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Visual Literacy Kickoff Flier

 

Powerpoint presentation from April's Visual Literacy CE Class

 

Graphic Novels/Manga Resources: 

 

Bookmaking Resources:

  • This brochure, available in color or black and white, begins to explain why bookmaking is an important tool for children and offers bookmaking titles you can use to plan a bookmaking program at your library!

 

Zine Resources:

  • VOYA Teens and Zines (PDF)

  • Check out this brochure (or is it a zine?) on building a zine collection at your library!

  • IF you think you might like to learn more about zines, check this booklet out, created by Zine-Queen, Kelly Rottmund

    • If you want to teach your patrons about zines but don't have time to plan a program, check out this Zine Info Sheet you can print and leave around the library!

  • Grrrl Zine Network: The Grrrl, Lady, Queer, and Trans Folk zines written up on this site are grouped by country of origin. This site includes, and is not limited to, links to zine resources, zine workshops, dissertations written about zines, and interviews with international zinesters.  

  • Zine Street: www.zinestreet.com  - Contains lists of distros (and tells you whether or not they are still active), stores and libraries where zines can be found. An incredibly comprehensive resource.

  • Zine World   - A Reader’s Guide to the Underground Press 

  • Online Distribution: Zine Distro  -  If you set up an account with zine distro you can download the zines available on the site FOR FREE.  “Download! Print! Read!”

  • Article in the Boston Globe on issues surrounding cataloging Zines

  • If you join the Zine Librarians Discussion List you can access the list of Zine Fests to see if any are happening near you. 

 

Zine Events:

  • Allied Media Conference - “an annual, weekend-long gathering of influential, alternative media-makers and committed social justice activists…a vital contributor to the growth of a large-scale social movement around media that centers issues of race, class, gender and other systems of oppression at its focal point.” 
 

Visual Literacy For Toddlers:

  • Click here for picture book titles recommended by librarians across the country.  The illustrations in these books mimic the text (reinforcing concepts), make children guess what's happening in the story, or require readers to find things in the pictures...among others!  Multiple titles by the same author are grouped together.  Take a look and send any of your recommendations our way to rottmundk@einetwork.net!

 

 

Great Visual Literacy Related Sites:

 

 

Graphic Novel List (Developed by Bethel Park Library)

Author Title Publication Information Age Appropriate Price Summary
Shanower, Eric Age of Bronze: A Thousand Ships Orange, CA: Baker & Taylor, 2001 16 & up 19.95

