Top 10 Children’s comics November 2015

Online comics are now free to stream through ComicsPlus!  There’s a children’s collection to browse through including Top Ten numero uno Big Nate.

Author Lincoln Peirce has Big Nate titles in books and comics. The comics are really popular so if you can’t find one, head over to the fiction shelves for a browse.  The Big Nate website has some corker reviews, most beloved by the author was, “Big Nate Is Going To Blow Your Pants Off!”, a pretty high accolade!

You can submit your own review as part of the Summer Reading Challenge, we’d love to hear what you think.

 

Here’s your Top 10:

  1. Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce
  2. The complete Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz
  3. Pokémon by Hidenori Kusaka
  4. Tintin by Hergé
  5. Garfield by Mark Evanier
  6. Adventure time by Ryan North
  7. Amulet by Kazu Kibuishi
  8. Chi’s sweet home by Kanata Konami
  9. Sonic saga series by Ian Flynn
  10. Asterix omnibus by Gscinny and Udzero

6 New children’s non fiction just in time for Summer

Summer is coming (we promise!), which means long warm days to relax with a great read, or two! These have just hit the shelves, grab them while they’re hot!

 

Why Should I bother to keep fit?

This book offers children an approachable source of information on key subjects such as why keeping fit is good for you, how to choose the appropriate exercise regime and a how to stay healthy in day-to-day life.

 

 

Why shouldn’t I eat junk food?

This book describes food that is nutritious and healthy and food that does not have many nutrients.

 

 

 

Redstone : the unofficial guide to tips and tricks that other guides won’t teach you.

Packed with expert tips, cheats, and hacks on redstone. With over one hundred screenshots, Hacks for Minecrafters: Redstone shows exactly how the experts wield redstone power, and how you can construct some classic and crazy contraptions and machines. Detailed step-by-step illustrated guides will let every player use redstone to defend their buildings in inventive ways. A must read fro Minecraft fans.

 

Command blocks : the unofficial guide to tips and tricks that other guides won’t teach you.

By reading this book, kids will learn everything they need to know about manipulating and programming command blocks within Minecraft. This book also has tons of fun tricks and projects for making your own custom maps and mini-games. Another must read fro Minecraft fans.

 

Adventure Time: The making of awesomeness.

filled with quirky, vibrant, irreverent and eccentric images and information, Adventure Time’s weird and wonderful post-apocalyptic world has captured the hearts of fans young and old, worldwide. Great for ages 7 years and over.

 

The Tudors : kings, queens, scribes and ferrets.

This is a simple books that details the life and times of all the Tudor Monarchs, including Henry VIII and his six wives, Queen Elizabeth I’s victorious win against the Spanish Armada and special appearances from Christopher Columbus, William Shakespeare and a scribe’s pet ferret.

Top 10 Children’s comics October 2015

Charlie Brown and the gang have topped the charts. A winning combination of great characters and cool dialogue this classic comic strip remains a favourite.

Want to find out more about comics and graphic novels? The brother sister team responsible for Babymouse, Matthew and Jennifer L. Holm, have some info and links on their Babymouse website.  If you like their style check out their new title, Sunny Side Up set in Florida.   Jennifer is the writer for Babymouse, and she’s written some great books as well.  She won a Newbery Honor award for a couple of books, we have one of them,  Turtle in Paradise right here.

Jennifer and Matthew Holms’ new comic is really popular so remember its free to reserve on your kids card.  So if you’re looking through the catalogue and you see something you like use your library card number to reserve it to the best branch for you to pick up

 

Here’s your Top 10:

1.   The complete Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz

2.   Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce

3.   Pokemon by Hidenori Kusaka and Satoshi Yamamoto

4.   Garfield by Mark Evanier

5.   Adventure time by Ryan North

6.   Amulet by Kazu Kibuishi

7.   Asterix omnibus by Goscinny and Udzero

8.  Chi’s sweet home by Kanata Konami

9.   Babymouse by Jennifer L. Holm and Matt Holm

10. Sonic saga series by Ian Fynn

Top 10 Children’s Comics August 2015

And the results are in… The classic comics power block Charlie Brown, Tintin and Asterix still rank strongly, but coming in at a new 10th place is Sonic! will the boomers (Sonic fans) change up the results table, we will have to wait another nail biting, comic reading month!

Fourth place holder Pokémon is about to get a whole lot more interactive, have you guys seen whats coming out next year?!

