Reviewed by Paige Pagan Review Source: Teaching for Change Book Author: Saving Sunshine is a contemporary graphic novel that makes issues such as Islamophobia and covert racism accessible for a middle grade audience. Zara and Zeeshan can’t remember the last time they had anything in common — they’re the epitome of opposite twins. Neither one of […]
When Stars Are Scattered
Reviewed by Lidwien Kapteijns Book Source: African Access Book Author: This graphic novel for 9-12 year-old readers is a real masterpiece. It is based on the life of a Somali boy called Omar, who had to flee his rural village in Somalia in 1991 when he was four, and, together with his mentally challenged younger […]
Juliet Takes a Breath
Reviewed by Sawyer Lovett Source: Lambda Literary Author: Do you remember the first book that changed the way you looked at the world? The one that made you question the status quo and your place in it? For Juliet, a chubby 19-year-old Puerto Rican queer girl from the Bronx, it’s Raging Flower: Empowering your Pussy by […]
¡Brigadistas! An American Anti-Fascist in the Spanish Civil War
Reviewed by Bill Fletcher Review Source: Monthly Review Book Author: Sometime prior to my eighth birthday, my great-grandfather, the poet, writer, and anthologist William Stanley Braithwaite, bought me my first comic book. For reasons that I have long since forgotten, we walked to a pharmacy on the corner of Edgecombe Avenue and St. Nicholas Place […]
Drama: A Graphic Novel
Reviewed by Michelle Ann Abate Review Source: Children’s Literature in Education Book Author: “Springtime in the South is Like a Song in My Heart”: Raina Telgemeier’s Drama, the Romanticization of the Plantation South, and the Romance Plot Abstract This essay explores the complex relationship that exists between the romance plot and the romanticization of the antebellum […]
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Reviewed by Stergios Botzakis Review Source: Graphic Novel Resources Book Author: Marjane Satrapi was in elementary school when the Shah was ousted from power in Iran and a conservative Islamic regime took control. Because her family had communist and socialist leanings, as well as a distant familial relationship to the deposed Shah, they had to navigate a perilous political landscape. […]
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