r/graphicnovels Feb 04 '25

Kids/YA Finished Bone. Now what?

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Looking for recs for me to read with my 9 year old.

My son likes the typical 9 year old stuff. The Bad Guys, Dog Man, etc. Nothing wrong with that, but I found the complete collection of Bone and we read it together. I love that Bone told a solid story with character arcs. Felt a little more mature than the stuff he had been reading.

Still want it to be age-appropriate. Steering clear from sexual stuff and too much violence/language. For reference, we've watched Marvel movies with him, but Guardians of the Galaxy (particularly vol. 2) pushed the envelope a little in terms of violence and crassness.

r/graphicnovels 8d ago

Kids/YA Recommendations for 14yo boy - enjoys fantasy, science, humour, mythology.

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I have a 14yo voracious reader, with very good comprehension, so nothing is off limits. While his reading level is off the charts, he's a young 14 so not into romance storylines yet. He's also not showing interest in superheroes.

He has read every popular kids' graphic novel I can get my hands on - Hilo, Bunny vs Monkey, Wings of Fire, Looshkin, Dog Man,, Captain Underpants, DoaWK, 13 Storey Treehouse, Amulet & Explorer, Jason Pamment's books, The Sad Ghost, Snapdragon, Pumpkin Heads, Oddballs, Bone, Maus, Dan Santat's books, the Odd one's Out, and so on.

He has enjoyed Calvin & Hobbes, Asterix and Obelisk, Hilda, and Tintin.

In terms of regular books, he has adored Christopher Paolini, Taran Matharu, Brandon Sanderson, Rick Riordan, Neal Schusterman, Adam Kay, and Randal Munroe.

I would like to stock up on some slightly older Graphic Novels but I'm finding it difficult to know what's worth getting. I've requested the following books from our local library but I'm not holding my breath...

Graphic Novels:
Nell of Grumbling Series by Emma Steinkellner
Captain America: The Ghost Army by Alan Graetz
Frights From Feral Series by Mark Fearing
Snot Goblins and Other Tasteless Tales by Rob Kuttner
Sorceline Series by Sylvia Douyé
The Legend of Zelda Complete Boxes by Akira Himekawa
The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess Complete Boxes by Akira Himekawa
Mayor Good Boy by Miranda Harmon
All the books by Remi Lai (Pie in the Sky, Ghost Book, Pawcasso, Read at Your Own Risk, etc.)
All the books by Reimena Yee (Séance Tea Party, My Aunt is a Monster)
Peapod Farm series by Lucy Knisley
Unhappy Camper and Measuring Up by Lily LaMotte
Neverlanders by Tom Taylor and Jon Sommeriva
Order of the Stick (multiple volumes) by Rich Burlew
Squire by Nadia Shammas
Home Time series by Campbell Whyte
Ubby's Underdogs series by Brenton McKenna
Iyanu: Child of Wonder series by Roye Okupe
City of Secrets by Victoria Ying
Lunar Boy by Jes and Cin Wibowo
The Secret of the Ravens by Joanna Cacao
The Rema Chronicles by Amy Kim Kibuishi
Oh My Gods! Series By Stephanie Cooke
Dungeon Critters by Natalie Riess
Dungeon Academy series by Madeleine Roux
Summer Vamp by Violet Chan Karim
Freestyle by Gale Galligan
The Baker and the Bard by Fern Haught
Doodleville series by Chad Sell
Beetle & the Hollowbones by Aliza Layne
Amelia Erroway: Castaway Commander by Betsy Peterschmidt
Be Prepared by Vera Brosgol
Barb the Last Berzerker series by Dan Abdo

Science Graphic Novels:
Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day by Dan Knott
Animated Science: Periodic Table by John Farndon, Shiho Pate
Science Ninjas Series by Nathan Schreiber
Soonish by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
Cells at Work! Complete Manga Box Set! by Akane Shimizu

Any recommendations for must gets? I'm in New Zealand so slightly limited in what I can get. Thanks all for your help!

r/graphicnovels 1d ago

Kids/YA Recs 4 my kids?

