Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl
10 best books like Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl (Daniel Pinkwater): Unterzakhn, Flora's Fury, NonNonBa, Special Exits, Samuel Blink and the Runaway Troll, The Wrong Place, My Dirty Dumb Eyes, The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec 1: Pterror Over Paris/The Eiffel Tower Demon, The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8, Castle Waiting, Vol. 2
| Author | Leela Corman |
| ISBN | 0805242597 |
A mesmerizing, heartbreaking graphic novel of immigrant life on New York’s Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century, as seen through the eyes of twin sisters whose lives take radically and tragically different paths.
For six-year-old Esther and Fanya, the teeming streets of...
Despite her troublesome attraction to magick, Flora Fyrdraaca has — more or less — spent her life doing what's been expected of her. Yet now, at sixteen, she knows that this path has been strewn with secrets. Secrets have kept her from following her passion of becoming a ranger, of perfecting her...
| Author | Shigeru Mizuki |
| ISBN | 1770460721 |
The first English translation of Mizuki's best-loved work
NonNonBa is the definitive work by acclaimed Gekiga-ka Shigeru Mizuki, a poetic memoir detailing his interest in yokai (spirit monsters). Mizuki's childhood experiences with yokai influenced the course of his life and oeuvre;...
Joyce Farmer's memoir chronicles the decline of the author's parents' health, their relationship with one another and with their daughter, and how they cope with the day-to-day emotional fragility of the most taxing time of their lives.
Elderly parents Lars and Rachel, who have enjoyed...
| Author | Matt Haig |
| ISBN | 0399247408 |
When Troll-Son runs away from home, he decides to leave the Shadow Forest behind and move in with his idol, Samuel Blink. Samuel isn't thrilled with the idea of hiding a runaway troll, especially one who copies everything he does, even (ugh!) using his toothbrush. But should Samuel return Troll-Son...
| Author | Brecht Evens |
| ISBN | 1770460012 |
Wanton youth seen through lush, dreamy, and sweeping watercolors.
Rendered in vividwatercolorwhere parquet floors and patterned dresses morph together, The Wrong Place revolves around the often absent Robbie, a charismatic lothario of mysterious celebrity who has the run of a city that...
| Author | Lisa Hanawalt |
| ISBN | 1770461167 |
My Dirty Dumb Eyes introduces Lisa Hanawalt as a first-rank cartoonist/humorist/stalker for an audience that likes its humor idiosyncratic, at times anthropomorphic or scatological, often uncomfortable, and always sharp witted. Her world vision is intricately rendered in a full spectrum of...
| Author | Jacques Tardi |
| ISBN | 1606993828 |
Both a rip-roaring adventure series set in pre-World War I Paris and a parody of the same, Adele has been enchanting, thrilling, and puzzling readers worldwide through four decades. With various American attempts to publish Adele having dribbled into nothing decades ago, Fantagraphics Books, fresh...
| Author | Thomas Ott |
| ISBN | 1560978759 |
Swiss horror master Thomas Ott returns with the first full-length, wordless graphic novel of his career. When clearing up the cell of a prisoner who has been sentenced to death and subsequently executed, a prison guard finds a small piece of paper with a combination of numbers on it. On the spur of the...
| Author | Linda Medley |
| ISBN | 1606994050 |
Ohhhh these graphic novels are like cookies. Book cookies. Nom nom nom nom. The kind of book cookie you don't know you're craving until you see it on the shelf. I guess they're like cookies that someone else is making and you don't realize until you smell them baaaaaaaking and all of a sudden you NEED one....
