Teaching Graphic Novels

Link: http://teachinggraphicnovels.blogspot.com/

Katie Monnin has put together a fantastic site on using graphic novels...or comic books as we would have called them...to teach children to read. She has a wealth of resources listed on her page. She has information on conferences, interviews with artists, other comic and graphic novel sites, and lots of book and graphic novel selections. If you have a reticent reader in your household I'd highly recommend reading her site and getting some ideas for that summer reading list! I'd particularly recommend Françoise Mouly's books. They look like stories my girls would have liked to read...and ones that I would have enjoyed reading with them.