"Drawn from the myths and legends of centuries, A thousand ships presents a new for the twenty-first century the complete prelude to the Trojan war- each sensual touch, every savage blow, the smiles and tear, the lust and betrayal, the entire tapestry of drama and action."--Cover.
Jackson, Sherard Assembly Pocket Manga San Antonio, TX : Antarctic Press, 2004 14 & up 9.99 In a land where war and rain are constant, the only way to pull your life together is sacrifice. A tale exploring the line between reality and perception unfolds in a war-torn socialist city-state.
Azuma, Kiyohiko Azumanga Daioh: Volume 1 Houston, Tex. : ADV Manga, 2003 11 & up 9.99 Translated from the Japanese. Some stories are self-containted, while other continues over several strips. This collection of translated Japanese manga, the inspiration for the movie of the same name, tells the story of a groupd of high school students in Japan, their English teacher Yukariand the new student Chiyo.
Morse, Scott Barefoot Serpent Marietta, GA : Top Shelf Productions YA/ Adult 14.95 During a one-day friendship with a boy while on vacation with her family in Hawaii, a small girl's life is changed forever as they explore the island and themselves.
Smith, Jeff Bone: Volume 1: Out from Boneville New York : Graphix/Scholastic, 2005 9 & up 9.99 The chapters in this book were originally published in the comic book Bone. When Fone Bone, Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone are run out of Boneville, they because seperated in a forest valley. There they begin an adventre of a lifetime. Volume one in a nine-book epic, this version is smaller and in color.
Ottaviani, Jim Dignifying science :
stories about women scientists		 Ann Arbor, MI : G.T. Labs, 1999. 10-17 16.95 Though based on fact, this book is in equal measure history and historica fiction--Preface. This is the second in the series of graphic novels about scientists. This volume tells the stoies of Marie Curie, Emmy Noether, Lisa Meitner, Rosalind Franklin, Barbara McClinktock, Birute Gaidikes, and Hedy Lamarr.
Thompson, Craig Good-bye, Chunky Rice Marietta, Ga. : Top Shelf Productions, 2002 Adult 12.95 Chunky Rice learns important lessons about friendship, loss and lonesliness.
Sizar, Paul Little White Mouse: Omnibus Edition Kalamazoo : Cafe Digital Studios, 2006  1-17 24.95 Sixteen-yea-old Loo Th'eng is the sole survivor of a starliner disaster that claimed her sister's life. She's stranded on a remote, automated mining satellitle, her only companions two driod and a ghost, but time is running out--she must find a way to escape before the satellite's life support system is shut down perminanetly.
Busiek, Kurt Marvels New York, N.Y. : Marvel Comics, 1994 12 & up 19.95 Contains materials originally published in magazine form as Marvels 1-4 and Marvels 0--Colophon. A wonder-filled look at the Marvel Universe through the eyes of an ordinary man-in-the-street.
Kuper, Peter The Metamorphosis New York : Crown, 2003
 Adult 10.00 In graphic novel format, reworks Kafka's tale of family and alienation featuring traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who awakens in his family home one morning to find himself turned into a giant bug.
Sizer, Paul Moped Army Kalamazoo, MI : Cafe Digital Comics, 2005 YA/Adult 12.95 Simone is a young rich girl who lives in the mile-high steel towers of Upper Bolt Harbor almost 300 years in the future. When Simone becaomes aquainted with the Moped Army that runs beneath her city, she must choose between the life she knows or becoming her own personl A teen survival clique in the year 2277 in Rust City--the old city of Bolt Harbor upon which a new one was built--has resurrected the Moped Army.
Kishimoto, Masashi Naruto: Volume 1 San Francisco, CA : Viz, 2003 13 & up 7.95 Translated from the Japanese. Naruto is in training to become a ninja, but he's not even the best student in his class. Worse, he keeps getting picked on by Sakura, who is frustrated beause Sasuke, the best student, doesn't return her affections.
Miyazaki, Hayao Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind San Francisco, CA : VIZ, LLC., 2004 13 & up 9.95 Translated from the Japanese. In a long-ago war, humankind, in its hubris, set off a devestating ecological disaster. Nausicaa, a compassionate young princess, and her allies battle to heal a wounded planet and its inhabitants.
Espinosa, Rod Neotopia color Manga San Antonio, Tex. : Antarctic Press, 2004  11-16  9.99 In a world where Man has long last learned to live in harmony with Nautre, the citizens of Mathenia live a good life under their beloved Grand Duchess. Unknown to them, she is Nalyn, a commoner standing in for Nydia, the real Duchess.
 Winick, Judd Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss and what I learned. New York : Henry Holt, 2000  14 & up  16.00 In a graphic novel format, this book describes the friendship between two roommates on the MTV show The Real World, one of whom died of AIDS.
 Watsuki, Nobuhiro Rurouni Kenshin: Vol 1  San Francisco, CA : VIZ, 2003  14-17  7.95  A warrior arose 140 years ago in Kyoto, with the coming of the American "black ships," who helped introduce the progressive age known as Meiji and then vanished. This tale begins in the 11th year of Meiji, in Tokyo. With his killer blade, legend-warrior Hitokiri Battosai once helped close the turbulent Bakumatsu era and slashed open the progressive age known as Meiji....
 Gaiman, Neil The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes  New York : DC Comics, 1995  YA/Adult  19.99 Previously published in magazine form, Gaiman weaves the story of a man interested in capturing the physical manifestation of Death but who instead captures in King of Dreams.
Talbot, Bryan The Tale of One Bad Rat  Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Books, 1995  13 & up  14.95 Helen Potter, a victim of sexual abuse at the hands of her father, runs away to London. As she works her way through the country and memories of Beatrix Potter, she begins to heal.
 Sakai, Stan  Usagi Yojimbo: Book 3  Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Comics, 1989  10 & up  15.95  This book collects issues 7-12 of the Dark Horse comic-book series Usagi Yojimbo Volume III. The tale of Usagi Yojimbo is a masterful adaptation of samurai legend to sequential art and a parabole of sixteenth-century Japan.
 Sakai, Stan  Usagi Yojimbo: Grasscutter II  Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Comics, 2002  10 & up  15.95  This book collects issues 13-22 of the Dark Horse comic-book series Usagi Yojimbo Volume III.The tale of Usagi Yojimbo is a masterful adaptation of samurai legend to sequential art and a parabole of sixteenth-century Japan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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