Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang
Dragon Hoops was not only a graphic novel, but a graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang. And not just only any old graphic novel by him, but a First Second published one. All the big points were hit. The only thing I was not looking forward to was going to be the basketball aspect. But I figured that since Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu was not really about hockey, that maybe this was not really about basketball. Oh, it is about basketball. But it is […]
Dear Boy by Paris Rosenthal
I do not remember reading mother and daughter Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Paris Rosenthal’s collaboration Dear Girl. But if I had, it obviously did not make much of an impression. Therefore, I was unsure what to exactly expect from daughter and father collaborators, Paris and Jason Rosenthal’s Dear Boy. Though, I had my suspicions. And basically, what came out of my reading of Dear Boy was exactly what I was expecting: a sentimental, modern, touchy-feely and obvious book. It is a “make yourself a kinder, […]
