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Diamond BookShelf Magazine #22 Now Available
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Hosting a conference, workshop, or lecture on graphic novels in schools and/or libraries? Featuring a look at kid-friendly graphic novels, Issue #22 of the BookShelf Magazine is a handy resource for librarians, educators, and more!
Here's what you'll find in print edition of BookShelf #22:
- Artist Nate Powell discusses IDW/Top Shelf's March Book Three
- Image Comics shows readers how She Changed Comics with their new history of female creators
- Find recommended Graphic Novel Memoirs for Middle School students
- See how graphic novels are used in adult education
- Get an 8-bit education with Dynamite's Art of Atari
- And much more!
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Eisner Grant Winner Atlantic City Free Public Library
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| The Atlantic City Free Public Library in Atlantic City, NJ, was recently announced as the winner of the 2016 Will Eisner Graphic Novel Growth Grant.
Here, we speak with ACFPL Head of Youth Services Maureen Moffit about their grant-winning program.
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The Scholar's Corner: Karen Green
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Diamond BookShelf sister site Scoop debuts a new column, The Scholar's Corner, featuring interviews with scholars whose work involves comics and graphic novels. Their first article spotlights Karen Green, Adjunct Curator for Comics and Cartoons in the Columbia Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
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Banned Books Week Celebrates Diversity
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| Banned Books Week - which celebrates the freedom to read by highlighting challenges to it - takes place September 25 - October 1. This year's theme is Diversity, and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund offers libraries resources to help in their programming. |
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Useful Links
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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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