Johanna Taylor @ 🏠👻: You: Please act normal; you need these people to like you. Me: Ok! People: hi. Me: You heard of these things called graphic novels?? They’re like comic books that are the length of novels, and employ compositional storytelling to—here, I’ll just start you off with these 20 first, you got a pen?

You: Please act normal; you need these people to like you. Me: Ok! People: hi. Me: You heard of these things called graphic novels?? They’re like comic books that are the length of novels, and employ compositional storytelling to—here, I’ll just start you off with these 20 first, you got a pen?

You: Please act normal; you need these people to like you. Me: Ok! People: hi. Me: So Bionicle is a metaphor for cancer. One LEGO designer, while being treated for a brain tumor, imagined the pills he was taking contained tiny warriors that would battle the monsters inside his body...

Please come at my kid’s English teacher—she doesn’t believe in GNs or ebooks as “real” books. It’s so aggravating!

That is so frustrating! Graphic novels are practically accessibility tools—it’s been proven that children with ADHD/focus/reading struggles especially benefit from graphic novels! www.understood.org/en/articles/...

5 reasons graphic novels can help kids with readingwww.understood.org Graphic novels are a great option for kids who have trouble reading. Here are five reasons graphic novels can help kids build readings skills and confidence.

I was thinking more like a literal bludgeoning object than a lovely article. It’s frustrating how closed-minded she is about this. It’s a class meant to encourage kids to earn honors credit, so why restrict materials that might foster the intrinsic motivation for reading that leads to achievement? 🙄

Ughhh such an ableist, basic opinion. Does she think audiobooks are useless too? What is her understanding of neurodivergence and accessibility? Does she consider contemporary novels to be crap because they're not the classics, either? Why is she perpetuating this outdated, Victoriana snobbery?

It’s a mystery!

So it only counts if it's a physical book with no pictures???

My kid is reading ebooks at night and making up page numbers based on the percentage completed x the number of pages listed for the dead tree edition of the book. I’ll fight for them if necessary.

Oh ffs, ugh💜

Uh huh…

LMAO …real talk though, I put together a booklist of my must-reads 👀 bookshop.org/lists/must-r...

MUST-READ Graphic Novelsbookshop.org A curated list of all of the graphic novels I have personally recommended to my newsletter readers, and my overall favorite reads!

Thank you!

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