In celebration of National Sea Monkey Day

Let’s hear it for Sea Monkeys and all cheesy things advertised in the back of comics from the days of yore.

Hurrah!

To celebrate this day, Paula and I thought it would be a great idea to list some of our favorite comic/graphic novels which is where most of us were introduced to the sea monkey phenomenon.

Primary Grades (K-4)

The Bad Guys (series) by Aaron Blabey

Baby Mouse (series) by Jennifer Holm and Matthew Holm

Binky Takes Charge by Ashley Spires

Dragon Breath by Ursula Vernon

Dragons Beware by Rafael Rosado and Jorge Aguirre

Jack and the Box by Art Spiegelman

Little Mouse Gets Ready by Jeff Smith

Squish, Super Amoeba (series) by Jennifer Holm and Matthew Holm

Zoe and Robot by Ryan Sias

Middle Grades (5-8)

Amelia Rules! By Jimmy Gownley

Amulet (series) by Kazu Kibuishi

Graveyard Book by Neil Gaimon, graphic adaptation by P. Craig Russell

Rapunzel’s Revenge by Shannon Hale, illustrated by Nathan Hale

Sisters by Raina Telgemeier

War Brothers: a Graphic Novel by Sharon McKay, illustrated by Daniel LaFrance

Zebra Fish by Peter H. Reynolds

Senior Grades (9-12)

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

Fagin the Jew by Will Eisner

Ms. Marvel (series) by G. Willow Wilson, illustrated by Adrian Alphona

The 99 (series) by Naif Al-Mutawa, Fabian Nicieza

Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman, adapted by Ian Edginton

Red: a Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

Saga (series) by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples

Spinning by Tillie Walden

Three Feathers by Richard Van Camp, illustrated by K. Mateus

Teaching with Graphic Novels

Nonfiction

The Arab of the Future: a Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984, a Graphic Memoir by Riad Sattouf

Darwin: a Graphic Biography by Eugene Byrne and Simon Gurr

Feynman by Jim Ottoaviani, illustrated by Leland Myrick

Gandhi: a Manga Biography by Kazuki Ebine

Louis Riel :  a Comic Strip Biography by Chester Brown

Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales (series) by Nathan Hale

The Shocking World of Electricity with Max Axiom, Super Scientist by Liam O’Donnell

Two Generals by Scott Chantler

Understanding Photosynthesis with Max Axiom, Super Scientist by Liam O’Donnell

Fiction

Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 by Tim Hamilton

Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery: the authorized graphic adaptation by Miles Hyman

Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, illustrated by Fabio Celoni

Hamlet (Manga Shakespeare series) illustrated by Emma Vieceli

Romeo and Juliet adapted and illustrated by Gareth Hinds

7 Generations (series) by David Alexander Robertson & Scott B. Henderson