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Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned

10 best books like Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned (Judd Winick): Clan Apis, Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing, The Tale of One Bad Rat, Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary, To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel, Houdini: The Handcuff King, Awkward and Definition: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag, Vietnamerica: A Family's Journey, Mom's Cancer, Cancer Vixen

Clan Apis
AuthorJay Hosler
Clan Apis is one of the funniest and most moving educational books I've ever read. Jay Hosler's writing is clear and inventive; you don't even notice you're learning a lot while you're reading this. Very much in the vein of what Richard Adams does for rabbits in Watership Down, Hosler does a fantastic...
Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing
AuthorJames Rumford
ISBN0618369473
The story of Sequoyah is the tale of an ordinary man with an extraordinary idea—to create a writing system for the Cherokee Indians and turn his people into a nation of readers and writers. The task he set for himself was daunting. Sequoyah knew no English and had no idea how to capture speech on paper....
The Tale of One Bad Rat
AuthorBryan Talbot
ISBN1569710775
Helen Potter lived a happy life until she got lost in a nightmare of sexual abuse. Now she's on a journey that takes her through urban and rural England along the same path that another Potter, Beatrix Potter, once took. Across the decades, two lives touch, and Helen discovers that the strength of two is...
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary
AuthorElizabeth Partridge
ISBN0670011894
An inspiring look at the fight for the vote, by an award-winning author Only 44 years ago in the U.S., Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was leading a fight to win blacks the right to vote. Ground zero for the movement became Selma, Alabama.

Award-winning author Elizabeth Partridge leads you straight...
To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel
AuthorSiena Cherson Siegel
ISBN0689867476
The Sibert Honor–winning graphic memoir about the dreams and realities of becoming a ballerina.

Ballerinas are young when they first dream of dance. Siena was six—and her dreams kept skipping and leaping, circling and spinning, from airy runs along a beach near her home in Puerto Rico,...
Houdini: The Handcuff King
AuthorJason Lutes
ISBN0786839023

Harry Houdini mesmerized a generation of Americans when he was alive, and continues to do so 80 years after his death. This is a snapshot of Houdini's life, centering on one of his most famous jumps. As Houdini prepares for a death-defying leap into the icy Charles River in Boston, biographer Jason...
Awkward and Definition: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag
AuthorAriel Schrag
ISBN1416552316
Ariel Schrag captures the American high school experience in all its awkward, questioning glory in Awkward and Definition, the first of three amazingly honest autobiographical graphic novels about her teenage years.

During the summer following each year at Berkeley High School in California,...
Vietnamerica: A Family's Journey
AuthorG.B. Tran
ISBN0345508726
A superb new graphic memoir in which an inspired artist/storyteller reveals the road that brought his family to where they are today: Vietnamerica
 
GB Tran is a young Vietnamese American artist who grew up distant from (and largely indifferent to) his family’s history. Born and raised...
Mom's Cancer
AuthorBrian Fies
ISBN0810958406
How does one deal when the only parent you have left is diagnosed with cancer? Brian Fies created a web comic to deal with the looming death of loved one.

This book is the complete collection of the strips from the orginal Eisner Award winning web comic. This is a physical copy of something that...
Cancer Vixen
AuthorMarisa Acocella Marchetto
ISBN0307263576
What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, single-forever, about-to-get-married big-city girl cartoonist with a fabulous life finds... a lump in her breast?

That/s the question that sets this powerful, funny, and poignant...
A Life Force
AuthorWill Eisner
ISBN0393328031
The second in Eisner's Contract with God trilogy, historical fiction, set in 1934 as the Depression was well under way and the forces of communism/socialism/Nazism swirled as a response to world economic events. The story, set on Manhattan's lower east side, Drops Avenue, owes much to nineteenth...
Syncopated: An Anthology of Nonfiction Picto-Essays
AuthorBrendan Burford
ISBN0345505298
The stories in Syncopated challenge convention, provide perspective, and search out secret truths–all in the inviting, accessible form of comics.

Syncopated will give you a daringly different view of the past–from the history of vintage postcards to the glory days of old Coney Island....
I Face the Wind
AuthorVicki Cobb
ISBN0688178405
Ever lose your hat in a strong wind?
Ever feel the wind pushing you from side to side?
Know why you can feel the wind, but never see it?
You will! Renowned science author Vicki Cobb makes scientific principles easy for even the youngest kids to understand. Follow this book with a young child...
Freddie and Me: A Coming-of-Age (Bohemian) Rhapsody
AuthorMike Dawson
ISBN1596914769
High Fidelity meets Wayne’s World in this utterly charming graphic memoir about a young man’s life-long obsession with the rock band Queen.
All of us have had that one band with which we identify, the band that was always there for us during good times and bad. For Mike Dawson it's...
The Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea
AuthorSy Montgomery
ISBN0618496416

Travel with the scientists as they trek deep into the New Guinea wilderness to locate the elusive Matschie's tree kangaroo.

The photography featured in this book is nothing short of stunning. The full color photographs include both scenic pieces, which
capture the beauty of the...
Pitch Black
AuthorYoume Landowne
ISBN1933693061
On the subway, do ever notice that people are always looking, but they only see what they want to? Things can be sitting right in front of them and still they can’t see it.

That’s your guide Anthony speaking. He’ll show you how he lives in the tunnels underneath the New York City subway system—that...
The Amazing "True" Story of a Teenage Single Mom
AuthorKatherine Arnoldi
ISBN0786864206
This is a great little book that I have never been able to find since I bought it for a dollar at a local bookstore. I really hope it hasn't gone out of print, because I want to buy tons of copies to donate to libraries. It's a straightforward story of a 17 year old woman from a working class community and the first...
Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist
AuthorJan Greenberg
ISBN0440419174
   Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist was named a Robert F. Sibert Honor book by the ALA. This is the enthralling biography of the nineteenth-century Dutch painter known for pioneering new techniques and styles in masterpieces such as Starry Night and Vase with Sunflowers. The book cites detailed...
Fortune and Glory: A True Hollywood Comic Book Story
AuthorBrian Michael Bendis
ISBN1929998066
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY gave him an A, Hollywood insiders fell all over themselves to praise him, and fans everywhere gave him a full thumbs-up for hilarity. Now, on the heels of his praise and punishment, Brian Michael Bendis puts his sold-out miniseries, FORTUNE & GLORY, into one hefty volume....
Dread
AuthorClive Barker
Look at me actually hitting the tbr pile :). I bought this new. In 1993! I'm catching up.

I read Dread in Books of Blood Volume 2 a few years back and found it a bit difficult to get into. This graphic novel still makes the skin crawl but cuts out a lot of the tedious talk that bogged down the novella....
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