These are books that kids will want to read-or should read, but will enjoy doing so. Board book, picture books, kid lit, elementary school books, middle school books, high school books, all age comic books and more will be talked about here.
Back in the day, there was something on MTV or VH1 known as “a can’t miss show on cable”. Behind The Music took a look at the history of musical groups or artists and managed to do it with such an addictive flair that the Surgeon General should’ve issued warnings before the program. The Stories Behind The Stories is a book that looks at the things that inspired authors who’ve written some of the classic children’s books that people know today.
Taking a literary classic and distilling it down into a board book that has just over 150 words is no small feat. It’s an even taller order to make it from intellectual property that’s known to any child over six years old. As if that wasn’t challenging enough, let’s make the art so beautiful and engaging that a 12-year-old stops and says, “great art”. Baby Classics, Frankenstein grabs your attention from its cover and continues its handle on you throughout the book.
Kyle’s Little Sister is a manga-esque graphic novel that really knows the soul of a sixth-grade girl. The more mature fifth-grade students will see themselves in the characters also. It mirrors their emotions, interactions, peer groups, and sibling rivalries so accurately that it’ll take you back to the halls of yesteryear or to yesterday, whichever is closer.
Here, read this all-age graphic novel about ADHD. Here, read this all-age graphic novel about a funny, real, and sometimes contentious relationship about a pair of siblings. As a written description it’s possible that neither one of those sentences might attract the elementary-aged reader to A Tale As Tall As Jacob. However, the benefit of an effective all-age graphic novel is that the images in the can bring in readers who otherwise might not have been interested in it. On the cover, we see a giant youth who is wreaking havoc in the house as his family runs for cover. Is this a Paul Bunyon tale, the story of a child with an active imagination, or something entirely different?
Alien Superstar is an engaging upper-elementary through middle school book series. The first book in the series was fresh, exciting, funny and quite fabulous. Book #2 in the series, Lights, Camera, Danger! had its moments and opened up a larger threat to the alien who crash-landed on a Hollywood backlot. Hollywood Vs. The Galaxy is the final book in the series and while it doesn’t land with a complete thud, it’s a shadow of how clever and original the first book was.
“From cows” is what I said when my youngest son asked me. It was posed during his litany of questions as he’s driving down the gauntlet of Time For Bed Boulevard. He knows that if it’s the right night and he asks the right question he can suck me into his sleep avoidance. Alas, he was unsuccessful on that night, but his question got me thinking. I knew I had seen it asked in MinuteEarth Explains, How Did Whales Get So Big?, but in the heat of his bedtime minute, I couldn’t come up with a more precise answer. The specific answer to his question will completely surprise you, as well as admire the ways it’s marketed.
Assuming that a chapter book is based in the world of realistic fiction, and it isn’t a humor book, middle to upper-elementary school readers can smell schmaltz from a mile away. This isn’t the good variety either. This is the smelly, faux-earnest, lesson learning aroma that has the power to drive audiences away just as the DJ parts the crowds when they play a slow song at the sixth-grade dance. That was one of the things that readers will immediately recognize, and appreciate about Soccer Trophy Mystery. It’s devoid of any overt lessons that adults might want to teach and tells a believable story, complete with enough sports talk to weave in certain audiences.
Jeffrey Brown has one of the most distinctive styles in graphic novels that are of interest to young readers. His presentation is also well known to elementary school students via his work in Jedi Academy and Space-Time. This is one reason why Batman Robin and Howard will immediately resonate with ages eight and up. The art has that familiar vibe due to Brown’s other works, plus readers will already know Batman and Robin, and be curious as to how Howard plays into the story.
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