1.   The complete Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz

2.   Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce

3.   Tintin by  Hergé

4.   Pokémon by Hidenori Kusaka

5.   Adventure time by Ryan North

6.   Asterix by Goscinny and Udzero

7.   Amulet by Kazu Kibuishi

8.   Chi’s sweet home by Kanata Konami

9.   Garfield by Mark Evanier

10.  Sonic saga series by Ian Flynn

 

         

Top 10 comics July 2015

As popular as some of the new comic series are (Adventure Time Vol. 6 has just hit the shelves) old favourites like Tintin hold their place in the running.  Long before popular film directors were making cameo appearances in their movies Hergé was adding himself into his comics.  Wondering who the blond guy with the big nose is? See if you can spot the creator in these comics.  Let us know in the comments (page number, title of comic and description of the character) and we’ll see if you agree with the experts

 

1. The complete Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz

2. Pokemon, by Hidenori Kusaka

3. Big Nate series, by Lincoln Pierce

4. Garfield, by Mark Evanier

5. Tintin, by Herge

6. Adventure time series, by Ryan North

7. Amulet series, by Kazu Kibuishi

8. Chi’s sweet home series by Kanata Konmai

9. Asterix omnibus by Goscinny and Udzero

10. Warriors series, by Dan Jolley

 

Top 10 comics for January 2015

Brand new year for the library! But the old favorites are still going strong in the junior comics section.  Are any of these your favorites?

1.   Pokémon, by Hidenori Kusaka

2.   The complete Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz

3.   Garfield, by Mark Evanier

4.   Big Nate, by Lincoln Peirce

5.   Amulet by Kazu Kibuishi

6.   Chi’s sweet home, by Kanata Konami

7.    Asterix omnibus, by Goscinny and Udzero

8.   Adventure time, by Ryan North

9.   Warriors, by Dan Jolley

10. Babymouse, by Jennifer L. Holm

Top 10 children’s comics for November

Favourite illustrators and storytellers old and new grace this leaderboard.   Adventure Time won a Will Eisner award for lettering at  Comic-Con International this year. The kids have got style!

1.   Pokemon by Hidenori Kusaka

2.   Big Nate by Lincoln Pierce

3.   The complete Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz

4.   Asterix by Goscinny and Udzero

5.   Amulet by Kibuishi Kazu

6.   Garfield by Mark Evanier

7.   Chi’s sweet home by Kanata Konami

8.   Adventure time by Ryan North

9.   Red Rackham’s treasure by Herge

10. My little pony by Katie Cook

Top 10 Children’s DVDs for October

These are the most popular in the library collection!  My Little Pony adventures have been top billing for 4 months! *applause* if you were a pony you would be stomping… only Twilight Sparkles would clap. To celebrate, feast like a pony, they only eat sweets, baked goods and flowers (you might want to add an apple or a couple of carrot sticks!).

1.  My little pony, friendship is magic.
2.  Dino Dan.
3.  Legends of Chima.
4.  Strawberry Shortcake.
5.  Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
6.  Dinosaur train.
7.  Shaun the sheep.
8.  The Garfield show.
9.  Adventure time.
10. The Lego movie.

Top 10 children’s comics for October

These comics have been borrowed from the library many times in 2014 -they’re so popular! Any of your favourites in here?

 

1.  Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce

2.  Pokémon by Hidenori Kusaka

3.  The complete Peanuts by Charles Schulz

4.  Amulet by Kazu Kibuishi

5.  Asterix omnibus by Goscinny and Udzero

6.  Chi’s sweet home by Kanata Konami

7.  Babymouse by Jennifer L. Holm

8.  Adventure time by Ryan North, Ryan

9.  Who stole the Mona Lisa? by Geronimo Stilton

10. Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse color Sundays by Floyd Gottfredson

 

Top 10 Children’s comics for September

Geronimo Stilton makes a comeback into the running and Pokémon is the standout lead in this month’s comic poll for the favourite read.

1.   Pokémon by Hidenori Kusaka

2.   Big Nate by Lincoln Pierce

3.   Chi’s sweet home by Kanata Konami

4.   Amulet by Kazu Kibuishi

5.   The complete Peanuts by Charles M Schulz

6.   Asterix Omnibus by Goscinny and Udzero

7.   Warriors by Dan Jolley

8.  Adventure time by Ryan North

9.  Who stole Mona Lisa? by Geronimo Stilton

10.Tintin and the Picaros by Hergé