Katie Monnin helps teachers explain the U.S. Constitution

Dr. Katie Monnin, respected authority on how to use the graphic novel format alongside traditional literature to teach to the standards, wrote the teacher's guide to a new graphic novel on the U.S. Constitution coming out soon from Round Table Companies. Read more about it on The Huffington Post!

American Library Association, New Orleans, LA

hi everyone!

i hope your summer is going well, and you are finding time to catch up on all the amazing graphic novels that came out in the spring.  one of my recent-release favorite's is vera brosgol's Anya's Ghost (published by First Second Books).

today, however, i find myself posting because i am super-stoked to let you know that i will be attending this year's american library association (ALA) conference in new orleans, la.  just next weekend (june 24 - 26, 2011), i look forward to the conference, and, most especially, seeing all of you, my comic and graphic novel friends (and perhaps some soon-to-be-new-friends).  :)  :)  :)

safe travels everyone and see you in new orleans!  :)  katie

It's Here . . . Teaching Early Reader Comics and Graphic Novels now available!

Hi everyone!

I hope you are all well and enjoying the spring weather.  :)

I am super-excited to let you know that Teaching Early Reader Comics and Graphic Novels (2011) is now available, complete with a Foreword by the amazing children's author Jane Yolen.

Take care and best wishes, Katie :)

Introducing Book 2: Teaching Early Reader Comics and Graphic Novels

Hi everyone!

I hope everyone is enjoying the first signs of spring.  :)

And with your new and fresh spring-minded thoughts for life and learning in mind, I want to introduce you to my new book: Teaching Early Reader Comics and Graphic Novels (2011), with a Foreword by Jane Yolen.

Take care everyone, Katie :)

New York City Comic Con

Just an update: I am super-excited to announce that I will be going to New York City Comic Con this October, the 8th through the 10th.  


Official presentation date is yet to be announced, but, most likely, it will be on Saturday October 9th.  Of course, the topic will be Teaching Graphic Novels.  


Hope to see all my comic-graphic-novel friends there!!!  :)  


Katie

Awesome new graphic novel: Belle Yang's Forget Sorrow

Ok, so once in awhile I read a graphic novel that I just can't put down, literally.  Usually, such a graphic novel has captured my heart, my mind and my soul.  Such is the case with Belle Yang's new graphic memoir Forget Sorrow.

Ashamed and embarrassed to return home after an abusive and dangerous relationship with a boyfriend Belle and her parents nickname "Rotten Egg," Belle longs to better understand her family history, especially on her father's side.  Thus, in listening to his stories and drawing them she not only learns about the generational complications and recursive patterns that not only link us together, but also teach us how to empower ourselves and our families into closer relationships.

Reminiscent of Spiegelman's Maus, Bechdel's Fun Home, and Satrapi's Persepolis, Belle's Forget Sorrow is sure to become a well-known and respected name in the graphic novel memoir elite.

Although the above link takes you to Belle Yang's home page, here is also a link to Forget Sorrow's amazon.com page.

Interviews with Booth's C.C. Colbert and Tracy White's How I Made it to Eighteen on graphicnovelreporter.com

The awesomely talented story-writing-historian C.C. Colbert discusses her new graphic novel, Booth.

Tracy White talks about her new and graphic novel, How I Made it to Eighteen, one of my favorite graphic novels of 2010 for its delicate, smart and sensitive handling of complicated teenage issues.

Katie Monnin