If they get the bug for good comics, they may well begin pursuing the most literary and worthwhile of the medium-just as if they caught the bug for good novels, they'd be likely to pursue the literary giants of eras past and present. A Final Note to Parentsĭon't treat graphic novels as a gateway drug to get kids to read "real books." Comics are a medium of their own and while there's some crossover appeal, your goal should be to inculcate in your children an appreciation for quality in our cultural artifacts. Just play a part in your child's discovery of that book. So if you see a good book in a more mature category, don't feel as if it's out of reach necessarily. I don't lie to her and pretend the dead people are just sleeping, but I help her not to dwell overlong on those things and I play up the humour in other spots and am able to help her identify with the book's heroes. But because I am reading it to her, I can control somewhat how she'll interpret elements. Left to her own, the story would probably give her nightmares. There're limbs lost and even a tongue gets clawed off. There's a lot of danger and several notable deaths. It's an epic fantasy adventure with themes meant for more mature readers. I'm currently reading Bone to my three-year-old daughter (I wrote this sentence in 2012!). ![]() Obviously, reading to kids can make far more advanced books accessible to a younger set. So with that in mind, parents will want to take my recommendations and run them through whatever filters govern their own households and mindsets. My daughter's only three and I'm told my taste in reading in elementary school was. ![]() ![]() These categories won't be a perfect fit for any particular child save for the one existing in my imagination. I feel less of a rush here because many high schoolers can read most of the books that I regularly recommend to adults. 1 1 Ideally, I'll later add in recommendations for high schoolers as well. I'll divide this into four categories: comics for 1) pre-k, 2) lower elementary, 3) upper elementary, and 4) junior high. Still: we've got to start somewhere and I do want to make this list as widely useful as possible. I just want to recommend some good books. And really, I don't want to bother with any of that. ![]() And one parent might find no issue in, say, the rather chaste depictions of violence in Tintin while another might be very concerned with a comics story that makes free use of gunplay.īasically, any list of recommendations for children will be founded on a list of caveats a mile deep. What I mean by that is that a book suitable to one seven-year-old might be too mature for another ten-year-old. Part of the reason it's taken me as long as it has to produce even this beginning of a list is that different kids are different kids and different parents are different parents. "Train up a child in the way he should go even when he is old he will not depart from it." And all that.īut the problem is: it's a tough question to answer. After all, if you spark a child's interest in the medium with good, solid storytelling and non-exploitative narrative, what better chance of converting them to the medium when they're older, right? And this is one of the questions I most want to answer. More than any other request, I have people ask what graphic novels would be suitable for their children. Just titles, authors, and ISBNs.įor a couple years now I've wanted to do this list.
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