We celebrate reading rubbish and talk about why high-brow literature is not the end all and be all of a reading life. Then we dive into a variety of less traditional formats including graphic novels, audiobooks, and magazines. Lots of recommendations as well as reassurance that if your kid would rather read a comic book, they are still a reader and you're doing great.
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Books we mention
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Owly by Andy Runton
The Princess in Black series by Shannon & Dean Hale
Zita the Spacegirl series by Ben Hatke
Hilda series by Luke Pearson
The Witch Boy by Molly Ostertag
March series John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
Wonderstruck and The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Akisi series Marguerite Abouet
Aya of Yop City by Marguerite Abouet, art by Mathieu Sapin
A Bride's Story series by Kaoru Mori
The Color Trilogy by Kim Dong Hwa
Cairo by G. Willow Wilson
Low Riders in Space series by and Raul the Third
Lumberjanes series by N.D. Stevenson
Calvin and Hobbes Bill Waterson
The Tea Dragon series by K. O'Neill
Ms. Marvel series by G. Willow Wilson
America by Gabby Rivera
Squirrel Girl by Ryan North, art by Erica Henderson
Age of Bronze by Eric Shanower
Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
The Jolly Postman or Other People's Letters by Allan and Janet Ahlberg
Miss Fanshawe and the Great Dragon Adventure by Sue Scullard
Goosebumps series by R. L. Stine
The Boxcar Children Mysteries by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Magazines we mention
Other resources
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