by Rob Randle | Nov 7, 2024 | Comic Spotlight, Comics Plus, Resources
Yikes! I often lament the difficulty of narrowing down my list of recent additions to Comics Plus to spotlight each month, but this time I really had so many to choose between it was starting to feel more like triage. So, rather than relegating too many fine titles to...
by LibraryPass | Nov 6, 2024 | Comic Spotlight, Comics Plus, Curriculum Alignment, Resources
Fantasy is a popular genre, partly because its fans love to be whisked away to join forces with talking animals, majestic unicorns, and kindly knights. These stories fulfill a desire to be brave and fight dungeon-dwelling monsters, mysterious animatronic pirates, or...
by LibraryPass | Oct 21, 2024 | Comic Spotlight, Resources
This guest post is from Ellie Lathbridge, Marketing Executive with JCS Online Resources, our K12 partner in Europe. Originally posted on LinkedIn, we’re republishing it here with her permission. Be sure to check out her other article on using manga to increase...
by Rob Randle | Oct 7, 2024 | Comic Spotlight, Comics Plus, Resources
It feels like the school year is back in full swing (here in the US), and if there’s a theme to my picks from our most recent additions to Comics Plus, it’s a reminder of sequential art’s uniquely charming ability to engage, educate, and entertain readers — all at the...
by LibraryPass | Oct 3, 2024 | Comic Spotlight, Comics Plus, Curriculum Alignment, Resources
As we head into the holiday season preparing for celebration and joy, moments of reflection, and connecting with family, it’s important to recognize that this might also be a difficult time of year for some students. Families and feelings come in all sizes and...
by Moni Barrette | Oct 2, 2024 | Comic Spotlight, Comics Plus, Resources
Drama in literature can be experienced as an exciting, emotional, or unexpected series of events or set of circumstances. Well-written drama builds tension by creating narrative friction between characters through situations that test them while also driving the plot...