Monday, May 14, 2018

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

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