When I read the back of the movie box, when it talked about an ex-military priest trying to save the church by making deals with the mob and seducing a nun, I was cynically excited. I went into this...
Continuing our discussion of graphic novels that might appeal to readers who enjoy the combination of art and text, but who are uninterested in either superhero or alternative...
Continuing our discussion of graphic novels that might appeal to readers who enjoy the combination of art and text, but who are uninterested in either superhero or alternative comics.While historical...
Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.-- Ursula K. LeGuinLeGuin, perhaps best known for her The Left Hand of Darkness and its gender switching aliens, has compared science fiction to a...
Continuing our discussion of graphic novels that might appeal to readers who enjoy the combination of art and text, but who are uninterested in either superhero or alternative comics. Why must my life be...
We all know people who have given up reading comic books, not because they disliked the format, but because the content no longer appealed to them. They didn't give up reading though. They just moved on to...
Kids have been reading stories about cowboys and the West since the days of dime novels; and though the Western genre has been eclipsed in recent years by the popularity of wizards and superheroes, it...
Ah, Summer vacation. Long days filled with playing with friends and running here and there. But even the most active kids (and their parents!) need some quiet time and that's the perfect moment to bring...
With Easter right around the corner, now's the perfect time to be thinking about adding a graphic novel or two to your favorite child or tween's Easter present.Archie "Goodbye Forever" by Melanie J.Morgan...
Everyone seems to be suffering from the "Winter Blahs" at my school, including the children. Fortunately I have something that will help them snap out of it. Cinebook has recently released new The...
By June of 1940, Hitler and his allies controlled continental Europe. Great Britain stood alone. That summer, the outnumbered pilots of the Royal Air Force, many of them volunteers and amateurs, were...
Given the snowstorms that hit around the globe before Winter even officially started, it's just possible that we might be in for one of those winters. The kind where the little, and not so little, ones are...