Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas
10 best books like Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas (Jim Ottaviani): Fairy Tale Comics: Classic Tales Told by Extraordinary Cartoonists, The Adventures of Superhero Girl, Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong, Cardboard, Saints, Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb, Prison Island: A Graphic Memoir, The Silence of Our Friends, Around the World, Odd Duck
Fairy Tale Comics: Classic Tales Told by Extraordinary Cartoonists
| Author | Chris Duffy |
| ISBN | 1596438231 |
From favorites like "Puss in Boots" and "Goldilocks" to obscure gems like "The Boy Who Drew Cats," Fairy Tale Comics has something to offer every reader. Seventeen fairy tales are wonderfully adapted and illustrated in comics format by seventeen different cartoonists, including Raina Telgemeier,...
| Author | Faith Erin Hicks |
| ISBN | 1616550848 |
What if you can leap tall buildings and defeat alien monsters with your bare hands, but you buy your capes at secondhand stores, and have a weakness for kittens, and a snarky comment from Skeptical Guy can ruin a whole afternoon? Cartoonist Faith Erin Hicks brings her skills in character design and sharp,...
Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong
Charlie is the laid-back captain of the basketball team. Nate is the neurotic, scheming president of the robotics club. Their unlikely friendship nearly bites the dust when Nate declares war on the cheerleaders and the cheerleaders retaliate by making Charlie their figurehead in the ugliest class...
| Author | Doug TenNapel |
| ISBN | 0545418739 |
Every page in Doug TenNapel’s Cardboard pops to life with color, action, imagination, and heart!
Cam and his Dad are going through a rough time. Both trying to find a way to live without Cam’s mother. Loneliness, grief, and fear show up throughout the story in heartbreaking quiet ways...
| Author | Gene Luen Yang |
| ISBN | 1596436891 |
China, 1898. An unwanted and unwelcome fourth daughter, Four-Girl isn't even given a proper name by her family when she's born. She finds friendship--and a name, Vibiana--in the most unlikely of places: Christianity.
But China is a dangerous place for Christians. The Boxer Rebellion is...
| Author | Jonathan Fetter-Vorm |
| ISBN | 0809094681 |
Trinity, the debut graphic book by the gifted illustrator Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, depicts in vivid detail the dramatic history of the race to build and the decision to drop the first atomic bomb. This sweeping historical narrative traces the spark of invention from the laboratories of nineteenth-century...
Prison Island: A Graphic Memoir
| Author | Colleen Frakes |
| ISBN | 1942186029 |
McNeil Island in Washington state was the home of the last prison island in the United States, accessible only by air or sea. It was also home to about fifty families, including Colleen Frakes's. Her parents—like nearly everyone else on the island—both worked in the prison, where her father was...
| Author | Mark Long |
| ISBN | 1596436182 |
In 1960s Texas, a white family from a notoriously racist neighborhood and a black family from its poorest ward cross Houston's color line, overcoming humiliation, degradation, and violence to win the freedom of five black college students unjustly charged with the murder of a policeman.
The...
| Author | Matt Phelan |
| ISBN | 0763636193 |
A Scott O'Dell Award-winning graphic novelist follows three dauntless adventurers on a Jules Verne-inspired challenge: circling the world, solo!
As the nineteenth century wound down, a public inspired by the novel Around the World in Eighty Days clamored for intrepid adventure. The challenge...
| Author | Cecil Castellucci |
| ISBN | 1596435577 |
Theodora is a perfectly normal duck. She may swim with a teacup balanced on her head and stay north when the rest of the ducks fly south for the winter, but there's nothing so odd about that. Chad, on the other hand, is one strange bird. Theodora quite likes him, but she can't overlook his odd habits. It's...
| Author | Jarrett J. Krosoczka |
Hey, Kiddo is the graphic memoir of author-illustrator Jarrett J. Krosoczka. Raised by his colorful grandparents, who adopted him because his mother was an incarcerated heroin addict, Krosoczka didn't know his father's name until he saw his birth certificate when registering for a school ski trip....
| Author | Joseph Lambert |
| ISBN | 1423113365 |
«My heart is singing for joy this morning! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!»Helen Keller lost her ability to see and hear before she turned two years old.
But in her lifetime, she learned to ride horseback and dance the foxtrot....
"A smart, affecting graphic young adult novel," declares the New York Times.
Before you write me off as a delusional psycho, think about what it's like to be thrown into a situation where everyone knows everyone... and no one knows you. Sadie has the perfect plan to snag some friends when she...
| Author | Laura Lee Gulledge |
| ISBN | 1419705466 |
Wilhelmina “Will” Huckstep is a creative soul struggling to come to terms with a family tragedy. She crafts whimsical lamps, in part to deal with her fear of the dark. As she wraps up another summer in her mountain town, she longs for unplugged adventures with her fellow creative friends, Autumn,...
