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Roundtable: Celebrating the Fourth
Independence Day is an excuse for fireworks and barbecues, but it’s also a good opportunity to think about how our nation was formed and evolved. With that in mind, the Good Comics for Kids bloggers...
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Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales
Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales by Nathan Hale Vol. 1: One Dead Spy 978-1-4197-0396-6. 128 pp. Vol. 2: Big Bad Ironclad 978-1-4197-0395-9. 128 pp. Published by Amulet Books, 2012 Recommended for grades...
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Q&A with creator Nathan Hale, Part 1
Nathan Hale is the creator of the new series Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales from Amulet Books. It’s a fun graphic novel approach to true stories from the United States told from the point of view of...
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Links: Viz announces Ben 10 graphic novels; Archie meets Glee
Viz Media has launched a kid-oriented comics app, sticky DOT comics, which features a slew of Pokemon manga as well as their Voltron Force, Redekai, and Mameshiba graphic novels; Mr. Men and Little...
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Links: Kevin Keller’s first kiss
Archie Comics’ openly gay character Kevin Keller gets his first kiss in August—and provokes the ire of a Riverdale mom, whose reaction Veronica catches on video. Archie writer and artist Dan Parent...
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Interview: Nathan Hale on The Donner Dinner Party
Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales books are a cheeky take on American history, but they are also sophisticated graphic storytelling that help bring the events to life in ways that simple prose could not....
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Review: Hazardous Tales. Treaties, Trenches, Mud and Blood
Every time I learned about World War I in school it was a brief overview of one of the deadliest wars in history. The version I learned went something like this: Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated....
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Review: ‘Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: Alamo All Stars’
I’ve read a number of short graphic novels about the Alamo. Those books were fine, but they were aimed at a school library market that was looking to cater to libraries needing accessible reads for...
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Review: ‘One Trick Pony’
One Trick Pony Writer/artist: Nathan Hale Abrams Books; $14.95 In his book series Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales, cartoonist Nathan Hale presents thrilling adventure stories culled from American...
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Review: ‘Lafayette’
Lafayette by Nathan Hale Amulet Books, $13.99 Ages 8-12 The latest installment (the eighth!) of the popular graphic history series Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales returns to the setting of the first...
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Review: ‘Apocalypse Taco’
Apocalypse TacoWriter/artist: Nathan HaleAbrams; $14.99 Cartoonist Nathan Hale’s latest original work is an unusual hybrid of a light-hearted, kid-friendly adventure story with honest-to-goodness...
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Links: Viz announces Ben 10 graphic novels; Archie meets Glee
Viz Media has launched a kid-oriented comics app, sticky DOT comics, which features a slew of Pokemon manga as well as their Voltron Force, Redekai, and Mameshiba graphic novels; Mr. Men and Little...
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Links: Kevin Keller’s first kiss
Archie Comics’ openly gay character Kevin Keller gets his first kiss in August—and provokes the ire of a Riverdale mom, whose reaction Veronica catches on video. Archie writer and artist Dan Parent...
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Interview: Nathan Hale on The Donner Dinner Party
Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales books are a cheeky take on American history, but they are also sophisticated graphic storytelling that help bring the events to life in ways that simple prose could not....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Hazardous Tales. Treaties, Trenches, Mud and Blood
Every time I learned about World War I in school it was a brief overview of one of the deadliest wars in history. The version I learned went something like this: Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated....
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Review: ‘Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: Alamo All Stars’
I’ve read a number of short graphic novels about the Alamo. Those books were fine, but they were aimed at a school library market that was looking to cater to libraries needing accessible reads for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: ‘One Trick Pony’
One Trick Pony Writer/artist: Nathan Hale Abrams Books; $14.95 In his book series Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales, cartoonist Nathan Hale presents thrilling adventure stories culled from American...
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Review: ‘Lafayette’
Lafayette by Nathan Hale Amulet Books, $13.99 Ages 8-12 The latest installment (the eighth!) of the popular graphic history series Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales returns to the setting of the first...
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Review: ‘Apocalypse Taco’
Apocalypse TacoWriter/artist: Nathan HaleAbrams; $14.99 Cartoonist Nathan Hale’s latest original work is an unusual hybrid of a light-hearted, kid-friendly adventure story with honest-to-goodness...
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Cold War Correspondent (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales) | Review
Cold War Correspondent: A Korean War Taleby Nathan HaleAmulet Books, $14.99Grades 3-7 The eleventh in the Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales series — an impressive run! — covers the most modern period yet....
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