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First Comics for
​Brand-New Readers

200-300 Easy Sight Words / Short Sentences / Often One Character
Single Time Frame or Theme / 1-2 Panels Per Page

INTEREST LEVEL: Age 3+
READING LEVEL: Grades K-1​

Award-Winning
Level 1 Paperback Collection

A Trip to the Bottom of the World by Frank Viva

Chick and Chickie Play All Day! by Claude Ponti

Silly Lilly and the Four Seasons by Agnès Rosenstiehl

​The collection covers all these
​K-1 Curriculum themes:

• NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards) / Antarctica: A Trip to the Bottom of the World With Mouse​
• Alphabet / Emotions: Chick & Chickie Play All Day
• Seasons: Silly Lilly and the Four Seasons
• Humor / Growth / Personal Care: Little Mouse Gets Ready
• Humor / Emotions / Mastering Fear: Jack and the Box
• Imagination: Tippy and the Night Parade
• Animals / Pigeons: The Real Poop on Pigeons
• Animals / Worms: We Dig Worms!

Little Mouse Gets Ready by Jeff Smith

Jack and the Box by Art Spiegelman

The Real Poop on Pigeons!

We Dig Worms!

Tippy and the Night Parade by Lilli Carré

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Easy-to-Read Comics
for Emerging Readers

INTEREST LEVEL: Age 4+
READING LEVEL: Grades 1-2

300-600 Easy Sight Words / Short Sentences and Repetition / Story Arc with Few Characters in a Small World / 1-4 Panels Per Page

​Award-Winning
Level 2 Paperback Collection

Benny and Penny in the Big No-No by Geoffrey Hayes

Benny and Penny in the Toy Breaker by Geoffrey Hayes

Benjamin Bear in Fuzzy Thinking by Philippe Coudray

Luke on the Loose by Harry Bliss

The collection covers all ​these
Grades 1-2 Curriculum Themes:

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• Genre / Mystery  Benny and Penny in The Big No-No!
• Growth / Bullying  Benny and Penny in The Toy Breaker
• Humor / Imagination  Benjamin Bear in Fuzzy Thinking
• Humor / Emotions / Mastering Independence  Luke on the Loose 
• Character Education  Maya Makes a Mess
• Growth / Emotions / Mastering Anger Nina in That Makes Me Mad​
• Growth / Making New Friends  Stinky
• Growth / Adventure  The Big Wet Balloon​

Maya Makes A Mess by Rutu Modan

Nina in That Makes Me Mad by Hilary Knight

Stinky by Eleanor Davis

The Big Wet Balloon by Liniers

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Chapter Books for
​Advanced Beginners

INTEREST LEVEL: Age 6+
READING LEVEL: Grades 3+

800-1000+ Words in long sentences / Long story divided into chapters / Broad world as well as shifts in time and place / 
​Reader needs to make connections and speculate

Award-Winning
​Level 3 Paperback Collection

The Shark King by R. Kikuo Johnson

The collection covers all these
​Grades 2-3 Curriculum Themes:

• ​Growth / Overcoming Obsessions Otto's Orange Day​
• Biology / Food Chain  Zig and Wikki in Something Ate My Homework
• Emotions / Working cooperatively  Mo and Jo Fighting Together Forever 
• Growth / Language Arts / Palindromes Otto's Backward Day​
• Growth / Coming of Age  The Shark King
• Biology / Ecosystems Zig and Wikki in The Cow

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Mo and Jo Fighting Together Forever by Dean Haspiel

Otto's Orange Day by Frank Cammuso

Otto's Backwards Day by Frank Cammuso

Zig and Wikki in Something Ate My Homework by Nadja Spiegelman

Zig and Wikki in The Cow by Nadja Spiegelman

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Graphics for Middle Grade
​Visual Readers

INTEREST LEVEL: Age 8+
READING LEVEL: Grades 3-6

​Award-winning
​TOON Graphic Core Collection

Black Heroes of the Wild West by James Otis Smith

The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from Latin America by Jaime Hernandez

The collection covers these
Middle Grade Curriculum Themes:

• US History / Black History / Reconstruction Era / Black Heroes of the Wild West​
• Folktales​ / Latin Culture  The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from Latin America
• Folktales / Latin Culture Blancaflor,The Hero with Secret Powers: A Folktale from Latin America (Coming 2021)
• Folktales / Adventure  The White Snake​
• Transportation / Growth  Lost in NYC: A Subway Adventure​
• Fantasy Secret of the Stone Frog

Blancaflor by by Nadja Spiegelman & Sergio García Sánchez

The White Snake by Ben Nadler

Lost in NYC: A Subway Adventure by Nadja Spiegelman

The Secret of the Stone Frog by David Nytra

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