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Oh yes! Free Comic Book Day is this Saturday, May 5!

Free comics will be available at the library on Saturday, while supplies last! Many thanks to Carol & John's Comic Book Shop for providing us with comics! You guys rock!

Hi everyone! It's been awhile, hasn't it? It's really amazing how time gets away from you. But I've been reading, reading, reading, and have some new additions to our collection to talk about:

LUNCH LADY AND THE MUTANT MATHLETES

...we've got 50 great nursery rhymes in one awesome comic-format basket!

No, I don't mean the football team, but those legendary warriors of days gone by. Lucky for us, we've got one of those warriors (in kid-size, of course) that has traveled forward in time to protect us all from evil!  Behold, Fangbone, Third Grade Barbarian!

They say that opportunity comes when you least expect it. In Kazu Kibuishi's "Amulet" series, Emily--grieving over the sudden death of her father and aggravated with her mom for moving them into their great-grandfather's house--is certainly not expecting any opportunities to come along.

...that is the question! Does a book qualify as a graphic novel if it contains pages with no illustrations, only text? Some examples:

Magic Pickle by Scott Morse

This fun series starring a superhero pickle is geared towards younger readers.  It has pictures on nearly every page, and some pages read like a standard comic.  Yet the story is heavy on text (about 30 percent).  Scholastic, the publisher, tags it as a graphic novel but in this library it doesn't carry the tag.  Does it make the cut?

..."Stuck in the Middle" with you!

No, not the Stealers Wheel song from the 70's that is now running through my head; but a neat collection of comics that cover the horrors and travails of that most ghastly of institutions: MIDDLE SCHOOL.

...for a great global adventure!

Matt Phelan has done it again.  He has taken a piece of history and transformed it into an entertaining, visually lovely graphic tale, "Around the World: three remarkable journeys."  

Since I was a little girl, I've loved cats. I grew up on a farm and we had regular arrivals of strays of all sorts and I loved them all (however, some of them may not have loved me very much!). So naturally it follows that I love cat stories, whether they come in picture book form or otherwise.