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Tag: early readers

November 25, 2025 by Brigid Alverson

Announcing ‘Penny and the Yeti’ | News

A girl and a friendly yeti find a way to negotiate family problems in a new graphic novel for early readers.

May 20, 2025 by Esther Keller

Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus: The Graphic Novel | Review

The Junie B. Jones graphic novel captures the essence of the original books, while the artwork lifts up the prose with cheerful energy.

December 4, 2023 by Brigid Alverson

Beaky Barnes and the Devious Duck | Preview

We're starting the week with some silliness: An advance preview of David Ezra Stein's Beaky Barnes and the Devious Duck.

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Norma & Belly | Series Review

August 11, 2023 by Esther Keller

A series review of Mika Song's early reader comics starring Norma and Belly.

Go and Get with Rex | Exclusive Cover Reveal

August 8, 2023 by Brigid Alverson

Today we have the exclusive cover reveal of the latest book from the pair that brought you See the Cat: Three Stories About a Dog.

Review: Nat the Cat Takes a Nap

March 24, 2023 by Esther Keller

Nat the Cat is a delightful story for emerging readers who can use the pictures to decode the simple vocabulary.

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Review| The Cat Kid Comic Club #4

December 14, 2022 by Esther Keller

Cat Kid Comic Club may be silly, but Dav Pilkey has some important things to say in his latest kid-pleasing book.

Review: Snails Are Just My Speed!

November 14, 2018 by Esther Keller

True story: When my son was in first or second grade, I gave him Kevin McCloskey’s The Real Poop on Pigeons and my son refused to believe that he was reading a nonfiction title. McCloskey has a knack for showing interesting tidbits to make a topic come alive in a wacky sort of way. He […]

Cover Reveal: Anna Banana and the Chocolate Explosion

September 8, 2014 by Brigid Alverson

Earlier this year, First Second published Sleep Tight, Anna Banana, a cheerful picture book/comic hybrid by Dominique Roques and Alexis Dormal, and now, here’s a first look at the cover for the second book in the series, Anna Banana and the Chocolate Explosion. Anna Banana is a mischievous girl with a large coterie of stuffed […]

Review: First Graphics: Volcanoes! and Earthquake!

August 19, 2014 by Brigid Alverson

Volcanoes! Earthquakes! Written by Renée Gray-Wilburn Illustrated by Aleksandar Sotirovski Capstone Press These two hardback graphic novels, part of Capstone’s First Graphics: Wild Earth series, do a nice job of explaining basic earth science for young readers (the books have a reading level of K-3). Each book is divided into three chapters. The first is […]

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