Kid-friendly comics return with ‘Marvel Adventures’ | The Arizona Daily Star
Marvel Adventures looks like a comic book series to watch for, especially with a Fantastic Four book coming out this summer. I really like that it is aimed for kids 10 or younger. This is definitely one series I will be looking to see at ALA. Is Marvel going to have a booth?

I had no idea that TIME Magazine offers coverage of graphic novels! Andrew Arnold has a biweekly column covering them. And they just ran an article on 5 Fantastic Graphic Novels. Very cool!

The CCBC now offers a Booklist of Graphic Novels for Children’s and Young Adult Library Collections. The bibliography is for building graphic novel collections in both public and school libraries. I appreciate the fact that there is a lengthy list of titles for elementary age kids as well as lists for middle school and high school age.

USATODAY.com – Teachers are getting graphic is a great article on how librarians and teachers are embracing the graphic novel format to reach kids, especially boys, who are reluctant readers.

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is a nonprofit organization that defends the First Amendment rights of comic book readers. The site offers news, feature articles, and information on conventions.

USATODAY.com – ‘Nancy Drew’ finds clues in graphic novel is an article about the newest version of Nancy Drew: manga style! Our library purchased the first one in both the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew graphic novel series to see how they will circ. I do wonder if they will lead kids to the old novels, if a completely different group of graphic-novel-reading kids will enjoy them, or if they will simply be ignored and not really work as a cross over. We will see!

I have started reading some graphic novels. The last ones I had read were my brother’s collection of Batman, X-Men and other super heroes. I have found that manga can be a very mixed bag. Some of the books I found very confusing with the storylines jumbled and unclear. But I have found some other manga that I really enjoyed, including the Oh, My Goddess series and Mars series. In fact, I am interested enough to continue to read both series.
I still have quite a pile of other graphic novels to read through. I will post more of my favorites as I read on!

Komikwerks, a great comic and graphic novel site, is now offering previews of iBooks graphic novels. They include a couple for younger readers the Amelia Rules books and Penguins on Ice.