Integrating step-by-step how-to-draw instructions with an original manga comic narrative, this innovative handbook covers the basics of creating a manga comic, explaining how to bring the characters, the story, and the entire manga world to life. Original.

Mangaquest: Join the Adventure and Learn How to Drawn It

Gibson, Ben

Marcos, Serge

Arts & Photography

Perigee Trade

Uma Wimple Charts Her House

Hip, funny, unique--and a perfect curriculum tie-in--here's a picture book with mega kid-appeal about the challenges a student faces when she is given an assignment to make a chart of her own home!\nUma's been making charts since she was a little kid. But when her teacher gives the class Uma's dream assignment--to make a chart of their own homes--she is thrown for a loop. Oh, the possibilities! Oh, the pressure! What makes a house housey? she wonders. In order to figure it out, she asks each member of her family--Mom, Dad, and brothers Rex, Bram, and Lukey. But it's not until she has a meltdown and Lukey comforts her that Uma figures out the secret to her chart--and her family. It's the love that is shared inside a house's walls.\nTold in first-person and featuring engaging graphic artwork, this fun and lively picture book--perfect for classroom use--is a reminder that someone's true home is not a place, but rather the people with whom you surround yourself.\nFrom School Library Journal\nGr 1–3—Third grader Uma's charting habits cover the length of her father's fingers, her height, the number of freckles on her cheeks, the chronicling of her shin scrapes. She loves to make charts, even a chart of her gear for making them: pie charts, bar charts, Venn diagrams, pyramid charts, map charts, or tree charts. Examples of her personal charts include the moon phases and possibilities of werewolves, her personal food pyramid, or a record of the Wimple family's daily screen time. Above all, they are NOT simple doodles, but based upon data. Mixed media art in a subdued palette creates folk-inspired trees in a neighborhood of unique houses and highlights the detail of hand-drawn illustrations with a comic flair. When a class assignment is given to "draw a chart of your home," Uma is overwhelmed with the possibilities and ways to describe it. A variety of fonts emphasizes her scattered thoughts: should she chart brick patterns, or windows, maybe roof angles? She even charts the levels of love in her household and those who make it special. VERDICT What a tumble into a young girl's brain and heart, all calculations and systems. A suggested first purchase for libraries, this title brings creativity—and a bit of math—to an understanding of all of life.—Mary Elam, Learning Media Services, Plano I.S.D., TX

Children's Books

Larsen, Reif

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Anne Schwartz Books

Hip, funny, unique--and a perfect curriculum tie-in--here's a picture book with mega kid-appeal about the challenges a student faces when she is given an assignment to make a chart of her own home! Uma's been making charts since she was a little kid. But when her teacher gives the class Uma's dream assignment--to make a chart of their own homes--she is thrown for a loop. Oh, the possibilities! Oh, the pressure! What makes a house housey? she wonders. In order to figure it out, she asks each member of her family--Mom, Dad, and brothers Rex, Bram, and Lukey. But it's not until she has a meltdown and Lukey comforts her that Uma figures out the secret to her chart--and her family. It's the love that is shared inside a house's walls. Told in first-person and featuring engaging graphic artwork, this fun and lively picture book--perfect for classroom use--is a reminder that someone's true home is not a place, but rather the people with whom you surround yourself. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

From the meticulous minds at Pop Chart Lab comes an imbiber’s delight: a comprehensive infographic investigation into the world of beer, wine, and spirits. Containing everything from the many varieties of beer and the vessels from which to drink them, to cocktails of choice in film and literature, A Visual Guide to Drink maps, graphs, and charts the history, geography, and culture of the world’s very favorite pastime. The domestic beer-drinking novice and whisk(e)y aficionado alike will relish this perfectly practical primer awash in essentials like charted cocktail recipes, a breakdown of brewing processes, and extensive maps of the world’s wine region in Pop Chart Lab’s trademark clean and elegant design. The definitive guide to informative imbibing, A Visual Guide to Drink is a fun, functional, and beautiful concoction of data and design that is sure to inspire delight in readers (and drinkers) everywhere.

A Visual Guide to Drink

Mulligan, Patrick

Avery

They're dapper. They're monstrous. They're erudite. They're the Ghastly Dandies, a breed of beast that happen to be as well-versed in classics as they are well-dressed in knickers and neckties! These ghastlies are guaranteed to delight readers of all ages with their clever renditions of Moby Dick, Hamlet, The Odyssey, Pride and Prejudice, Sherlock Holmes, and more. These classic, illustrated tales told by monsters are sure to make your own little "ghastly" giggle. It's the kind of book you'll want to read to your kids, read again with your friends, and show off on your coffee table when you're done. Don't miss the first compendium of adult classics ever to be told by monsters!

The Ghastly Dandies Do the Classics

Animals

Razorbill

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Books by Gibson, Ben

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Mangaquest: Join the Adventure and Learn How to Drawn It

Uma Wimple Charts Her House

Uma Wimple Charts Her House

A Visual Guide to Drink

The Ghastly Dandies Do the Classics