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Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans Written and Illustrated by Don Brown

September 20, 2017 by The Picture Book Review

[Review Copy Courtesy of My Public Library.] Drowned City is a multi-award winning graphic novel by acclaimed and prolific author and artist Don Brown. It is an extraordinarily vivid account of Hurricane Katrina from August to October 2005 written for ages 12 to adult. You need to read Drowned City if you haven’t already. It is an important book. Its commentary and representation of what happened during Hurricane Katrina is insightful, enlightening, and will help those of us that haven’t […]

Categories: Comic Books, Nonfiction, Picture Books, Recommended Graphic Novel • Tags: Comic Book, Graphic novel, Nonfiction

The Big Bad Fox by Benjamin Renner

September 2, 2017 by The Picture Book Review

[Reviewed from Copy Courtesy of First Second Books] The Big Bad Fox by author, illustrator, and cartoonist Benjamin Renner is hilarious, honest, and a remarkably therapeutic commentary on right and wrong, politicians and politics, real and perceived enemies, struggling with our inner nature, the insanity of love, and the sheer chaos of parenthood. (There’s more, but the previous sentence was getting way too long.) Fox, our anti-hero, is hungry and he wants chicken! Fox breaks into the hen house of […]

Categories: Children's Books, Comic Books, Picture Books, Picture Books about Animals, Picture Books about Behavior, Picture Books about Being Different, Picture Books about Chickens, Picture Books about Father • Tags: Benjamin Renner, Children, Comic Book, First Second Books, Fox, Graphic novel, Humor, The Big Bad Fox

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Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans Written and Illustrated by Don Brown

The Big Bad Fox by Benjamin Renner