You Know, for Kids

My seven-year-old, Dash, spent a little less of his time reading graphic novels in 2011 than he had in 2010 (and a little more trying to cre...

Graphic novels have gained a great deal of respectability since I was a kid. With the possible exception of Herge's Tintin books—and tho...

Brian Selznick's 2007 children's book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret , followed the path of every author's fantasy: It got magni...

I wrote my very first post on this blog about the first two volumes in George O'Connor's Olympians series of graphic novels about t...

Another trend in kids' books last year was a continued surge in works either about or inspired by ancient Greek mythology. Much to my de...

I remember when a friend introduced me to the world of Tintin. I can't remember exactly how old I was, probably about seven or eight, ...

Greek myths were my fairy tales when I was young. I remember loving that the stories always seemed to have some kind of twist to them: th...