reading list

[bitty]

Loki: Agent of Asgard, Vol. II, and
Loki: Agent of Asgard, Vol. III, Ewing & Garbett
Lagoon, Nnedi Okorafor
Lumberjanes, Vol. I, and
Lumberjanes, Vol. II, Noelle Stevenson
Hereville: How Mirka Caught a Fish, Barry Deutsch (per mabfan)

"The Way Home", Linda Nagata
"Today I am Paul", Martin L. Shoemaker
"I Don't Care About Your MFA: On Writing vs.

Comments

[geminigirl]

Naomi devoured the first two Hereville books. For the first night of Hanukkah the kids always get a Jewish-related book (or two this year.) She got the books on Sunday, she'd finished them within three days, and is begging for more. I'll get her the third one for her birthday I think, if I don't cave in and give it to her sooner.

I haven't read Lumberjanes yet, so I have no idea if it's something I should offer her yet (there are boundaries-if she comes across an "inappropriate" book on her own, and chooses to pick it up and read it, it's one thing...if I offer the same book to her, it's different.) If it's a "wait a little longer" (I think the recommendation is grade 5 and up but I don't know if that's a content or a reading level thing,) I may look at it six months from now.

The kid is a huge graphic novel fan.

[bitty]

The reading level thing might be the word play. LOTS of puns. Each issue opens with a printed page excerpted from the Lumberjanes manual, much of it tongue-in-cheek. But nothing inappropriate.

The only possible content issue would be monster-related. It depends on whether or not Naomi gets scared easily. The protagonists are attacked by lots of monsters.

[geminigirl]

Not really worried about monsters...she's good about setting it down if it's too much for her. Other than a biograph of Martin Luther King Jr (picture book version when she was 4) she's never been really frightened by a book. (She was afraid of bombs because "bad people bombed Martin's house, Mama.")

Puns though, she might handle. Sounds like the kind of thing I can put on her "to read" shelf, she may pick it up, check it out and decide it's too hard to read and put it back until later. She's surprisingly good about the "picking up later" part.