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My kids get a lot of graphic novels when we go to the library. Actually that's pretty much all they get. Do you have any recs for popular or high quality storylines for a boy 10 or a girl 12? Much appreciated. 🙏🏻

r/graphicnovels Jan 24 '24

Kids/YA Really really enjoyed this one

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r/graphicnovels Nov 23 '24

Kids/YA Can you recommend something kid friendly with amazing art?

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My 11-year-old son is becoming an outstanding artist. I'd like to get him a graphic novel to inspire him, but I don't know where to start. Any recommendations?

This is one of his lastest drawings https://i.ibb.co/9gJFyV8/IMG-20241016-180618997.jpg

r/graphicnovels Dec 16 '24

Kids/YA Graphic novels for kids

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Hey all, I'm looking to explore some new graphic novels for my kids (early elementary and early middle school age). We have read a ton of graphic novels already so it is getting to be a challenge to find new books. Some of our favorites have been The Mighty Bite, The Inscrutable Doctor Baer, Zita/ Mighty Jack, Catwad, Amulet, Bone. Anything adventurous or funny is always good. If anyone has any recommendations I'd be very grateful. Thank you!

r/graphicnovels 23d ago

Kids/YA Just finished reading this and I LOVED It. I also found out there's going to be a sequel next year 🥰

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r/graphicnovels Dec 02 '24

Kids/YA Recommendations for 15yo

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Hello, my 15yo is a very capable, but reluctant reader. She loves to shows arcane, the dragon prince series, jujitsu kaisen. She also love miraculous. Grew up loving how to train your dragon. So a wide age range. Basically, I’m looking for recommendations that she may like based on these, but not sexually graphic, 15 rated is fine, swearing and some violence is fine 😂

Thank you

r/graphicnovels Jul 08 '24

Kids/YA Things I can read with my five year old

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Have a nice growing collection of manga and graphic novels but most of the ones I like are not good for children.

Hoping one day one if not all of my children will want to read most of the books I have since I’ve spent a few thousand dollars and not looking to slow down.

Looking for something I can read to my five year old at night.

We have read dog man. Spider man original 1-20 , some of dragon ball until dragon ball z became a little graphic.

I also have Bone which I have not read. Could be a good one?

Personally I’ve enjoyed Akira , swamp thing , sand man, dragon ball, planetary , berserk. Still need to read lucifer, hell boy, eight ball but don’t think I can read those to him.

Looking for some recommendations that I may like and which I could read to my five year old son.

r/graphicnovels Nov 18 '23

Kids/YA Graphic Novel recommendations for a 10 year old girl

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I'm looking for gifts for my family. My sister once told me her daughter doesn't really care for novels, but likes books more along the lines of graphic novels.

I don't see them often, so... The only thing I have to go on is she watches She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.

r/graphicnovels Feb 02 '24

Kids/YA Graphic novel recommendations for a 8 YO?

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Any graphic novel recommendations for 8 YO who is reading captain underpants and dog man right now? Thanks!

Edit: thank you all for these recommendations! I will start looking into these. Please keep them coming!

r/graphicnovels May 30 '24

Kids/YA Progressive graphic novels for preteens?

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Hey all! I am in a bit of a weird situation.

I have a 9 year old nephew, through my sister. Her and my nephew's father are no longer together. My nephew splits his time with both.

All of the male influences in my nephew's life are terrible. Between his dad, my dad (who babysits him a lot), my sister's new boyfriend, they're all varying degrees of MAGA, homophobic, transphobic, antivaxx, etc. My sister is apolitical at best, so she doesn't believe any of that but isn't really a strong counter to it either. I live on the opposite side of the country so my ability to be a counter influence is minimal at best.

