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Adventures in cartooning by James Sturm, Andrew Arnold and Alexis Fredrick. New York: FirstSecond, 2009.

Age of Bronze: a thousand ships by Eric Shanower. Orange, CA: Image, 2001.

Ain't Nothing But a Man:  My Quest to Find the Real John Henry by Scott Reynolds Nelson and Marc Aronson.  Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2008.

All the Worlds a Stage by Rebecca Piatt Davidson and Anita Lobel, ill. New York: Greenwillow, 2003.

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang. New York: First Second: 2006.

Amiri and Odette: a love story by Walter Dean Myers and Javaka Steptoe, ill. New York: Scholastic Press, 2009. 

Animal Poems by Valerie Worth and Steve Jenkins, ill. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2007.

Anne Frank by Josephine Poole and Angela Barrett, ill.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

Bard of Avon, the story of William Shakespeare, The by Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema, ill. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.

Beats, The: a graphic history by Harvey Pekar, Ed Piskor, Paul Buhle, et al, ill. New York: Hill and Wang, 2009.

Bird by Zetta Elliott and Shadra Strickland, ill. NY: Lee & Low Books, 2008.

Blabber Report, The by True Kelley. New York: Dutton, 2007.

Blackbeard, the pirate king: several yarns detailing the legends, myths, and real-life adventures of history's most notorious seaman: told in verse by J. Patrick Lewis. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2006.

Blankets: an illustrated novel by Craig Thompson. Marietta, GA: Top Shelf, 2003.

Blue Lipstick: concrete poems by John Grandits. New York: Clarion, 2007.

Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story by Frederik Peeters. New York, Houghton Mifflin, 2008.

Bone volume 1, Out from Boneville  by Jeff Smith, color by Steve Hamaker. Graphix, New York, 2005.

Boy who Loved Words, The by Roni Schotter and Giselle Potter, ill. New York: Schwartz and Wade, 2006.

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain

by Verna Aardema and Beatriz Vidal, ill. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1981.

Casey at the Bat by Ernest Thayer and Joe Morse, ill. Tonawanda, NY: Kids Can Press, 2006.

Cuckoo's Haiku, The: and Other Birding Poems by Michael J. Rosen and Stan Fellows, ill. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2009.

The Day the Stones Walked by T.A. Barron & William Low, ill. New York: Philomel Books, 2007.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

adapted from the work of Robert Louis Stevenson, by Lorenzo Mattotti & Jerry Kramsky.  New York:  NBM, 2002.

Dream   by Susan Bosak and 15 internationally acclaimed artists. Canada: TCP Press, 2004.

 

Eats, shoots and leaves: why, commas really do make a difference! by Lynne Truss and Lynne Timmons, ill. New York: Putnam, 2006.

Eleventh Hour, The: a curious mystery by Graeme Base. New York: Abrams, 1989. 

Erika-San by Allen Say. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2009.

Extra innings: baseball poems by Lee Bennett Hopkins, ed. and Scott Medlock, ill. San Diego: Harcourt, 1993. 

Finder: Talisman  by Carla Speed McNeil. Lightspeed Press, Annapolis Junction, MD, 2002. 0-9673691-3-4.

Finding a friend in the forest: a true story by Dean Bennett. Camden, MN: Down East Books, 2005.

Food Hates You Too: and other poems by Robert Weinstock. New York: Hyperion, 2009.

Four Immigrants Manga, The: a Japanese experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924 by Henry (Yoshitaka) Kiyama. Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge, 1999.

Frankenstein: The graphic novel

by Mary Shelley, Jason Cobley, adpt., and Declan Shalvey, Jon Haward, Jason Cardy, Kat Nicholson, and Terry Wiley, ill. Litchborough, UK: Classical Comics, 2009.

French Milk by Lucy Knisley. New York: Touchstone, 2007.Frida: Long Live Life! by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand.New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2007.

Girls like spaghetti, The: why, you can't manage without apostrophes! by Lynne Truss and Bonnie Timmons, ill. New York: Putnam, 2007.

Gone Wild: an Endangered Animal Alphabet by David McLimans. New York: Walker, 2006.

Grandfather's journey by Allen Say. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993.

Henrys Night by D.B. Johnson and Linda Michelin, ill. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.

Highwayman, The by Alfred Noyes and Murray Kimber, ill. New York: Kids Can Press, 2005.

How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

I Still Hate to Read by Rita Marshall and Etienne Delessert, ill. Chanhassen, MN: Creative Editions, 2007.

In the Shadow of Edgar Allen Poe by Jonathan Scott Fugua and Steven Parke, ill. New York: DC Comics, 2002.

Inside Out, Portrait of an Eating Disorder by Nadia Shivack. New York: Atheneum, 2007.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and John M. B., ill. Litchborough, UK: Classic Comics, Ltd., 2008.

Kami and the Yaks by Andrea Stenn Stryer and Bert Dodson, ill. Palo Alto, CA:  Bay Otter Press, 2007.

Lost Warrior, The by Erin Hunter, Dan Jolley and James L. Barry, ill. Los Angeles: Tokyopop, 2007.

Last Knight, an introduction to Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, The by Michael Eisner. New York: Nantier, Beall, Minoustchine, 2000.

Lewis Carroll: poetry for young people by Edward Mendelson, ed. and Eric Copeland, ill. New York: Sterling, 2000.

Library for Juana, A: the world of Sor Juana Ines by Pat Mora and Beatriz Vidal, ill. New York: Knopf, 2002.

Little Yellow Leaf, Theby Carin Berger. New York: Harper Collins, 2008.

Lon Po Po: a red-riding hood story from China by Ed Young. New York: Philomel, 1989.

