Ah-Ha to Zig-Zag: 31 Objects from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
8 best books like Ah-Ha to Zig-Zag: 31 Objects from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (Maira Kalman): The White Card: A Play, Little Fox in the Forest, Sanity & Tallulah, Your Art Will Save Your Life, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 2, Operatic, The Lie And How We Told It, サトコとナダ 2 [Satoko to Nada 2]
Author | Claudia Rankine |
ISBN | 1555978398 |
A play about the imagined fault line between black and white lives by Claudia Rankine, the author of
Citizen
The White Card stages a conversation that is both informed and derailed by the black/white American drama. The scenes in this one-act play, for all the characters' disagreements,...
A wordless picture book in which two friends follow a young fox deep into the woods and discover a wondrous and magical world.
When a young girl brings her beloved stuffed fox to the playground, much to her astonishment, a real fox takes off with it! The girl chases the fox into the woods with her...
Author | Molly Brooks |
ISBN | 1368008445 |
Sanity Jones and Tallulah Vega are best friends on Wilnick, the dilapidated space station they call home at the end of the galaxy. So naturally, when gifted scientist Sanity uses her lab skills and energy allowance to create a definitely-illegal-but-impossibly-cute three-headed kitten, she has...
Your Art Will Save Your Life
Author | Beth Pickens |
ISBN | 1936932296 |
Writing in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, Beth Pickens reminds burgeoning artists that their work is more important now than ever, and advises on fostering creativity, sustaining an innovative practice, and navigating institutional funding as an individual. Partially a self-help...
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 2
Author | Hayao Miyazaki |
ISBN | 1591163501 |
It's almost impossible for a two part work to be so magnificent, and yet Nausicaa manages to be just that.
I usually just, to quote a friend, ingest graphic novels, and the reason I was able to finish my 2017 reading goal so quickly was largely because of them. Nausicaa has been a challenge because...
Author | Kyo Maclear |
ISBN | 1554989728 |
Somewhere in the universe, there is the perfect tune for you.
It’s almost the end of middle school, and Charlie has to find her perfect song for a music class assignment. The class learns about a different style of music each day, from hip-hop to metal to disco, but it’s hard for Charlie to...
The Lie And How We Told It
Parrish’s emotionally loaded, painted graphic novel is is a visual tour de force, always in the service of the author’s themes: navigating queer desire, masculinity, fear, and the ever-in-flux state of friendships. .
サトコとナダ 2 [Satoko to Nada 2]
Author | Yupechika |
ISBN | 4065107709 |
I pre-ordered this and started reading it as soon as it came in the mail, and it was so cute and fun! I still love the girls' personalities and how this both reads as humor but also informative in discussing the way Arab women's lives differ from Japanese women's, and then how those both differ from American...