*yes, I know graphic novels are not actually a genre, but that’s what the assignment was called
Hello readers! I know it’s been a really, really (insert 2 pages of “really”s, Lemony Snicket-style) long time since my last post (224 days, but who’s counting?), but in my defense I also didn’t have any assignments that I thought people would be particularly interested in reading about during that time. Lots of learning went on, there just wasn’t anything that screamed (figuratively) BLOG ABOUT ME! Until now. This summer I’m taking a class on Youth Services in Libraries and Information Centers, and for our first assignment we had to choose a genre of books to study in-depth and present to our classmates. Comic book nerd that I am, I of course chose to write about graphic novels! As part of the assignment we also had to brainstorm library activities involving our chosen genre for a particular age range (in my case, high schoolers) and present an annotated bibliography of 12 selected titles (which were really hard to choose!). So if you want to read me being very serious about comic books and graphic novels, here goes…
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