The Storm in the Barn
Winner of the 2010 Scott O’ Dell Award for Historical Fiction Written and Illustrated by Matt Phelan In his first graphic novel, established children’s illustrator Matt Phelan depicts the story of Jack, a…
Ghostopolis
Wow! This book may convert this reviewer to love graphic novels! Garth is a boy with a terminal disease who is accidentally transported to the afterlife before his time. There he discovers that…
Excalibur: The Legend of King Arthur
I have heard the story of King Arthur many times, through TV, movies, musicals, plays and books, yet reading this graphic novel didn’t disappoint. I learned many new things. Of course every teller…
Lost & Found
Appearing as a follow-up to Shaun Tan’s genre-mixing 2009 story collection Tales from Outer Suburbia, Lost & Found is actually an omnibus collection of three of Tan’s earlier picture books: The Red Tree,…
Tales from Outer Suburbia
Not so much a graphic novel as it is a collection of short stories saturated with mysterious illustrations, Australian author/illustrator Shaun Tan’s new book brings fantasy, magic realism, allegories, and absurdities to the…
