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The Best Graphic Novel Lists of 2013
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We've highlighted a number of the Best Graphic Novels of 2013 lists from sources of note to libraries and schools.
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Enter The BookShelf Facebook Giveaway |
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Starting next week, Diamond BookShelf will be giving away free copies of CBLDF Presents Manga: Introductions, Challenges and Best Practices from Dark Horse Comics. Like our BookShelf Facebook page for all the details. |
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Free Comic Book Day 2014 Is Coming!
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Free Comic Book Day - the day where comic shops give away titles for free - is May 3, and libraries looking to participate will find the information they need on working with stores and getting comics to hand out here.
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BookShelf's Core Lists Updated |
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It's a new year, and Diamond BookShelf has updated our Core Lists to keep them current for collection development in libraries and schools.
Along with the top 25 perennial titles that should be in graphic novel collections, we also offer a core list of the season's releases, reflecting the lists available in the BookShelf print magazine.
To see the new lists, visit the BookShelf Core Lists page.
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Rabbits And Ronin: An Interview With Stan Sakai
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Stan Sakai has spent 30 years creating Usagi Yojimbo, his tale of a wandering rabbit samurai in fuedal Japan. He also recently brought a classic Japanese tale to audiences with 47 Ronin, from Dark Horse Comics. BookShelf spoke with Sakai about his work, and offers a preview of 47 Ronin.
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Lessons Of The Wild: An Interview With Lorraine Turner
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A young girl finds her dreams of wild horses to be more than imagination, and must trust herself if she's to save them in Lorraine Turner's Calico Horses and the Patchwork Trail from IDW Publishing. We interview Turner and feature a trailer of the novel.
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Ten Grand On the Table for the Launch of Joe's Comics
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A hitman plies his trade for angelic forces for the chance to see his lost love in Image Comics' Ten Grand, the new graphic novel from comic veteran J. Michael Straczynski's Joe's Comics imprint. We interview JMS about the new series, with a preview of the interior art.
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Can Love Be Real For Oni's A Boy And A Girl?
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A love story set in the future shows that some things will never change in A Boy and a Girl from Oni Press. See a 10-page preview here.
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DBD January-June 2014 Catalogs Now Available |
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Librarians who'd like a look ahead at the graphic novels coming out in the first half of 2014 can get that information with the Diamond Book Distributors January-June 2014 new releases catalogs. Available in print and as pdf downloads, the catalogs list the upcoming items from DBD's graphic novel, prose, and gaming publishers, and includes some of the most anticipated comics and genre prose books coming out this
year.
For print copies, contact Allan Greenberg, or to download simply visit the Diamond Book Distributors web site.
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Katie's Korner: Graphic Novel Reviews for Schools and Libraries
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Dr. Katie Monnin reviews First Second's Fairy Tale Comics, and Scholastic's Star Wars: Jedi Academy, with suggestions for how they could be used in a classroom or workshop setting.
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New Releases: Available Now |
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Each month, BookShelf presents a list of newly released graphic novels. Here are descriptions of titles that shipped in December 2013, broken down by age rating.
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Upcoming Releases: April |
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Each month, BookShelf presents a list of upcoming graphic novels from the current issue of PREVIEWS, the Comic Shop's Catalog. Here are descriptions of upcoming titles, due for release starting in April 2014, broken down by age rating.
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