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Ready to build a graphic novel? First, you'll need the right tools. Open this title in the Writer's Toolbox series and discover plenty of tips and tools to get you started. Soon you'll be filling panels, boxes, and bubbles like a pro!

Product Identifiers

PublisherCapstone

ISBN-101404860169

ISBN-139781404860162

eBay Product ID (ePID)84528123

Product Key Features

GenreJuvenile Nonfiction, Comics & Graphic Novels

Publication Year2010

LanguageEnglish

Artist/WriterShaskan, Trisha Speed, Shaskan, Stephen

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Length9in

Item Height0.3in

Item Width11in

Item Weight0.9 Oz

Additional Product Features

Number of Pages32 Pages

Professional GraderSecond Grade

Intended AudienceAges 9-12, Ages 4-8, Ages 2-3, under 2 Years

Book TitleArt Panels, Bam! Speech Bubbles, Pow! : Writing Your Own Graphic Novel

Lccn2010-000887

Number of Volumes1 Vol.

Grade toFourth Grade

Dewey Decimal741.5/1

Lc Classification NumberPn6710.S47 2010

SeriesWriter's Toolbox Ser.

Era Range7-9

ReviewsEasy, direct, step-by-step instructions demystify graphic novels and related cartoon-based texts. Bright, uncomplicated spreads illustrate the process and include useful information about elements such as narrative boxes, thumbnail sketches, and speech bubbles. Adaptable for primary-grade use while interested upper-grade students will solo to success., Two new entries in the picture-book-size Writer's Toolbox series explore two very different mediums--plays and comics--but, taken together, underscore the importance of basic fundamentals in effective writing. Both books combine original artwork and a number of "Tools" to get the creative juices flowing. Action! uses the classic story of John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt to illuminate the 14 tools budding playwrights should keep in their arsenal, ranging from suggestions to plan out and cast your story first, to tips about stage directions, dialogue, and props. Throughout, Beacon's art depicts scenes of the two J. J. J. Schmidts engaged in goofy high jinks alongside excerpts from the script. Art Panels, Bam! Speech Bubbles, Pow! features a young girl creating a comic about a dog and his lost bone and starts out with fairly broad directives to read other graphic novels for inspiration and brainstorm story ideas, before getting into graphic-novel-specific tips on laying out panel arrangements and dabbling in emanata and speech bubbles. When the tools get a bit vague (like how exactly to go about making thumbnail sketches), the art picks up the slack to more clearly convey what is being discussed. A handful of "Getting Started Exercises" provide even more fodder for artistic inspiration in these genuinely good-natured and helpful introductions to creative writing.

Dewey Edition22

Target AudienceJuvenile Audience

IllustratedYes

TopicLanguage Arts / Composition & Creative Writing, Nonfiction / General, Comics & Graphic Novels / General