They really need to do their math there, but I don’t want to interrupt the nearly half hour stretch of quiet they’ve had together!
We were inundated by graphic novels for Christmas gifts and the boys have been making their way through them, along with the other books they got.
Both the boys quickly read Squish: Brave New Pond by Jennifer Holm, which they enjoyed. I don’t quite “get” these books, but the boys find the story of Squish, a small amoeba, and his school friends, to be funny. They’re a little bit on the gross out side of humor, so just a parental warning for you there.
I got Mushroom the very easy to read book The Flying Beaver Brothers and the Evil Penguin Plan by Maxwell Eaton. There’s a sequel as well. It was really funny, with a lot of what passes as dry humor for the elementary school set, which is exactly Mushroom’s kind of jokes.
BalletBoy got the next entries in the Salt Water Taffy series by Matthew Loux, Caldera’s Revenge. This is a set of graphic novels about two boys on summer vacation in Maine. I admit that I didn’t like these much at first, but I guess there’s something funny about grizzled old seamen? The dialogue is a bit amusing, I suppose.
Finally, both Mushroom and BalletBoy have embarked on reading the great graphic novel series Bone by Jeff Smith and have already gone through the first two volumes and are asking for the third. This series is silly at times, with slapsticky gags and jokey dialogue. It follows some bones who leave their home for the wide world. The rest of the characters are human. However, it also quickly begins to tell an epic tale full of dragons and quests. This is an older series (I read the first bit of it years before I had kids) but Scholastic got hold of it several years ago making it clearly a series for children. It is, by far, the title on this list that I recommend the highest. The rest are just for fun, but this one is graphic novel art.
I Capture the Rowhouse 