Imagination Meets Paper
Opening a book is like unlocking a door to a limitless place where imagination comes to life. Raina Telgemeier illustrates this concept in her masterpiece, Ghosts. In this exceptional graphic novel, a girl named Cat moves to California with her family in hopes that the air by the sea will help her little sister, who suffers from a lung disease called Cystic Fibrosis, breathe. In California, imagination becomes a reality when Cat realizes that the town is full of Day of the Dead ghosts. When Cat’s sister, Maya, befriends these cheerful ghosts, Cat must set aside her fears in order to look out for her sister’s safety. Ghosts is a beautifully written novel that is crucial to the Little Free Library in Pembroke Elementary because it is a graphic novel, the author is very popular, and it has a beautiful message. …show more content…
The Little Free Libraries that are already in place do not have many graphic novels at the moment. Graphic novels have many different benefits for students; not only are they extremely engaging, but they can also help struggling readers engage in more reading (Brightly). These types of books can help kids who are not strong readers still fall in love with books. With Pembroke Meadows’ reading proficiency of 88 percent, which is very low in comparison to Old Donation School’s score of 100 percent (Virginia Department of Education), it would be a wise decision to put more graphic novels like Ghosts in the Little Free Library. It has even been proved by professors that graphic novels can have a significant impact on an elementary school student’s reading proficiency (Teale). Just being a graphic novel, though, is not enough to make a good book; it takes an exceptional author to make an exceptional graphic
Opening a book is like unlocking a door to a limitless place where imagination comes to life. Raina Telgemeier illustrates this concept in her masterpiece, Ghosts. In this exceptional graphic novel, a girl named Cat moves to California with her family in hopes that the air by the sea will help her little sister, who suffers from a lung disease called Cystic Fibrosis, breathe. In California, imagination becomes a reality when Cat realizes that the town is full of Day of the Dead ghosts. When Cat’s sister, Maya, befriends these cheerful ghosts, Cat must set aside her fears in order to look out for her sister’s safety. Ghosts is a beautifully written novel that is crucial to the Little Free Library in Pembroke Elementary because it is a graphic novel, the author is very popular, and it has a beautiful message. …show more content…
The Little Free Libraries that are already in place do not have many graphic novels at the moment. Graphic novels have many different benefits for students; not only are they extremely engaging, but they can also help struggling readers engage in more reading (Brightly). These types of books can help kids who are not strong readers still fall in love with books. With Pembroke Meadows’ reading proficiency of 88 percent, which is very low in comparison to Old Donation School’s score of 100 percent (Virginia Department of Education), it would be a wise decision to put more graphic novels like Ghosts in the Little Free Library. It has even been proved by professors that graphic novels can have a significant impact on an elementary school student’s reading proficiency (Teale). Just being a graphic novel, though, is not enough to make a good book; it takes an exceptional author to make an exceptional graphic