With contributions by:

Eti Berland, Rebecca A. Brown, Christiane Buuck, Joanna C. Davis-McElligatt, Rachel Dean-Ruzicka, Karly Marie Grice, Mary Beth Hines, Krystal Howard, Aaron Kashtan, Michael L. Kersulov, Catherine Kyle, David E. Low, Anuja Madan, Meghann Meeusen, Rachel L. Rickard Rebellino, Rebecca Rupert, Cathy Ryan, Joe Sutliff Sanders, Joseph Michael Sommers, Marni Stanley, Gwen Athene Tarbox, Sarah Thaller, Annette Wannamaker, and Lance Weldy

One of the main major adjustments in literature for kids and teenagers over the past 20 years has been the resurgence of comics. Educators and librarians extol the advantages of comics examining, and more and more, children�s and YA comics and comics hybrids have gained significant prizes, together with the Printz Award and the nationwide booklet Award. regardless of the recognition and impression of children�s and YA photograph novels, the style has no longer bought sufficient scholarly attention.

Graphic Novels for kids and younger Adults is the 1st publication to provide a serious exam of children�s and YA comics. The anthology is split into 5 sections, constitution and narration; transmedia; pedagogy; gender and sexuality; and id, that replicate an important matters and routine themes in comics scholarship through the twenty-first century. The participants are likewise drawn from a various array of disciplines�English, schooling, library technology, and high quality arts. jointly, they research numerous modern comics, together with such hugely well known sequence as Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Lumberjanes; Eisner award-winning image novels by way of Gene Luen Yang, Nate Powell, Mariko Tamaki, and Jillian Tamaki; in addition to volumes usually challenged to be used in secondary school rooms, similar to Raina Telgemeier�s Drama and Sherman Alexie�s The totally precise Diary of a Part-Time Indian.