Lillian Kindred spends her days exploring the Tanglewood Forest, a magical rolling wilderness, that she imagines to be full of fairies. The trouble is, Lillian has never seen a wisp of magic in her hills-until the day the cats of the forest save her life by transforming her into a kitten. Now Lillian must...
| Author | Bryan Talbot |
| ISBN | 1595828907 |
The baffling murder of a famed Parisian artist in his locked and guarded studio takes the tenacious Detective Inspector LeBrock of Scotland Yard and his faithful adjunct, Detective Sargent Ratzi, into the cut-throat Grandville art scene to track the mysterious assassin. As the body count mounts...
| Author | Ted Naifeh |
| ISBN | 1561633860 |
The new series by the artist of Gloom Cookie and Courtney Crumrin! Do the town with gender outlaw Catherine Gore and her disreputable friends. It's Friday night and Catherine is dragged to an S&M play party to see what passes for sex these days. There, the beautiful, enigmatic fem fatale Chloe takes...
| Author | E.E. Cummings |
| ISBN | 0871406586 |
The four tales in this enchanting, newly illustrated volume, tell of lonely and extraordinary characters finding friendship in unlikely companions. In "The Old Man Who Said Why" a wise fairy's kind nature is taxed when one old man's questions throw the entire heavens into madness. In "The Elephant...
| Author | Aaron Alexovich |
| ISBN | 1401203736 |
Written and illustrated by Aaron Alexovich Navigate the neon-lit corridors of an online VR lair in this high-velocity, dangerous quest to locate the world's first digital girl, written and illustrated by Aaron Alexovich (Serenity Rose, TV's Invader Zim and Avatar: The Last Airbender)! Telly Kade...
| Author | Hannah Berry |
| ISBN | 0224077902 |
'Nowadays I don't get out of bed for less than a murder. I don't get out of bed much...Until today.'
'Private Researcher' Fernández Britten is the messenger who would view being shot as a blessing. The years spent uncovering people's secret dramas and helping to confirm their darkest suspicions...
| Author | Cuthbert Soup |
| ISBN | 1599908247 |
The Cheeseman family is back from back-in-time. Or at least, they're in the LVR (their super-secret time machine) and on their way to save the life of their beloved mother, Olivia. But then the LVR gets kicked off the Time Arc into a place called Sometimes. And unlike olden times or present times, Sometimes...
| Author | J. Torres |
| ISBN | 1934964336 |
Jesse sees dead people, monsters, demons, and lots of other things that go bump in the night that no one else can see. No one except his ailing grandmother—a woman who used her visions to help those living in her small town... the same rural community in all the scary stories Jesse's heard as a child. Man-eating...
| Author | Simon Tofield |
| ISBN | 0857862774 |
Cats are obsessed with food -- eating food, catching food, playing with food, stealing food, even napping on top of food. This collection of Simon's Cat cartoons deal with that food obsession.
I smiled the whole time I was reading this cartoon collection. I have four cats (all rescues) and have...
| Author | The New Yorker |
| ISBN | 0394587952 |
Although I love cats and their crazy quirks some of these comics made me wonder are these really cat people who drew these comics or are they really dog people who just don't understand the fuzzy minds of our cattish friends? There were a few spots where the comics hit the nail on the head but more or less I...
| Author | Maurice Sendak |
| ISBN | 0062234897 |
Fifty years after Where the Wild Things Are was published comes the last book Maurice Sendak completed before his death in May 2012, My Brother's Book. With influences from Shakespeare and William Blake, Sendak pays homage to his late brother, Jack, whom he credited for his passion for writing and drawing....
| Author | Tom Gauld |
| ISBN | 1770461043 |
“Precise and wryly hilarious...Gauld's both a literature nerd and a science-fiction nerd whose deadpan mashups belong on the same shelf as R. Sikoryak, Michael Kupperman, and Kate Beaton.”—NPR, Best Books of 2013
A new collection from the Guardian and New York Times Magazine cartoonist
The...
Olivia Kidney and the Secret Beneath the City
| Author | Ellen Potter |
| ISBN | 0399247017 |
Olivia Kidney has been through a lot. Being able to communicate with ghosts means never a dull moment—or a normal life. But just when things have calmed down, Olivia’s father insists she enroll at one of the most prestigious arts schools in Manhattan! Yet her school problems take a backseat when...
