My daughter, on the other hand, is a master at this. Although I could certainly enhance my skills in this area, my point is that reading integrated text and pictures is a zone of relative weakness for me as a reader. When I have to move back and forth between the pictures and text bubbles, and potentially other text from a narrator, I don't know where to put my focus. I'm much more in my comfort zone reading linear text. Not having grown up reading graphic novels, or even as much of a fan of comic books, I find graphic novels difficult to read. She notes that in her own experience "it is the pictures that actually add to the sophistication and difficulty of graphic novels because of the skills required to read the images." In the remainder of her post, she shares reasons why parents should defend their children's reading of graphic novels, and why they are not, in fact, too easy. one of the biggest push backs in reading also happens to surround graphic novels with many parents and educators lamenting their “easiness.” Within these missives lies a movement to then steer kids away from these “dessert” books and into “harder” reading, or outright banning the reading of graphic novels, telling kids that these books are just for fun, don’t count toward whatever set goal or points, or even confiscating them from kids seen reading them." She notes that despite kids' enthusiasm for graphic novels: Pernille begins by reminding readers that graphic novels are the biggest reason that her oldest daughter believes in herself as a reader. The second piece I came across was a recent blog post written by teacher Pernille Ripp titled Not Too Easy - Embracing Graphic Novels at Home. Her arguments about the benefits of graphic novels for visual learners and the way that graphic novels help kids learn to make inferences are well worth a look. She also links to some lists of recommended titles (though these will not include the very latest releases, of course). She then shares a number of talking points that she has developed for parents and other caregivers on the literary merit of graphic novels for kids.
However, without fail, I will encounter parents who are not allowing their children to read graphic novels, or are telling kids these “don’t count.”" "I love helping children select books they’re excited to read, and delight in finding them titles based on their own interests and reading tastes. As far as I can tell, there's nothing much in this piece that is any less relevant today than it was two years ago. In the first, written two years ago, librarian Molly Wetta at Book Riot shares her Annual Reminder that Graphic Novels are "Real" Reading. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio.Just in time for kids' summer reading, I ran across two articles last week defending graphic novels as "real reading." Here I share some notes from those articles together with my response based on my experience with my daughter Terri has a husband, two daughters, and one poodle (all adorable).
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Terri is the New York Times bestselling author of the Emmie & Friends series and the cartoonist of the award-winning syndicated comic strip The Pajama Diaries (2006–2020). She also knows how wonderful it is when friendships do work out. But as a mom (and former middle school student in the dark ages), she knows these things happen. As a Type A perfectionist, Terri Libenson hates to admit that she has any ex-friends.
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