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21 reviews for:
The Long-Distance Dispatch Between Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang (the Popularity Papers #2)
Amy Ignatow
3.97 AVERAGE
21 reviews for:
The Long-Distance Dispatch Between Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang (the Popularity Papers #2)
Amy Ignatow
3.97 AVERAGE
I liked this a lot more than I was expecting to. Fun realistic fiction for 4th and 5th graders about starting middle school. The characters were funny and the lessons on popularity and friendship were refreshing (and not condescending or preachy.) I wish I would have read the first one and may go back to it. I also loved the fact that both girls have non-traditional families (Lydia has a single mom and Julie has two dads) without it being a big deal. Will recommend often!
One Sentence Review: While not quite hitting the high marks of its predecessor, Ignatow still manages to bring a fresh funny face to the great big world of notebook novels.
I have a handful of burgeoning readers. I say burgeoning, because they are the ones who are hungry but don't yet have a full place setting at the table. They see their friends change books like...underwear...(yes, I live in a household of boys. What are you going to say about it?)and yet there they sit with a graphic novel in their hand. Chances are, this is the third or fourth go-round with the graphic novel. Sure, they've read "meatier" reads this year, but only because of their teacher's constant encouragement (okay, nagging). They cleave to their graphic novels like a new mom does to her pillow. It's comfort. It's peace. It's familiar. It's restful. AND IT IS READING.
Enter the second graphic novel for Amy Ignatow's sure-to-be long career. The Popularity Papers is the perfect combination of diary/email/(dare I say it?) comic book that will surely be as popular as my first "well loved" copy of her books. A tale of friendship no matter the distance is one that my girls will certainly identify with. But it is the quiet whisperings of being true to one's own compass is what makes this seemingly comfortable, peaceful, familiar and restful book so important. Girls need to see the what it is to enter the trying times of junior high and watch vicariously as girls much like themselves maneuver tricky situations. Friends who aren't your friends? Pressure to fit in? Insecurities about what you look like, wear or how you talk? Yep. The answers, or surely the beginnings of how to get those answers are all hidden in the pages of Ignatow's cleverly written and illustrated book.
So, yes, this is a book and not a pillow. And it's a good thing, too. Because it'll be passed from hand to hand by the burgeoners making them have a true place at the table of reading.
*ARC courtesy of publishing house, read and enjoyed, and then quickly passed to the right at the table.
Enter the second graphic novel for Amy Ignatow's sure-to-be long career. The Popularity Papers is the perfect combination of diary/email/(dare I say it?) comic book that will surely be as popular as my first "well loved" copy of her books. A tale of friendship no matter the distance is one that my girls will certainly identify with. But it is the quiet whisperings of being true to one's own compass is what makes this seemingly comfortable, peaceful, familiar and restful book so important. Girls need to see the what it is to enter the trying times of junior high and watch vicariously as girls much like themselves maneuver tricky situations. Friends who aren't your friends? Pressure to fit in? Insecurities about what you look like, wear or how you talk? Yep. The answers, or surely the beginnings of how to get those answers are all hidden in the pages of Ignatow's cleverly written and illustrated book.
So, yes, this is a book and not a pillow. And it's a good thing, too. Because it'll be passed from hand to hand by the burgeoners making them have a true place at the table of reading.
*ARC courtesy of publishing house, read and enjoyed, and then quickly passed to the right at the table.
I like the way that they communicated and all the drawings although it didn't totally hook me.
I did not find this book to be as funny as the first book in the series. Also, this book seemed to contain a lot more writing by Lydia than the first book, which I hated, because Lydia has horrible handwriting that is hard to read. I would love to see more writing by Julie and much less writing from Lydia or a change in Lydia's handwriting that makes it easier to read. It's just annoying to have to struggle to actually decipher her terrible handwriting. I enjoyed the Papa Dad and Daddy characters a lot in this book. They are very entertaining. I will say the same thing that I said with the first book as far as the dad's are concerned, if a book with gay dads makes you uncomfortable, then you may want to skip this one. It was nice seeing the characters take shape a bit more in this book. I look forward to reading the next book in this series.
yeah so i kept reading middle-grade
Really loved the first installment of this as a kid so I binged all the volumes of it that I could get my hands on. This one's cute! (All of them are generally cute. This feedback will repeat as I pad my reading challenge with em.) Really funny how they make London this mythical exotic place, and handling the Bichons felt... so middle-school and real. God.
Really loved the first installment of this as a kid so I binged all the volumes of it that I could get my hands on. This one's cute! (All of them are generally cute. This feedback will repeat as I pad my reading challenge with em.) Really funny how they make London this mythical exotic place, and handling the Bichons felt... so middle-school and real. God.
funny
informative
lighthearted
fast-paced
Just not as good as the original. Not the laugh-out-loud-funny I was expecting. But still very good! Great character development.
It’s always fun re-reading an old childhood fav.