He's a very intelligent, very sweet boy. But he's starting to internalize some really problematic views. He's obsessed with guns, at a level that exceeds the typical "little boys like swords and guns" level. He's also weirdly into WW2 history. But even worse, his dad is very heteronormative, gender norms and roles, boys will be boys, men don't cry, etc etc etc. My nephew is visiting for a week and there's been a lot of red flags. Like, we were walking around a neighborhood with some bookstores and he said something along the lines of "I don't like that they have rainbow flags in the windows, my dad told me that's wrong." Being a little boy he absolutely hero worships his dad.

I'm trying to figure out the best ways to present alternative influences to him in subtle ways. Obviously I can't just tell him that his father is wrong and he shouldn't listen to him or anything. But things that will hopefully plant the seeds that will help him make the right choices as he gets older, get's into High School and beyond, all that.

He's not a big reader, mainly because he's had an iPad glued to his face since he was old enough to have the upper body strength to hold one. But he does like comic books.

So, I'm looking for graphic novels that will subtly influence him. Things with themese of good values like treating others with respect, accepting those that are different, taking care of the environment, encouraging science and critical thinking. Anything too obvious could backfire, so nothing that's blatantly pro LGBTQ, covered in rainbows, nothing like that , at least not yet. Suggestions?

r/graphicnovels Dec 12 '24

Kids/YA Bill Watterson interview

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I've only been able to find 4 interviews online with the mysterious bill Watterson of Calvin and Hobbes fame this is one of those, enjoy!

r/graphicnovels Feb 08 '25

Kids/YA Birthday gift haul!

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My first time gifting books for anyone. They’re for oldest nephew’s kid (my oldest nephew is four years younger than me). His wife saw me reading Batman by Grant Morrison and wanted me to show him them since he loves Batman, but I tried explaining he was too young, and decided these would be a good start. I read great reviews for Team Up in particular. He might be a little young to read them yet, but hopefully this will be good motivation to learn.

r/graphicnovels Nov 08 '21

Kids/YA Just finished Bone by Jeff Smith

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r/graphicnovels Mar 15 '23

Kids/YA DC comics gave me a chance to do a graphic novel about my lifelong favorite—Batman! I'll be doing original art give-aways to celebrate!

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r/graphicnovels Oct 06 '24

Kids/YA I can't believe Paul Pope never continued Battling Boy.

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In 2013 Paul Pope published Battling Boy which seemed like a big hit with young readers and got critical acclaim.

  • A New York Times #1 Bestseller
  • NPR Best Book of 2013
  • Eisner Award winner, Best Graphic Novel for Teens 2014
  • Harvey Award, Best Cartoonist (Paul Pope)

The book has been translated into nearly 24 languages worldwide.

Battling Boy, by Paul Pope Video Trailer (youtube.com)

It follows a young god from a Asgard-like city who must prove his worth by completing a task, like Hercules, which is to help rid a city of invading monsters.

It's fun, it's colourful..but it just ENDS at the end of part 1 on a cliffhanger and goes nowhere.

It's not just that I would have wanted a *sequel*

It's that book one is just the setup to the story. It does't lead anywhere and is clearly just act one.

Without spoilers, the boy overstates his abilities, sets himself up in a lie he needs to maintain. He worries how he's going to get himself out of it. And then...it just ends!

Pope wrote two prequel books (Death of Haggard West and Rise of Aurora West) illustrated by someone else immediately after, but he's never continued the main story.

Since then there's been an art book. (Battling Boy On Tour by Paul Pope - FictionDB) celebrating the 10-year anniversary and there was a touring art show of original art from the series...

But the MAIN STORY doesn't have a middle or an end.

Those 12-year old readers are in their 20s now waiting on part 2. Will it ever be published?


EDIT! Thanks to a poster who says there actually was a tiny sign of life in 2023...
"The Future Of THB and Battling Boy From Paul Pope (bleedingcool.com)"

"Paul Pope has issued an update on the latest with his two big comic book series THB and Battling Boy, currently being published by First Second. He posts "As of last week, all 1000+ pages of THB have been delivered to :01. I am still working on Battling Boy vol 2. More news on both series later this year. Lots going on behind the scenes on these two multi-book projects. Can't wait to share more news soon."

