Snow: One of the biggest issues librarians face is how to determine what titles are for what age ranges. There are many factors that go into decisions about age appropriateness, such as content, intended audience, theme, appeal factors, etc. The staff at Good Comics for Kids feels that the Manga Moveable Feast week—which just wrapped up its focused on manga for children, specifically Yotsuba&! by Kiyohiko Azuma (Yen Press)–gave us an excellent opportunity to share our thoughts on that decision making process. To that end, we’d like to turn our attention now to Graphic Novel Reporter’s recently released… Read More
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Manga Moveable Feast: Discussion: Graphic Novel Reporter’s Core Manga for Kids List
Monday, September 6th, 2010Manga Movable Feast: Yotsuba&! and the Question of Appeal
Friday, September 3rd, 2010
During this week’s Manga Movable Feast, everyone’s been talking about the fact that in Japan, Yotsuba&! is published in a magazine intended for adult men. For many reviewers, the fact that they know that the title is intended for an adult audience has led them to ask why Yotsuba&! is being considered as an appealing title for young readers. Reactions range from head scratching to outright shock that anyone considers this title good for kids.
The fact that Yotsuba&! was originally… Read More
Manga Movable Feast: Reviewing Kids Manga Roundtable
Friday, September 3rd, 2010As we are hosting the Manga Movable Feast this month taking a look at kids manga, we all thought this was a great time to share the joys and difficulties of reviewing manga for kids. A lot of questions come up when reviewing for kids, especially as all of us are a significant number of years away from being kids ourselves. Manga adds more complications to the mix as so few have been published in the US and the original intended audience in Japan can call into question just who titles are best suited for outside of Japan… Read More
Manga Moveable Feast: Interview: Traci Todd, VIZ Kids
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010As part of our participation in this month’s Manga Moveable Feast—which is focused on manga for children, specifically Yotsuba&! by Kiyohiko Azuma (published by Yen Press)—we thought we’d speak with Traci Todd, Senior Editor of VIZ Kids. Traci started at VIZ in May of 2008. Before that she was a children’s editor at Chronicle Books for three years. She also spent several years in educational publishing, and started her career as a writer for You Don’t Know Jack and its educational sister That’s a Fact, Jack!
Good Comics for Kids: How do you select the… Read More
Manga Movable Feast: Kids’ Table Archive
Monday, August 30th, 2010From your hosts
- Good Manga for Kids, January 2010 (Yotsuba&! vol. 6-7)
- Interview: Traci Todd, VIZ Kids
- Manga Movable Feast: Discussion: Graphic Novel Reporter’s Core Manga for Kids List
- Manga Movable Feast: Kids’ Table Introduction
- Manga Movable Feast: Reviewing Kids Manga Roundtable
- Manga Movable Feast: Yotsuba&! and the Question of Appeal
- Watch This Space! The Manga Movable Feast is here!
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Manga Movable Feast: Kids’ Table Introduction!
Monday, August 30th, 2010Welcome to the Manga Movable Feast: Kids’ Table!
For this week, bloggers, commentators, and reviewers will be discussing Yotsuba&! by Kiyohiko Azuma from Yen Press plus one kids friendly manga title of their choice. For more on the Mange Movable Feast, please check out the call for entries here. Participants, please send your links to entries to me at robin (at) noflyingnotights.com.
To give everyone a bit of background on the series:
From the Yen Press site:
“Yotsuba is a strange little girl with a
Watch this space: The Manga Movable Feast is here!
Friday, August 27th, 2010Starting next Monday, August 29th, we will be hosting a special installment of the Manga Movable Feast zeroing in on kids manga.
What is the Manga Movable Feast? For one week, a wide assortment of reviewers, bloggers, and commentators agree to discuss one manga title. The brain child of the first host, David Welsh over at the Manga Curmudgeon, the Manga Movable Feast is a dedicated forum for reviews, commentary, features, and opinions. Discussion expands through cross-posting and comments as the week continues. … Read More
