Spacegirl books, Zita is determined to find her way home to Earth, but her exploits have made her an intergallactic megastar, and as her true self is eclipsed by her public persona, she faces a robot doppelganger, unsure of who she can trust.


 8. Little White Duck: A Childhood in China by Andrés Vera Martínez and Na Liu
A young girl describes her experiences growing up in China, beginning with the death of Chairman Mao in 1976.



9. The Three Stooges: Bed Bugged and Other Stories by George Gladir
The knuckleheads try their hand at sumo wrestling, bug extermination, selling ice cream, and tackle other adventures in this first installment of the new Three Stooges series.




This graphic novel adaptation of the classic tale in which Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government. 

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