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*Now an acclaimed live-action Netflix series!* Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. This joyful trip into the LGBTQ+ world of Heartstopper is the perfect gift for anyone who loves the graphic novels or Netflix TV series - from Alice Oseman, bestselling author and winner of the YA Book Prize. Now in full colour for the first time! The full-colour Heartstopper Yearbook is packed full of exclusive content from the Heartstopper universe - including never-before-seen illustrations, an exclusive mini-comic, a look back at Alice's Heartstopper artwork over the years, character profiles, trivia, and insights into her creative process - all narrated by a cartoon version of Alice herself. By the winner of the YA Book Prize, Heartstopper is about love, friendship, loyalty and mental illness. It encompasses all the small stories of Nick and Charlie's lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of us.
Like lightning/you strike/fast and free/legs zoom/down field/eyes fixed/on the checkered ball/on the goal/ten yards to go/can't nobody stop you/can't nobody cop you... Twelve-year-old Nick is a football-mad boy who absolutely hates books. In this graphic novel adaptation of the acclaimed verse novel, football, family, love, and friendship take centre stage as Nick tries to figure out how to navigate his parents' break-up, stand up to bullies, and impress the girl of his dreams. These challenges - which seem even harder than scoring a tie-breaking, game-winning goal - change his life, as well as his best friend's.
Josephine Baker left a segregated America in 1921 and became the most famous entertainer in Paris. She went on to be the first Black woman to star in a movie, a volunteer spy during World War II, and the mother of twelve adopted children from around the world. Then, she returned to the States to dance for American audiences and bring her voice to the Civil Rights Movement. This her story.
Rosalind Franklin was a British chemist during the 1940s and 1950s, when few women worked in the sciences. During WWII, she expanded our knowledge of the physics of coal and carbon, and later she studied viruses. Her “Photo 51” was central to understanding the double helix structure of DNA, ground breaking work she was never given credit for in her lifetime.
Fantastic Football is the second book in the Stupendous Sports series which aims to do for PE what Horrible Histories did for Year 7 history. Full of cartoons, jokes, fun facts and useful stats, it gives a brief history of football, details of player positions, the future of the game, the importance of diversity, the forthcoming Football World Cup, the rise of women's football, plus a great section on skills and tricks. Brilliantly illustrated by Matt Cherry, this is for fans of the beautiful game, their parents (and grandparents), but firstly for young readers who want something entertaining to dip into and, like the game itself, to share with friends.
August 2022 Book of the Month | Laugh out loud at this completely hilarious follow up to the magnificent Loki: A Bad God’s Guide To Being Good. Loki is back for a new adventure. Now he is trying to work out how to clear his name having been unfairly charged with stealing the great god Thor’s hammer. Once again Loki brings his trademark confusion and chaos as he shifts effortlessly between his mortal and immortal personalities in an effort to have the very best life he can. Told equally in words and pictures, this is just ridiculously joyful from start to finish.
This year in Beanotown is an extra-special one as 2023 marks the 70th anniversary of Roger the Dodger! Roger always has a trick up his sleeve, and this year will see him make his biggest dodge ever as he tries to make it around the world in 70 dodges! He’s joined in the UK’s #1 bestselling annual by Dennis and Gnasher, Minnie the Minx, the Bash Street Kids and all your favourites! It’s 112 pages packed with jokes, mischief and laughs for everyone!
Roll up, roll up, for 112 pages of rollicking good fun! Desperate Dan is your ringmaster for the greatest show in comics. Be dazzled by Dreadlock Holmes’ detective skills, wowed by Winker Watson’s wangles and crackled up by Korky the Cat’s paw-some pranks! It’s the greatest show on Earth!
August 2022 Graphic Novel of the Month | This second book in the brilliant Barb the Brave graphic series by award-winning duo Dan Abdo and Jason Patterson sees Barb embark on another zany, funny, all-out action adventure that will have readers utterly enthralled. The smart storytelling, playful delight in words, and leap-off-the-page illustrations present a bedazzlement of riches. Barb is a Berzerker, a warrior whose role it is to protect Bailiwick from a motley menagerie of madcap monsters. When Witch Head captures the grown-up Berzerkers, it falls to invincible Barb and her trusty crew to save the day, with Porkchop the Yeti always at her side. Encountering increasingly crazy and challenging obstacles, Barb and her mates work together and support each other during an explosive quest that’ll have readers chuckling while perched on the edge of their seats. A sure-fire winner for adventure fans, this comes recommended for 6+ year-olds who delight in visual story-telling, adults included.
Dog Man meets the Lord of the Rings in this epic laugh-out-loud graphic novel series about two aspiring monster slayers. In their second adventure, our heroes face a new threat to Meowminster - an army of ferocious sea monsters! This is the perfect new read for fans of Captain Underpants, Dog Man and The Simpsons! The islands of Pawdor are in peril once again! Ferocious sea monsters have been spotted on shore, and the townsfolk are in a complete panic. Luckily, Kitty Quest are ready to protect the land. So what if Woolfrik and Perigold are the only guild members (besides their mentor who's a ghost), and it's just their second week on the job? How are these two amateur heroes supposed to stop a whole army of tentacled beasts? It may just take some quick thinking, a whole lot of luck, and a little help from the most unexpected of places. In order to save all of kitty-kind, Woolfrik and Perigold are going to have to learn to work together and prove that two heads are better than one.
July 2022 Graphic Novel of the Month | This remarkable collaboration between Carnegie medal winning Jason Reynolds and acclaimed artist Jason Griffin has created both a lasting memorial to what the world endured in the pandemic of 2020 and a testament to the enduring horror of racism and what humans do to each other and the world. Printed on yellowed lined paper with every appearance of a notebook it looks and feels like an artefact of the troubled times we have all survived. This is lived experience we can all share with the creators, who have captured so brilliantly the sheer claustrophobia of being trapped within four walls, as indeed is the narrator. With a mother glued to the news with its rolling horror and a brother glued to his video games, a father coughing in isolation and a sister plotting protest, the boy wonders why the human race seems so intent on destroying themselves. The collage illustrations mainline emotion and every word of the spare poetic narrative hits home. The connection between George Floyd unable to breathe, tear gas victims unable to breathe, COVID victims unable to breath and the world in the grip of pollution, unable to breathe is truly powerful. But what we and the narrator realise is that the everyday mundane moments that we share with our loved ones is our “oxygen mask” and the repeated refrain as we are reminded to “breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth” brings solace and hope. While capturing a specific moment in time the messages are timeless and enduring. This is essential reading.
Freddy's life is . . . mixed. He's a superpowered robot (YAY!) . . . Who also has to go to school (BOO!). But when Freddy and his pals gets involved in the school science fair, his robot abilities mean he's suddenly the centre of attention! Which Freddy 100% loves. Will Freddy let this brush with fame go to his head? Of course he will! But that might not go down so well with his friends . . .
Graphic novels offer action-packed stories, stunning visuals and are fun! Graphic novels might well appeal to reluctant readers, but the assumption that it's not 'real reading' is far from true. Literacy experts, including our own professional librians at LoveReading4Schools, champion the graphic novel as an excellent way improve your child's reading and to encourage a familiarity and love of books. Graphic novels have plenty of text and often complex plots to follow, characters grow and develop - and the artwork is absolutely stunning adding to the allure and entertainment value of a graphic novel.
With a foundation in Japan (manga) and France (bandes dessinées) the genre is incredibly popular, the characters often entwined in gaming and movies to create a wonderfully imaginative fantasy world into which children can immerse themselves.
