Diamond BookShelf e-Newsletter for September 2015

Published: Fri, 09/04/15

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Banned Books Week 2015 Celebrates The Freedom To Read

The American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom celebrates the efforts to preserve readers' right to read what they please with this year's Banned Books Week, Sept. 27-Oct. 3.

Lemire And Nguyen Take To The Stars In Descender

Writer Jeff Lemire and artist Dustin Nguyen discuss their new sci-fi series which starts in Descender Vol. 1: Tin Stars from Image Comics, about a boy robot on the run from bounty hunters.

Messing-Up, Making Music, & Crafting Comics: Liz Suburbia Delves into Sacred Heart

The adults of Alexandria have all bailed ship, and it's up to the kids they've left behind to pick up the pieces. In this interview, Liz Suburbia talks about her upcoming graphic novel Sacred Heart from Fantagraphics Books.

IDW Presents New Disney Duck Adventures

IDW Publishing presents fowl reading for Walt Disney fans young and old with new graphic novel series featuring Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge.

Joe Books Saves The Day With The Big Hero 6 Cinestory

The Academy Award-winning superhero film from Disney is adapted into a hit graphic novel with the Disney's Big Hero 6 Cinestory from Joe Books.

Fashion Fights Fascists In Udon's Kill La Kill Manga

The hit anime from the creative team behind gets adapted into a manga about battling high schoolers and their super-powered uniforms in Kill la Kill Vol. 1 from Udon Entertainment.

BookShelf's Recommended Reads for Fall 2015

The colors are changing, the air is getting cooler, and the time for reading inside has come again. In honor of Fall, BookShelf offers a list of graphic novel highlights released from September through November 2015.

Katie's Korner : Graphic Novel Reviews and Lesson Plans

Dr. Katie Monnin reviews Oni Press's The Grogan Adventures: Catfoot's Vengeance, with suggestions for how it could be used in a classroom or workshop setting.

New Graphic Novels on Net Galley

BookShelf offers a list of the newest titles now available for viewing on Net Galley, including IDW's Jem and the Holograms, Image Comics's Descender Vol. 1, Dynamite Entertainment's Dresden Files: Down Town, and Top Shelf's Fear and Loathing in LAs Vegas.

Bestsellers & New/Upcoming Releases

Top 50 GNs for July 2015

For educators or librarians interested to know which graphic novels are bestsellers at your local comic shop, DC Comics's Fables Vol. 22 is the best-selling graphic novel in Diamond's Top 50 Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks for July. Look for August's bestsellers on the BookShelf site Friday, September 11.

Top 25 Manga for July 2015

In order for librarians and educators to be informed about what people are buying from local comic shops, BookShelf presents the Top 25 Manga for July, led by DC Comics's Batman: The Jiro Kuwata Batmanga Vol. 2. Look for August's bestsellers on the BookShelf site Friday, September 11.

New Releases: Available Now

Each month, BookShelf presents a list of newly released graphic novels. Here are descriptions of titles that shipped in August 2015, broken down by age rating.

Upcoming Releases: November

Each month, BookShelf presents a list of upcoming graphic novels from the current issue of PREVIEWS, the Comic Shop's Catalog. Here are upcoming titles due for release starting in November 2015, broken down by age rating.

Useful Links

Libraries & Makerspaces: Cosplayers Welcome!
Justin Switzer, Young Adult Librarian at Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library, shows how libraries can bring together maker and comics communities with cosplay-inspired programming.

The Diamond Graphic Novel Common Core List
The Diamond Graphic Novel Common Core List offers over 100 graphic novels that will fit into a Common Core curriculum, along with resources including Library Classifications, Subject Headings, and Core Standards which apply to each book.

Diamond BookShelf Core Lists
Bookshelf presents a list of essential titles broken down by age group. These lists are compiled taking into account literary quality, entertainment value and age group suitability.

Lesson Plans
Here at BookShelf, we plan to help out teachers by providing lesson plans for selected titles, crafted by qualified educators. To get started, we have provided lesson plans for Elementary, Middle and High School using several popular graphic novels.

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