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1) The flamingo
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2nd Grade Recommended Reads
AANHPI Authors: Early Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
OBD Read, Renew, Repeat - Summer 2024 YOUTH
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From a highly acclaimed illustrator comes a stunning graphic novel filled with adventure and wonder about an imaginative girl and her obsession with flamingos. A little girl arrives, excited for a beachy vacation with her Lao Lao. The girl and her grandmother search for shells, chase crabs, and play in the sea, but when the girl finds an exquisite flamingo feather in her grandmother's living room, her vacation turns into something fantastical.
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2022 Anderson's Bookshop Mock Newbery
Caribbean American Heritage Month (teens)
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"A wordless graphic novel in which twelve-year-old Marisol must adapt to a new life 1960s Brooklyn after her parents send her to the United States from Cuba to keep her safe during Castro's regime"--
3) Viewfinder
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"Arriving on an Earth devoid of people, a young space traveler discovers a viewfinder that reveals how the planet used to be, in this wordless, adventure-filled graphic novel about resilience and the extraordinary place we call home"--
4) Alien nation
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A wordless story that depicts a subway ride filled with cell-phone-using aliens. Presented in comic book format.
6) Crushing
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Two people search for connection in a big city.
7) The fly
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"One of the world's greatest cartoonists, Lewis Trondheim, tells the exciting life story of a common housefly. From the fly's birth to his inevitable end, we see everything this creature goes through simply to survive... from the fly's perspective. We guarantee you've never looked at your kitchen the way the fly does. While there's plenty of humor, there's thrills and chills as well, especially when the fly meets a spider. You may never have liked...
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"Every child, at some point, makes mistakes and must learn to deal with and admit those mistakes. This charming, two-tone, wordless comic deals with that very lesson and shows just how powerful the word "sorry" is. This beautifully rendered volume is a good lesson for children and adults alike. This edition includes a discussion guide and activity guide."--Back cover.
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One Beautiful Spring Day places Congress of the Animals, Fran, and Poochytown in a radically new light by surrounding them with 100 pages of dazzling new material, providing context, backstory, and a deeply satisfying conclusion to compose a single epic tale.
"A mesmerizingly mind-bending, wordless 400 page comics odyssey by a contemporary master of the form. Jim Woodring has been chronicling the adventures of his cartoon Everyman for almost 30 years....
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"More laughs! More chaos! More Minions! The mini-marauders return in this brand new collection of chaotic comedic calamity. they've taken on the greatest evil the world has ever seen-- now it's time to take on their toughest challenge yet... Sport! So hop, skip and jump into the world of javelins, bananas, balls, bananas, hurdles, and-- more bananas?! This the Minions like you've never seen them before. Ready. Set. Bananas!"--
11) Graphic witness: four wordless novels by Frans Masereel, Lynd Ward, Giacomo Patri and Laurence Hyde
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An anthology of four wordless novels by artists Frans Masereel, Lynd Ward, Giacomo Patri and Laurence Hyde, and a look at how these artists used their work as a form of social commentary. The influence of this art form on modern filmmaking and the graphic novel is also examined.
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There is a girl. She has no memory and no name. Nothing but a Guardian. An armored giant who protects her from predators and pitfalls. Together they walk across an extraordinary fantasy world. If they leave the path, the air itself comes alive, forcing them onwards. Why? The girl doesn't know, but there's worse than beasts and bandits ahead. Civilization, with its temptations and treacheries, will test their bond beyond its limits.
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Minions, The Rise of Gru is scheduled to be released in Australia on 23 June 2022. Hilarious and mischievous comic strip adventures with Illumination's Minions! Hot off their new movie, Minions - The Rise of Gru, the Minions are back for more chaotic action, and Gru is there too!
16) The Gull Yettin
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"Told in striking colors and loose but confident lines, The Gull Yettin's story begins when a young boy awakens late one night to find his home on fire. The boy is saved by a lanky, shapeshifting Gull. Orphaned by the fire, and now adrift in a boat piloted by the Gull, the boy faces an uncertain future, one that will be both helped and hindered by his new attendant. Without a word, Kessler builds a strange but recognizable world, using it to explore...
17) The forest
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"The Forest is a graphic novella told via twenty-five singular illustrations, without words, of which only Swiss artist Thomas Ott is capable. A young boy sneaks away from a family funeral and sinks into the forest depths, where he confronts man's greatest fear and must choose his path. Drawing with a technique called scratchboard, where a white surface is covered with a black layer and scratched away, Ott creates images out of negative space to harrowing...
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"Graphic Witness features rare wordless novels by five great twentieth century woodcut artists from Europe and North America. The stories they tell reflect the political and social issues of their times as well as the broader issues that are still relevant today. Frans Masereel (1899-1972) was born in Belgium and is considered the father of the wordless graphic novel. Graphic Witness includes the first reprint of his classic work The Passion of a...
19) Bear
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"Bear, Staffan Gnosspelius's debut book, is a gorgeous visual meditation on depression. In this deeply affecting, wordless picture book for adults, a bear is maddeningly afflicted with a cone that covers his head and that he is unable to take off. He furiously stomps and yells and tears at the cone, he implores the skies and fate for relief, he is drawn to dark and wild and scary places. The depths of his sadness feel like a defeat. It's a battle...
20) Lunatic
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'Lunatic' is an unusual and striking graphic novel in the tradition of wordless books by the likes of Frans Masereel, Lynd Ward and William Gropper. Part fable, part classic adventure in the tradition of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, the tale is told in nearly 200 full-page, wordless images in a variety of media from pencil, pen and ink, ink wash and paint that lovingly evoke the artistic styles of its period setting, and classic illustrators from Charles...