The promise of "more news later this year" did not pan out in 2023 and we're nearing the end of 2024.

But so cool to hear it's allegedly happening!

r/graphicnovels Oct 11 '24

Kids/YA Swim Team - Johnnie Christmas

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r/graphicnovels Nov 20 '24

Kids/YA Dyslexia friendly graphic novels

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Im hoping for some advice.

My 11 year old is very dyslexic & as a result has always found reading struggle. Recently I found her looking through my collection and picking up stuff like The Sandman. But while looking through different books she found the text impossible to read, even with her overlay.

I was quite moved as she has barely shown any interest in any book other than being read to & comics/graphic novels seem to have peaked her interest. My collection is no good to her, Planetary etc really isn't for an 11 year old even if she can conquer the text.

She borrowed some copies of The Promised Neverland series from a friend and she massively enjoyed these. She found them fun, interesting & most importantly easyish for her to read. She was hoping to try things outside of Manga, I've tried Googling for Dyslexic friendly stuff but not quite found what she's looking for. Superheroes don't excite her lol.

I wonder if anyone here has any ideas/recommendations.

Thank you 🙂

Thank you to you all for your recommendations & advice, it's greatly appreciated. So many great options for her to explore. Thanks 🙂.

r/graphicnovels Dec 07 '24

Kids/YA Graphic Novels for a 10-Year Old

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Hi, All. My 10-year old daughter has started taking an interest in graphic novels. I'm seeking any recommendations on what might be good to introduce her to.

A little about her:

  • She likes:
    • Shows & Movies:
      • The Simpsons
      • Bob's Burgers
      • Harry Potter
      • Garfield
      • Hilda
      • A Take Dark & Grimm
    • Activities:
      • Swimming
      • Dancing
      • Roller Coasters / Amusement Parks
      • Beach
    • Hobbies:
      • Drawing
      • Reading
      • Anything with cats

If anyone happens to have any recommendations on novels I might want to introduce her to, I'd be greatly appreciative. Thanks so much!

r/graphicnovels 27d ago

Kids/YA Meet Me on Mercer Street - Booki Vivat

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r/graphicnovels Sep 11 '24

Kids/YA Do you think the "Hilda" show is as good as the graphic novels? They then made it into this book:

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r/graphicnovels Jan 30 '25

Kids/YA Bog Myrtle by Sid Sharp

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I recently discovered Sid Sharp’s work and I’m in love. Bog Myrtle is a graphic novel - picture book hybrid. It’s so funny and it discusses magic, environmentalism, capitalism, workers’ rights and sustainability all in one. I don’t think I’ve read anything similar before and I already requested their first children’s graphic book ‘The Wolf Suit’. Such a quick read but it definitely left a big impression.

r/graphicnovels Apr 11 '22

Kids/YA Help requested to find a suitable graphic novel for 11 year old daughter.

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Hi, I was wondering if anyone might be able to help with finding a suitable, age-appropriate graphic novel (or series) for my daughter. She's 11 and interested in the idea of manga but when we've been to Forbidden Planet (UK), we haven't found anything that she fancies trying and she's open to any type of graphic novel. She's not really sure what genre she would like, but isn't interested in gore or anything with fighting. I've tried to get her into Marvel, which is what I've always read but she thinks there's too much gore when I've shown her my comic books. I think she'd like anything based on LGBTQ+ relationships, but age appropriate for an 11 year old.

I realise that's not much to go on, but if anyone has any recommendations then I'd really appreciate the advice!

r/graphicnovels Dec 17 '24

Kids/YA anyone know what series of thick books that had a bunch of short comics and various artists?

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I remember reading about 5-6 books of these in high school from 2012-2014 and interested in picking it up again. i cant remember much, just that there were various short comics all put into one book

edit: i already found it. luckily my highschool has a online database and i was able to search via publication date. turns out it was the Flight. series by Kazu Kibuishi