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A Few Words with NPR’s Brooke Gladstone on “The Influencing Machine”
If you missed last year’s bow of The Influencing Machine, today’s your lucky day: now in paperback, this intensely engaging and educational work of graphic nonfiction is now available in paperback....
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Seeing the Future Through the Lens of the Past: A Conversation with Brian...
Next month I’ll be running a post on “Recommended Graphic Titles for Schools,” but please let me cheat a little by saying that Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? belongs near the top of any...
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Seeing the Future Through the Lens of the Past: A Conversation with Brian...
…and so graphic novelist Brian Fies and I pick up right where we left off in the first part of the interview, which is occasioned by the paperback publication this week of his Whatever Happened to the...
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Recommended Comics for Schools: Annie Sullivan, Mystery Boxes, Anna & Froga
One of the exciting things about the start of the school year is the opportunity to add new books to reading lists, to curriculum, to classroom libraries—you name it. With this in mind, I thought I’d...
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Recommended Comics for Schools: Harvey Pekar’s Cleveland, The Adventures of...
…so here’s part two of this ongoing series, and if you haven’t read the first post (which explains the approach I’ve taken), well, help yourself whenever you feel like it. In brief: this series will...
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Just-For-Fun Giveaway: Zombie Cupcakes Book
Thanks to the generosity of the folks at Ryland Peters & Small, Connect the Pop has three copies of the gorgeously creative A Zombie Ate My Cupcake to give away in honor of Halloween. Please bear...
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“Are Zombies Good for Kids?”: A Lively Roundtable
Continuing the conversation that I started with psychoanalyst Jack Schwartz, I again question the popularity of zombies among young people… or, as Matt Day suggested the piece be called on Twitter,...
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Exploring Common Core’s Informational Text… with Violent Video Games
Admittedly, Black Ops II and CCSS might make for an odd pairing, almost as if I wanted to create my own little perfect storm of controversy: there are already plenty of librarians and teachers anxious...
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Giveaway: Blu-ray and DVD Combo Pack of BULLY
It’s one of those kid-focused, school-centered docs that even if you don’t have kids or haven’t set foot in a school since graduating, you know about it. I’m referring, of course, to Lee Hirsch’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Informational Text: Recommended Books, Suggested Strategies
Probably my biggest regret over the course of my tenure at this blog has been that I haven’t written enough about the many excellent books I receive that relate to pop culture or transliteracy in some...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Few Words with NPR’s Brooke Gladstone on “The Influencing Machine”
If you missed last year’s bow of The Influencing Machine, today’s your lucky day: now in paperback, this intensely engaging and educational work of graphic nonfiction is now available in paperback....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Seeing the Future Through the Lens of the Past: A Conversation with Brian...
Next month I’ll be running a post on “Recommended Graphic Titles for Schools,” but please let me cheat a little by saying that Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? belongs near the top of any...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Seeing the Future Through the Lens of the Past: A Conversation with Brian...
…and so graphic novelist Brian Fies and I pick up right where we left off in the first part of the interview, which is occasioned by the paperback publication this week of his Whatever Happened to the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Recommended Comics for Schools: Annie Sullivan, Mystery Boxes, Anna & Froga
One of the exciting things about the start of the school year is the opportunity to add new books to reading lists, to curriculum, to classroom libraries—you name it. With this in mind, I thought I’d...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Recommended Comics for Schools: Harvey Pekar’s Cleveland, The Adventures of...
…so here’s part two of this ongoing series, and if you haven’t read the first post (which explains the approach I’ve taken), well, help yourself whenever you feel like it. In brief: this series will...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Just-For-Fun Giveaway: Zombie Cupcakes Book
Thanks to the generosity of the folks at Ryland Peters & Small, Connect the Pop has three copies of the gorgeously creative A Zombie Ate My Cupcake to give away in honor of Halloween. Please bear...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Are Zombies Good for Kids?”: A Lively Roundtable
Continuing the conversation that I started with psychoanalyst Jack Schwartz, I again question the popularity of zombies among young people… or, as Matt Day suggested the piece be called on Twitter,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Exploring Common Core’s Informational Text… with Violent Video Games
Admittedly, Black Ops II and CCSS might make for an odd pairing, almost as if I wanted to create my own little perfect storm of controversy: there are already plenty of librarians and teachers anxious...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Giveaway: Blu-ray and DVD Combo Pack of BULLY
It’s one of those kid-focused, school-centered docs that even if you don’t have kids or haven’t set foot in a school since graduating, you know about it. I’m referring, of course, to Lee Hirsch’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Informational Text: Recommended Books, Suggested Strategies
Probably my biggest regret over the course of my tenure at this blog has been that I haven’t written enough about the many excellent books I receive that relate to pop culture or transliteracy in some...
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