Whenever we have a free afternoon, my nine-year-old and I visit our favorite bookshop. By now, we have a routine. Ella makes a beeline to the graphic novels. Unlike prose, which takes her days to read ...

Classic novels are getting a makeover. You may have noticed familiar titles such as "The Baby-Sitters Club" series, "The Jungle," "To Kill a Mockingbird," "Parable of the Sower," and "Watership Down," ...

WATSONVILLE — Since their inception in the ’70s, graphic novels have remained a popular book format, placing just as much emphasis on the words used to tell stories as the visuals used to capture them ...

In "Big Jim and the White Boy," writer David Walker and illustrator Marcus Kwame Anderson have reimagined "Huckleberry Finn." They talk with NPR's Scott Simon about the new graphic novel. Mark Twain's ...

SANTA CRUZ — Walk into any bookstore or library, and you will be guaranteed to find a plethora of graphic novels, maybe even entire sections dedicated to them. The combination of text and vivid ...

Author Jessica Gordon-Nembhard and a graphic novel adaptation of her book, “Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice.” Political economist and author ...

Whenever we have a free afternoon, my nine-year-old and I visit our favorite bookshop. By now, we have a routine. Ella makes a beeline to the graphic novels. Her favorite books—such as Smile, Roller ...