 | Cartoonists club Author: Telgemeier, Raina | |
| Price: $12.29 | ||
Summary:
Makayla is bursting with ideas but doesn't know how to make them into a story. Howard loves to draw, but struggles to come up with ideas. Lynda constantly draws in her sketchbook but keeps focusing on what she feels are mistakes, and Art simply loves being creative and is excited to try something new. They come together to form The Cartoonists Club, where kids can learn about making comics and use their creativity and imagination for their own storytelling adventures! In graphic novel format.
| Added Entry - Personal Name: | McCloud, Scott |
| Accelerated Reader Information: Interest Level: MG Reading Level: 2.90 Points: 1.0 Quiz: 554245 |
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (+) (07/01/25)
School Library Journal (+) (00/02/25)
Booklist (+) (12/01/25)
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (+) (00/03/25)
The Hornbook (00/05/25)
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 03/01/2025 *Starred Review* A collaboration between McCloud, the man who defined the art form of comics with Understanding Comics, and Telgemeier, the woman who redefined the format’s audience and thus the industry itself with Smile (2010), might lead you to expect something overtly startling. Instead, by hewing closely to what made them luminaries to begin with, they have created something warmly comfortable in its presentation, quietly fascinating in its information, deeply accessible in its humanity, and excitingly perfect in its execution. Appropriately, it’s both a primer on what comics are and do and the story of a group of burgeoning cartoonists coming together. The impossibly friendly roundness and profoundly expressive faces of Telgemeier’s characters bring home the story of four kids and their distinct, heartfelt journeys, each actualized through the magic of creating together. McCloud’s perspective-expanding acumen is delivered with total clarity, made hilarious by some fourth-wall-breaking high jinks and made exciting by the creative possibilities it opens for characters and readers. Lots of back matter supports this creative end as well. Remarkably, neither through line distracts from the other, but—like the unity of words and art that makes comics run—the parts become a seamless whole that offers readers more than a single experience. A real showpiece of what happens when two masters find a way to combine their mastery. - Copyright 2025 Booklist.
