Graphic novels

[frozendaisy]

So I loved graphic novels as a young adults but it was very Sandman, Watchmen, batman etc heavy.

11yr old, not a prolific reader but will read graphic novels, i.e. Alex Rider.

Any suggestions for next stage interest after Alex Rider but before Watchmen! That I can get as a box set for birthday. Please.

That's a tough one. Everything tends to be single issue/TBP/collection and I don't know off the top of my head if any of the major publishers do anything as helpful as box sets.

What kind of limit are we looking at content wise and what does your child enjoy as well as Alex Rider?

What about Zita the Spacegirl?

Well there are some excellent superhero graphic novels aren’t there? Classic Batman for example. Like ‘Batman: Year One’. Extremely well written stories. They’re all based on the archetypal stories found in Greek myths anyway. They’re more suitable for younger children than a lot of graphic novels I’ve read.
When you’re asking for recommendations of graphic novels, Preacher and Hellblazer spring to mind and they’re definitely not suitable!

Or some of these might be quite good:
schoolreadinglist.co.uk/reading-lists-for-ks2-school-pupils/graphic-novels-for-ks2-children-aged-7-11/
Graphic novels of classic novels for 11 year olds. I’d say Wrinkle in Time and Jules Verne are more suitable for 11 year olds than 7 year olds.

Mine have loved

• Avatar The Last Airbender
• Amulet
• Artemis Fowl
• Mortal Instruments
• The Kane Chronicles
• Percy Jackson
• Manga like Naruto, Nausicaa, the Legend of Zelda, My Hero Academia, Attack on Titan

Amulet is the most favourite of all.

(can you tell I have reading avoidant boys )

Most of these are available in box sets too

The Phoenix comic does graphic novels for some of its series. Well worth a look. Some of the Adventure Time graphic novels might be appreciated. Agree about Amulet, love those books - the final book in the series is suppose to be coming out this year but I've not seen a release date so it might be 2022 now. DD (13) likes The LumberJanes, Heartstopper, and On a Sunbeam.

Thank you everyone will enjoy doing some research over the weekend. It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it!

He enjoyed Harry Potter (who doesn't?) But think it booked him out for a bit.

Likes Frankie Boyle I think as much as I can get out of him. Some Micheal Morpurgo.

Limited list really.

My recently turned 11 year old is a capable reader but has no interest in reading, so we go with the graphic novel approach. By graphic novel I mean books with a lot of illustrations that are not 'babyish', which may not be the true meaning!

Completely agree with PP about Amulet (about 8 books in the series I think) and anything in book form that usually appears in the Phoenix Comic e.g Bunny vs Monkey, Cat Kid, Looshkin etc. These are all lovely colourful books too so hold his interest. We also read Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Treehouse Story books etc although think these stretch the concept of graphic novel, but he'll read them and there are lots of pictures and silliness but at an age appropriate level so they count as far as I'm concerned!

Bunny vs Monkey's author also has a series of 3 books called Flember. My son has just started the first and us enjoying it. Same silliness but a bigger book with more words, but still some pictures.

Author of the Amulet series also has a few other books or collections that are worth looking at.

Bone is a fantastic. It is funny and epic (over 1000 pages) and I highly recommend it.
Bone

I know I'm in the minority with this, but I don't think it's necessarily a great thing to keep going down the same path with what someone already likes, instead of encouraging them to branch out. Maybe the real challenge is to find a few ordinary prose books that are so wonderful that suddenly he/she will be enthusiastically rushing to read them.

That said, how about Persepolis, just the first book, when she's a child? Maybe someone can opine on whether your child is the right age. Probably not the boxed set, though

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/160890/persepolis-by-marjane-satrapi/

I think 11 is still a bit young for Persepolis, I've not given it to DD1 (13) to read yet, although my copy has both books in it and I think the scenes in Germany are a bit too much yet. Not sure why considering all the dreadful YA dystopia she reads!

Like someone upthread my son loved Naruto, Attack on Titan, Fruits Basket. He liked non fiction and science books more

A bit different (and not a series), but might he enjoy The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage ? You can read most of it online but the book is just lovely

Terry Pratchett's Mort is (was?) available as a graphic novel. Asterix?