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March 20, 2011 by Travis Jonker

Link Du Jour: Top 10 Graphic Novels

March 20, 2011 by Travis Jonker   5 comments

Booklist recently announced their list of the Top 10 Graphic Novels for youth, and you have to give them points for originality. While there are a few titles on the list you might know (The Unsinkable Walker Bean, Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty), I’m willing to bet my cardigan (well, maybe an item of equal value) that there are a few you weren’t aware of. And really, isn’t that what makes a list like this worth it? I’m off to find a copy of Return of the Dapper Men. Click here (or the image below) to read.

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About Travis Jonker

Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.

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  1. Margie Culver says

    March 20, 2011 at 9:15 am

    Thanks for the memory jog. Now I am wondering where I stashed my copy of Booklist.

  2. :paula says

    March 22, 2011 at 12:05 pm

    I can NOT get my system to buy Trickster. I don’t know what their block is, but I submitted that request after I saw the book at Small Press Expo, after NY Comic Con… HRMMMPH!! Frustrating.

    It’s a cool list – I too want to get my hands on Dapper Men, and I always adore Jill Thompson’s work. But my kids and I weren’t as impressed with Walker Bean as a lot of people seem to have been.

  3. Travis says

    March 22, 2011 at 12:12 pm

    I know Walker Bean has been circulating well at my 5th and 6th grade school, but I haven’t talked with students about it yet.

  4. Tom angleberger says

    April 11, 2011 at 7:24 am

    This list has a huge Abrams blind spot!!!
    Hereville
    Popularity Papers
    Meanwhile

    Also have you seen The New Brighton Arch. Society? I haven’t finished it yet, but it is beautiful.

    • Travis says

      April 11, 2011 at 9:04 am

      I have seen, and support all four of the books you mentioned, Tom. The ol’ top 10 list is just as good for highlighting books that didn’t make it as books that did.

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