Man Who Walked Between the Towers, The by Mordecai Gerstein. Brookfield, CT: Roaring Brook Press, 2003.

McElderry book of Greek myths retold, The by Eric Kimmel and Pep Montserrat, ill. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008.

Metamorphosis, The by Franz Kafka and Peter Kuper, ill. New York: Crown, 2003.

Monarch and Milkweed by Helen Frost and Leonid Gore, ill. New York: Atheneum, 2008.

Muhammad by Demi. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.

My name is Gabito: the life of Gabriel García Márquez by Monica Brown and Raul Colon, ill. Flagstaff, AZ: Luna Rising, 2007.

Mysteries of Harris Burdick, The by Chris Van Allsburg. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. 

 

Negro Speaks of Rivers, The by Langston Hughes and E. B. Lewis, ill.  NY:  Disney-Jump at the Sun Books, 2009

Once Upon a Tomb: gravely humorous verses by J. Patrick Lewis, ill. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2006.

One special summer by Jacqueline and Lee Bouvier.  New York:  Rizzoli International Publications, 2006.

Persepolis The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi.  New York:  Pantheon Books, 2003.   

Pete and Pickles by Berkeley Breathed. New  York:  Philomel, 2008.  

 

Philliss Big Test by Catherine Clinton and Sean Qualls, ill. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.                        

Picture This: how pictures work by Molly Bang. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2000.

Popcorn Poems by James Stevenson.  New York:  Greenwillow Books, 1998.

Precious and the Boo Hag by Patricia C. McKissack and Onawumi Jean Moss, ill. by Kyrsten Brooker. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2005.

Randolph Caldecotts picture books by Randolph Caldecott.  San Marino, CA:  Huntington Library, 2008.

Red sings from treetops: a year in colorsby Joyce Sidman and Pamela Zagarenski, ill. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2009.

Redwall: The Graphic Novel by Brian Jaques and Bret Blevins, ill. New York, Philomel Books, 2007.

River of Words, A by Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet, ill.  Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2008.

Science Verse by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith, ill. New York: Viking, 2004.

Silent Music, a story of Baghdad by James Rumford. New York: Roaring Brook, 2008.

Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki, ill. Toronto, ON: Groundwood, 2008.

Sky Tree

 :  Seeing Science Through Art by Thomas Locker with Candace Christiansen.  New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1995.

Sloth by Gilbert Hernandez. New York: Vertigo, 2006.

Smoky Night by Eve Bunting and David Diaz, ill. San Diego, CA: Harcourt, 1994.

So Said Ben by Michael McCurdy. Mankato, MN: Creative Editions, 2007.

Sound of Colors: A Journey of the Imagination, The by Jimmy Liao English text adapted by Sarah L. Thomson. New York, Little Brown and Company, 2006.

Sundiata: Lion King of Mali by David Wisniewski. New York: Clarion, 1992.

Swamps of Sleethe, The by Jack Prelutsky and Jimmy Pickering, ill. New York: Alfred A. Kopf, 2009.

Syncopated: an anthology of nonfiction picto-essays by Brendan Burford, ed. New York: Villard, 2009. 

Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan. Arthur A Levine Books, 2009.

 

There's a Frog in my Throat: 440 Animal Sayings a Little Bird Told Me by Loreen Leedy, Pat Street, and Loreen Leedy, ill. NY: Holiday House, 2003.

This is just to say: poems of apology and forgiveness by Joyce Sidman and Pamela Zagarenski, ill.Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007.

Thoreau at Walden by John Porcellino. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2008.

To Go Singing Through the World by Deborah Kogan Ray.  New York:  Frances Foster Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.

Train to Somewhere by Eve Bunting and Ronal Himler, ill. New York:  Clarion Books, 1996. 

Traveling Man

:  The Journey of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354 by James Rumford.  New York:  Houghton Mifflin, 2001.

True Story of the Three Little Pigs, The by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith, ill. New York: Viking, 1989.

Twenty-odd ducks: why every punctuation mark counts by Lynn Truss and Bonnie Timmons, ill. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2008. 

Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa by Don Brown.  New York:  Houghton Mifflin, 2000. 

 

Uncle Peters Amazing Chinese Wedding by Lenore Look and Yumi Heo, ill. New York: Atheneum, 2006.

Voegelein  by Jane Irwin and Jeff Berndt, ill. Fiery Studios, 2003. 978-0974311005

Wabi sabi by Mark Reibstein and Ed Young, ill. New York: Little Brown, 2008.

The Wall :Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis. New York:  Frances Foster Books, 2007.

Water Music: poems for children by Jane Yolen and Jason Stemple, ill. Homesdale, PA: Wordsong, 2004.

We by Alice Schertle and Kenneth Addison, ill. New York: Lee and Low, 2007.

Wednesday Surprise, The by Eve Bunting, ill. by Donald Carrick. New York: Clarion Books, 1989.

West is Calling, The: imagining British Columbia by Sarah N. Harvey, Leslie Buffam, and Dianna Bonder, ill. Victoria, BC: Orca Book Publishers, 2008.

Wild boy, The by Mordecai Gerstein. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.

William Shakespeares Macbeth by Bruce Coville and Gary Kelley, ill. New York: Dial Books, 1997.

William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet by Barbara Kindermann and Christa Unzner ill., trans. by J. Alison James. New York: NorthSouth Books, 2003.

Wonderland by Tommy Kovac and Sonny Liew, ill. New York: Disney Press, 2009.

Woolvs in the Sitee by Margaret Wild and Anne Spudvilas, ill. Asheville, NC: Front Street, 2007.

Wreath for Emmett Till, A by Marilyn Nelson and Philippe Lardy, ill. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 2005.

The Wreck of the Zephyr by Chris Van Allsburg.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, 1983.

 

 

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