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| 'Books' photo by Paula Slade |
With the opening of San Diego Comic-Con on Thursday, July 21, 2011, the annual event is expected to draw upwards of 150,000 attendees, and this week’s ‘Book Report’ introduces you to a comic book for early readers and an extraordinary comic book collection, both items from Toon Books, which help spark an interest in reading for children and teens who are reluctant readers, while providing a great deal of entertainment.
BOOKS
Benny and Penny in the Big No-No! By Geffrey Hayes
This Theodor Suess Geisel Award-winning book combines charming illustrations, solid dialogue and easy to follow panels in a story that many children will readily identify with.
Lessons about friendship, jumping to conclusions, and how important it is to apologize when you’re wrong are presented in a non-preachy fashion by two adorable mice siblings and their neighbor, a little mole.
Presented in a hardcover edition, this 32-page Toon book is perfect for age’s four to eight.
To peek inside this book, and read editorial and customer reviews simply follow this link to Amazon.com.
Amazon Marketplace currently provides best available pricing at $7.22.
The TOON Treasury of Classic Children’s Comics
Art Spiegelman and FranCoise Mouly (Editors) with an introduction by Jon Sciezka
This is a superb 352-page collection of the greatest children’s comics spanning 40 years – all classics that have entertained generations.
These are full comic books, not strips, and they exhibit exceptional artwork and stories from the Golden Age of cartooning from such masters as Sheldon Mayer, Carl Barks and Basil Wolverton to name a few.
Readers will find everything from Little Archie to Little Lulu, Donald Duck to Dennis the Menace – 67 stories presented in five categories, spanning everything from kids and funny animals, to the wacky and weird.
To see more graphics from this collection, and read editorial and customer reviews simply follow this link to Amazon.com.
Amazon Marketplace currently provides best available pricing at $21.14.
On September 10, 2009, Art Spiegelman and FranCoise Mouly, who are considered foremost authorities in the field of comics and children’s graphic novels, sat down with WNYC’s Leonard Lopate, to discuss the making of this landmark collection. Below is a video of that interview.
For additional information on the entire Toon Book collection, a line of hardcover comics that offers many choices for different reading levels, simply link to http://www.toon-books.com/
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