Graphic Novel Reporter’s Spring Preview Is Now Available

There are a million Spring Previews out right now [click here for the RA Online index to all of them], but the one I have been pouring through all day is the huge Spring preview by Graphic Novel Reporter.

Click through for access.

Separated into Kids, Teen, and Adult, there is plenty of information here for you to make collection development choices and to get some early holds in for your GN readers.

I am most excited about Saga Vol 3 (released last week) and this one:

The Great American Documents: Vol. 1: 1620–1830

Ruth Ashby, Ernie Colón, and Russell Motter

Hill and Wang

9780809094608

May 13

The essential primer on 20 of the most influential American documents between 1620 and 1830, The Great American Documents series, written by the graphic-book author Ruth Ashby and illustrated by the renowned Ernie Colón, tells the history of America through the major speeches, laws, proclamations, court decisions, and essays that shaped it.Volume 1 introduces as the series narrator none other than Uncle Sam, who walks readers through 20 major documents bookended by the Mayflower Compact in 1620 and the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Each document gets its own chapter, in which Uncle Sam explains not only its key passages but its origins, how it came to be written, and its impact. In the chapter “The Maryland Toleration Act” we learn that the document was one of the first blueprints for modern religious tolerance. “Common Sense” depicts the Boston Tea Party and the British response as the prelude to Paine’s stirring pamphlet. And “The Louisiana Purchase Treaty” closes with Lewis and Clark setting off to map Jefferson’s “empire of liberty.”As Ashby shows, the creation of that empire made for immense prosperity but also entailed the extension of slavery and the forcible removal of the Indians. Her balanced and teachable theme is that these twenty documents embodied our early struggles to live up to the principles of liberty and equality. A handy and elegantly concise guide, this masterfully illustrated volume is the perfect book for students of American history, young and old.