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If you go down to the woods today – you’ll read a lovely, gentle, funny little Toon Book.
Patrick in A Teddy Bears Picnic And Other Stories By Geoffrey Hayes Toon Books There was a time, not so long ago, that the old credo of “comics aren’t just for kids anymore” suddenly seemed to be closer to “comics aren’t for kids at all anymore“. Thankfully, over the last few years this has been [...]
Continue reading...Feedback from Jim Medway’s Create Comics workshop
Saturday, May 28, 2011
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Following the brilliant Create Comics workshop in February with Jim Medway (our report here), the Year 5 & 6s at school sent feedback to Jim. But how best to send feedback for a comic course? Oh yes…… We had sheet after sheet of these! I think you can see just from these couple of sheets [...]
Continue reading...Sarah goes to Dartmoor….
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Sarah McIntyre (Vern & Lettuce, Morris The Mankiest Monster, You Can’t Eat A Princess, When Titus Took The Train) not only creates lovely pictures, not only makes wonderful comics but also manages to maintain a highly readable and entertaining Live Journal blog. Her life seems to be a constant stream of incredibly fun book based [...]
Continue reading...Jim Medway’s Create Comics Workshop….
Friday, May 27, 2011
Back in February, the primary school I work at (you know – the one with the great library) had the pleasure of hosting comic artist Jim Medway for his two-day Create Comics workshop. Apologies for the delay – it took a little longer than expected to get the permissions necessary to post this! The whole [...]
Continue reading...Tiny Titans …. awwww. now with added pink.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
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I’ve been meaning to have a look at DC’s rather adorable looking Tiny Titans for a long time, and it’s on the next want list for the primary school graphic novel library I’m in charge of. Well, if I wasn’t convinced before this would definitely have done it – a quick interview with artists Art [...]
Continue reading...The Wolf’s Whistle
Monday, March 14, 2011
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The Wolf’s Whistle By Bjorn Rule Lie & Co. Nobrow Press The inside front cover tells a tale on this one…. “The Wolf’s Whistle was originally conceived to be the first book in a series entitled “Behind The Tails” © Nobrow Press Ltd. Written as a collaborative effort between Alex Spiro, Scott Donaldson, and Bjorn Rule [...]
Continue reading...More on The Phoenix…. UPDATED 4th March….
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Okay, nothing too concrete or detailed still, but news from yesterday’s meeting of various comic people with David Fickling, Ben Sharpe and various comic people, most of which were associated with the DFC, the subscription only weekly comic published by David Fickling Books/ Random House that ran for 43 issues from May 2008 to March [...]
Continue reading...Picture Book This: Meanwhile…..
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Meanwhile By Jules Feiffer Harper Trophy My recent forays into the world of librarianism at the primary school and thinking about suitable comics to get for a primary school library has made me think about the strange and very blurry boundary between comics and picture books for children. The definition of where the boundary between [...]
Continue reading...The Library Chronicles: What would you choose?
Friday, January 21, 2011
Now, it may come as no surprise, but writing for the FPI blog is not my full time job. (Yes, I know you all thought it was a lifestyle of excess but sadly it just isn’t the case.) No, my actual full(ish) time job is working in a primary school up in Yorkshire, doing a [...]
Continue reading...Owly to be published as full colour picture book….
Sunday, December 12, 2010
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Well, the world may be slowly freezing, democracy seems to be losing the battle to big business and England seems to have forgotten that educating our children is something we should actually invest in. But at least we’ve got something to take our minds off the world going very wrong - Top Shelf announced this week [...]
Continue reading...Benny And Penny in the Toy Breaker
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
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Benny And Penny in The Toy Breaker by Geoffrey Hayes Toon Books The latest Toon Books release sees another in Geoffrey Hayes’ award-winning Benny And Penny series, the gentlest of adventures of two little mice. The last Benny And Penny book – The Big No-No! won the prestigious 2009 American Library Association’s Theodor Seuss Geisel [...]
Continue reading...Zig And Wikki – hugs and bugs from Toon Books
Friday, April 2, 2010
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Zig And Wikki – Something Ate My Homework by Nadja Spiegelman and Trade Loeffler Toon Books “I wanted to write a story that would have both hugs and bugs— a friendship and gross facts about flies” Nadja Spiegelman in School Library Journal. Poor Zig – he’s late with his homework and needs to find a [...]
Continue reading...Simone Lia – new blog, new book… just not soon enough!
Sunday, January 17, 2010
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Simone Lia, creator of the oh so heartbreakingly lovely Fluffy (review) and the ever so fun Sausage & Carrots (review) for the DFC, has a shiny new blog. It’s full of fun stuff and some really lovely artwork such as the piece below, available to you as part of a Christmas card set (why not [...]
Continue reading...The 323 Detective Agency – open for funny business
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
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The 323 Detective Agency – The Disappearance Of Dave Warthog by Fiona Robinson Amulet Books / Abrams The simplest way to review this would be to tell you that on the day we got it in the post, Molly sat down with it and read the whole thing, cover to cover, complaining every time we [...]
Continue reading...Little Mouse – A Toon Book by Jeff Smith
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Little Mouse Gets Ready by Jeff Smith Toon Books. The Toon Books series has been extensively reviewed here on the FPI blog, simply because it’s so enjoyable to be able to actually celebrate smart, funny and entertaining graphic novels specifically written for younger children. Francoise Mouley’s initial idea for Toon Books was a very simple [...]
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