{"id":853,"date":"2013-01-07T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=853"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:37:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:37:39","slug":"graphic-novels-galore-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=853","title":{"rendered":"Graphic Novels Galore, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a catchall post of links for this damp, grey Monday, as I catch up on blogging and house cleaning and other small projects (thus successfully procrastinating on real work while also maintaining the illusion of productivity).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, a plethora of <b>graphic novels<\/b> for the comically-minded&#8211;not only did the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybils.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cybils<\/a> release their finalist lists (including GNs for young readers and teens alike), GraphicNovelReporter has released THEIR list of the <a href=\"http:\/\/graphicnovelreporter.com\/content\/best-graphic-novels-2012-feature-stories\" target=\"_blank\">best graphics of 2012<\/a>&#8211;interesting to compare, and not surprisingly, there are a few titles that overlap: Congrats to Raina Telgemeier and Faith Erin Hicks!<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>More lists of <b>Best Books of 2012<\/b> are popping up throughout the kidlitosphere: check them out at <a href=\"http:\/\/slayground.livejournal.com\/728692.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bildungsroman<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/afuse8production\/2013\/01\/01\/100-magnificent-childrens-books-of-2012\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fuse #8<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bookshelvesofdoom.blogs.com\/bookshelves_of_doom\/2012\/12\/my-year-of-reading-2012.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bookshelves of Doom<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chasingray.com\/archives\/2012\/12\/my_year_in_reading_2012.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chasing Ray<\/a>, and a bonus from Leila over at her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/blog\/young-adult\/bookshelves-doom-2012-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kirkus Reviews column<\/a>.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Have you heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/paperbackswap.com\/\">PaperBackSwap.com<\/a>? I hadn&#8217;t, but it&#8217;s a great way to <b>get books to schools<\/b> in need as well as ditch some of those titles taking up space in piles, on your floor, in your office or living room or bedroom&#8230;you know you&#8217;ve got those piles. <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>For other ways to <b>help students in need<\/b>, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adoptaclassroom.org\/classroomdonation\/results_classrooms.aspx?src=donate\" target=\"_blank\">Adopt-A-Classroom<\/a>, which I just read about over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book_news_posts\/88-adopt-a-classroom\" target=\"_blank\">Goodreads<\/a>, or check out ARCs Float On and the other book donation programs on <a href=\"http:\/\/reachareader.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reach a Reader<\/a> (yeah, yeah, I&#8217;m totally biased about that one!).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a catchall post of links for this damp, grey Monday, as I catch up on blogging and house cleaning and other small projects&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,59,8,10,86],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-comix","tag-donation-alert","tag-views","tag-web-wanderings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7397,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/7397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}