Tag: elementary
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Hikaru in the Light Booklist Review *
Title: Hikaru in the Light Volume: 1 Mangaka: Mai Matsuda Translator: US Publisher: Scholastic Graphix Age Relevance: Elementary & Up How Essential Is It?: Essential Curricular Connections?: Music, Healthy Competition Reader’s Advisory Tags: Friendship, Idol Groups, Comedy, Drama, Slice of Life, Seinen Anime: N/A Content Warnings: Brief implied nudity during bathing scene Publisher Synopsis: “In order to get up on stage, you need…
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Lesson Plan: Manga & Comic Con Project Based Learning
This post is a little different. I’m going to share with you a PBL that I did at my elementary school which led to a school wide convention. You do not necessarily need to have a con as your POL, and you don’t need to have every grade participate as we did. This was a…
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Manga Review: Cat + Gamer
Title: Cat + Gamer (猫暮らしのゲーマーさん, Nekogurashi no Gēmā-san) Mangaka: Wataru Nadatani US Publisher: Dark Horse Status: Ongoing Age Relevance: Elementary & Up How Essential Is It?: Must Have (According to Me) Curricular Connections?: Independent reading. Reader’s Advisory Tags: Video games, cats, female protagonists, humor. Content Warnings: None! Publisher Synopsis: Riko, a twenty-nine-year-old office worker with an obsession for video games, finds…
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Purchasing Manga & Light Novels for Elementary School Librarians and Children’s Librarians: Tips, Titles, and a Plea to Publishers
This is by far the topic I receive the most requests to cover, and my previous posting has the highest views. So, I thought it was time to put some of this into writing, put in some updates, and also put in some additional contexts. Tips for Collection Development When it comes to purchasing manga…
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Manga for Kids (Collection Development for Elementary K-5)
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