Workshop Handouts

Beyond Batman:

Graphic Novels as Serious Texts

Quinn Rollins

Granite School District qrollins@graniteschools.org www.quinnrollins.com

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Elementary Graphic Novel Recommendations

Title	Author / Artist	Curriculum
Owly	Andy Runton	ESL/ELL
Cardboard	Doug TenNapel*	ELA
Rapunzel’s Revenge/Calamity Jack	Shannon Hale, Nathan Hale	ELA
Bone (series)	Jeff Smith	ELA
Wonderful Wizard of Oz (series)	Baum / Shanower / Young	ELA
Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales (series)	Nathan Hale	History
Nursery Rhyme/Fairy Tale/Fable Comics	Chris Duffy	ELA
The Arrival	Shaun Tan*	History
El Deafo	CeCe Bell	ELA
The Olympians (series)	George O’Connor	ELA
Amulet (series)	Kazu Kibiushi	ELA
How Mirka Got Her Sword (series)	Barry Deutsch	Social Studies
The Great American Dust Bowl	Don Brown	History
Trickster: Native American Graphic Tales	Matt Dembicki	History
Hidden: A Child’s Story of the Holocaust	Loic Dauvillier	History
The Storm in the Barn	Matt Phelan*	History
Science Comics (various)	(various)	Science
Laika	Nick Abadzis	History/Science
Breath of Bones: A Tale of the Golem	Steve Niles	History
Little White Duck: A Childhood in China	Na Liu	History
Primates	Jim Ottaviani*	Science
Ghosts	Raina Telgemeier	ELA
Gaijin: American Prisoner of War	Matt Faulkner	History

Secondary Graphic Novel Recommendations

Title	Author / Artist	Curriculum
Maus	Art Spiegelman	History
Persepolis	Marjane Satrapi	History
American Born Chinese	Gene Luen Yang*	ELA, Social Studies
Charles Darwin’s on the Origin of Species	Michael Keller, Nicolle Fuller	Science
Graphic Science: Seven Journeys of Discovery	Darryl Cunningham	Science
Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb	Jonathan Fetter-Vorm	Science, History
Nat Turner ***	Kyle Baker	History
The Gettysburg Address: A Graphic Adaptation	Hennessey, McConnell	History
March (Books 1, 2, 3)	Lewis, Aydin, Powell	History
The Warren Commission Report	Dan Mishkin	History
Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls are Used in War	Jessica Dee Humphreys	History
Psychiatric Tales***	Darryl Cunningham	Psychology
Action Philosophers	Van Lente, Dunlavey	Philosophy
Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized	Jacobson, Colon*	History
Anya’s Ghost	Vera Brosgol	ELA
Blankets ***	Craig Thompson	ELA
Lewis and Clark	Nick Bertozzi	History
Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir	Liz Prince	ELA
500 Years of Resistance	Gord Hill	History
Art Masters: Gaugin (Van Gogh, others)	Various	Art
The Sculptor ***	Scott McCloud	ELA
T-Minus: The Race to the Moon	Ottaviani*	History, Science
Trump / Snowden / Bernie	Ted Rall	Current Events
Harlem Hellfighters	Max Brooks	History
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea	Guy DeLisle*	History
How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less	Sarah Glidden	Current Events
Filmish: A Graphic Journey Through Film	Edward Ross	History, Film
Secret Path	Gord Downie, Jeff Lemire	History
Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir	Maggie Thrash	LGBT
Rebels: A Well-Regulated Militia	Brian Wood	History
The Great War	Joe Sacco	History
Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie	Lauren Redniss	Science, History
…and the Pursuit of Happiness	Maria Kalman	History

*= all books by this author

*** = mature content