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1) Another
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"A young girl and her cat take an imaginative journey into another world"--
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Black Authors: Board and Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
Celebrating Black Creators
OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
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Celebrating Black Creators
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In this wordless retelling of an Aesop fable set in the African Serengeti, an adventuresome mouse proves that even small creatures are capable of great deeds when she rescues the King of the Jungle.
3) Robot dreams
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The enduring friendship between a dog and a robot is portrayed in this wordless graphic novel.
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"Stick man is the guy you see around town, but don't really know very well. He seems nice. He gives up his seat at the front of the bus for those in greater need. He throws his litter away in the proper trash receptacle. He even indicates when it's safe to cross the street. He also helpfully demonstrates, by way of warning and at great personal peril, what happens if you don't mind the subway gap, stray too close to the cliff's edge, slip on a wet...
5) Leaf
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"In this wordless, all-ages graphic novel, our protagonist discovers a leaf that radiates a vibrant life. He returns to a meticulously wrought metropolis -- depicted in somber grays and blues -- and searches for answers. During his quest, he stumbles upon a man who knows what's really happening in the city's labyrinthine ducts; a woman who spends her life studying and classifying obsolete flora; and the truth about the ever-dwindling environment."--Page...
6) Cat 'n' Bat
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"There's no friendship quite like the friendship between two idiots"--Back cover.
7) The lab
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This "silent" graphic novel follows a nameless subject trapped in a nightmarish test facility, raising unsettling questions of exploitation and oppression. The Lab is a wordless visual journey into the grim machinery of exploitation. Its nameless protagonist is held in solitary captivity, alternately poked, prodded, starved, drugged, and worse. Brief glimpses of other test subjects, undergoing their own ordeals, are few and far between. But is all...
8) The tiger
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Love volume 1
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"Life in the jungle can be both beautiful and savage... A lush paradise when viewed from a distance, providing camouflage to a daily Hell of trials and survival for those who live there. Portrayed as a day in the life of the king of the jungle, this lavishly illustrated story follows a single majestic tiger through a wordless adventure as it hunts prey and defends itself from other would-be killers defending their own territory. This exciting tale...
9) Quest
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Journey trilogy (Aaron Becker) volume 2
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In the Caldecott Honor-winning Journey, much of Becker's energy was devoted to the story's exquisite backdrops. Now, in the second wordless book of his planned trilogy, the focus is on his characters. On a rainy day in a city park, the girl who starred in Journey and the boy introduced at the end take refuge by a doorway under a bridge. To their surprise, a king emerges from the door just long enough to pass the two a map before soldiers apprehend...
10) Fran
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"For the past 20 years or so, Jim Woodring's beloved trilobular chuckbuster Frank has enjoyed one mindbending catastrophe after another in the treacherous embrace of The Unifactor, the land into which he was born and from which escape seemed neither desirable nor likely. And then, abruptly, in 2011's acclaimed Congress of the Animals (the second Woodring original graphic novel, following Weathercraft) Frank did leave the Unifactor for uncharted lands...
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OBD Black History Month (February) - YOUTH
OBD Coretta Scott King Award - YOUTH
Telling a People's Story
OBD Coretta Scott King Award - YOUTH
Telling a People's Story
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"Alex Haley's Roots awakened many Americans to the cruelty of slavery. The Middle Passage focuses attention on the torturous journey which brought slaves from Africa to the Americas, allowing readers to bear witness to the sufferings of an entire people"--Provided by publisher.
12) Tuba lessons
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While walking through the woods on his way to his tuba lesson, a boy becomes sidetracked by all the animals that want to hear him play.
15) Poochytown
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When Pupshaw and Pushpaw depart for the orgiastic delights of Poochytown, the forlorn Frank is thrown by a twist of fate into an unlikely friendship, propelling him down a long road of escapades and trials.
18) Bear
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"Bear, Staffan Gnosspelius's debut book, is a gorgeous visual meditation on depression. In this deeply affecting, wordless picture book for adults, a bear is maddeningly afflicted with a cone that covers his head and that he is unable to take off. He furiously stomps and yells and tears at the cone, he implores the skies and fate for relief, he is drawn to dark and wild and scary places. The depths of his sadness feel like a defeat. It's a battle...
19) The System
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A sleazy stockbroker is lining his pockets. A corrupt cop is shaking down drug dealers. A mercenary bomber is setting the timer. A serial killer is stalking strippers. A political scandal is about to explode. The planet is burning. And nobody's talking! Told without captions or dialogue, The System, a wordless graphic novel, is an astonishing progression of vivid imagery, each brilliantly executed panel containing a wealth of information, with layer...
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See a new, caring side to the legendary science fiction monster as he tends to Jonesy the cat, endeavours to keep his house cleaner than the Nostromo, and searches for his place on a cold, new, alien world: Earth. From facehuggers to feather dusters, discover how the perfect killing machine relaxes after a day of scaring space marines --
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