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Aug 3, 2023 | 
cbc.ca | Kate Beaton |Graham Annable |Jeff Lemire |Richard Van Camp
From high-flying superhero stories to introspective graphic memoirs these are some great comics to pick up this summer. Ducks by Kate BeatonDucks is an autobiographical graphic novel that recounts author Kate Beaton's time spent working in the Alberta oil sands. With the goal of paying off her student loans, Kate leaves her tight-knit seaside Nova Scotia community and heads west, where she encounters harsh realities, including the everyday trauma that no one discusses.
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Jul 26, 2023 | 
vancouversun.com | Silvia Moreno-Garcia |Liz Nugent |Julian Barnes |Graham Annable
Advertisement 1 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The 30 bestselling books from international authors this week. Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Article content NEW RELEASES Advertisement 2 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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Jul 26, 2023 | 
thebeaumontnews.ca | Silvia Moreno-Garcia |Liz Nugent |Julian Barnes |Graham Annable
The 30 bestselling books from international authors this week. Article content NEW RELEASES Advertisement 2 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content 1. The Collector, by Daniel Silva. Article content 2. Crook Manifesto: A Novel, by Colson Whitehead. 3. Silver Nitrate, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. 4. Wait For Me: A Novel, by Santa Montefiore. 5. Strange Sally Diamond: A Novel, by Liz Nugent. 6. Elizabeth Finch: A Novel, by Julian Barnes. 7.
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Jul 10, 2023 | 
powells.com | Graham Annable
Synopses & ReviewsFrom the director of the Oscar-nominated movie Boxtrolls comes a middle grade horror anthology that will leave you holding onto your blankets for dear life! Perfect for fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and Goosebumps! School is tough. School is scary. School is EERIE. No one knows this better than Davis and Emily. But they're not scared of school because of tough tests or merciless vice-principals.
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Jun 13, 2023 | 
booklistonline.com | Graham Annable
Illus. by the author.
July 2023. 368p. First Second, paper, $14.99 (9781250195036). Grades 3-6. 741.5.
REVIEW.
First published July 2023 ().
This thrilling collection of short horror comics starts in a classroom, where the students are asked to share eerie stories. Two kids, Davis and Emily, are reluctant, but their teacher, Ms. Nomed, is happy to let the other students go first.
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May 11, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Christian Trimmer |Kyle Lukoff |Gavin Grimm |Graham Annable
Noah wants many things for his upcoming birthday, but his greatest desire is “long, beautiful, wavy hair.” He doesn’t ask if he can grow his hair out, however—possibly because “some people say mean things about men with long hair,” or maybe because he doesn’t see long hair represented on many boys.
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May 4, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Graham Annable |Shideh Etaat |Ellen Oh |Jon Klassen
Amy Goldsmith. Delacorte, $18.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-593-57009-8Goldsmith plots a slow-burn psychological thriller via paranormal elements and Greek mythology in this intense debut. Seventeen-year-old British Liv Larkin is ecstatic when she lands a full-ride scholarship to SeaMester, a study abroad program aboard luxury cruise liner the Eos. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for her to travel to places like New York and Barcelona that she couldn’t dream to afford otherwise.
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May 4, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Breanna Carzoo |Graham Annable |Shideh Etaat |Ellen Oh
Breanna Carzoo. HarperCollins, $19.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-305406-6Stationed at the bottom of a traffic signal by the sea, sweet-faced Greenlight sees all the brightly colored, square-shaped vehicles speeding beneath it, but it feels deeply unappreciated and often left alone. “They stop for Redlight. They slow for Yellowlight,” it complains. “But me? It’s like they can’t get away fast enough.” Fed up, Greenlight stops shining, closing its googly eyes to shut out the world.
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May 4, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Graham Annable |Shideh Etaat |Ellen Oh |Jon Klassen
Eerie Tales from the School of ScreamsWhite-cued schoolteacher Ms. Nomed challenges her students to tell the eeriest tale they can imagine in this spine-chilling graphic novel collection by Annable (the Peter & Ernesto series), which teems with ghoulish charm and innovative flair. Bespectacled Alvin, who reads as Black, tells an 18th-century drama titled “The Village that Vanished,” in which tax collectors searching for a town called Wattersburg instead meet a lone elderly shepherd.
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May 4, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Mac Barnett |Amy Timberlake |Jon Klassen |Graham Annable
This eerie reworking of a Tyrolean folktale by Caldecott Medalist Klassen opens as pale-skinned young Otilla, lost in a snowy forest after running away, stumbles upon a mansion inhabited by a talking skull. Somber, digitally finished graphite and ink artwork imbues the forest and the mansion with shadowy verticality. The skull greets Otilla from a window with an uncomfortable but dryly funny proposition: “I will come down and let you in, but only if you promise to carry me once I do.
