Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Novels Reinterpreted as a Graphic Novel


Twilight: the graphic novel. By Yong-bin Kim. Yen Press, 2010.
A manga-style graphic novel adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's popular "Twilight" series. In the first volume when seventeen-year-old Bella moves to Forks, Washington she falls in love with Edward Cullen.

Coraline. Adapted & illustrated by P. Craig Russell. HarperCollins, 2008.
Neil Gaiman's spooky tale about a young girl who discovers a secret door in her new house. When Coraline steps through a door she discovers another house strangely similar to her own with a sinister "Other Mother." 



Dracula by Michael Mucci. Sterling, 2008.
Bram Stoker's "Dracula" is adapted for young readers with action and humor while staying true to the original tale about Jonathan Harker who travels to Transylvania and meets the evil Count Dracula.

 
Vampire Kisses: Blood Relatives. Adapted by Diana McKeon Charkalis. Tokyopop, p2007
Raven is a vampire-obsessed Goth girl whose romantic dreams come true when she meets Alexander Sterling.

 

The Baby-Sitter's Club. Kristy's Great Idea. By Raina Telgemeier. Graphix, 2006.
Ann Martin's baby-sitters are back in a heart-warming graphic novel series about the friendship of four middle-school students-Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia, and Stacey who start a babysitting service.

Artemis Fowl : the graphic novel. Adapted by Eoin Colfer & Andrew Donkin. Hyperion Books for Children, 2007.
Artemis Fowl is 12-year-old evil genius mastermind who has stolen the book of the fairies and captures a fairy in exchange for gold. But the fairies are prepared to use magic to fight back.  

 
Percy Jackson & the Olympians. Book One, The Lightning Thief. Disney/Hyperion Books, 2010.
After being kicked out of his sixth school Percy learns that his father is the Greek god Poseidon and he goes on a quest with two of his friends from Camp Half Blood.

Maximum Ride: the manga.1.  James Patterson & NaRae Lee. Yen Press, 2009.
Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the members of her "flock" - Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel are human/bird creations hiding out in the wilderness until Angel, the youngest of them, is kidnapped and they must save her.

Cirque du Freak.  Story by Darren Shan ; Manga by Takahiro Arai. Yen Press, 2009.
To save his best friend Darren Shaw fakes his own death and becomes half a vampire traveling with Cirque du Freak.




Avalon High Coronation Volume 1, The Merlin Prophecy. By Meg Cabot. TokyoPop, 2007.
In this modern adaptation of the Arthurian epic Ellie is a new student at Avalon High where several of the students incluignd her new boyfriend are reincarnations from the  King Arthur tale.



 
 

No comments:

Post a Comment