Mr. Wolf’s Class by Aron Mels Steinke

by Philip Rafferty | Oct 26, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's, Comics & Graphic Novels, NW Setting, Portland Authors

Mr. Wolf’s Class, the new graphic novel by Aron Nels Steinke, is a colorful and well-drawn book aimed at elementary aged students. As the book opens, Mr. Wolf enters a new classroom at Hazelwood Elementary school set to start his tenure as a 4th-grade teacher. The...

Space Battle Lunchtime Vol. 2: A Recipe for Disaster by Natalie Riess

by Brandon Sanford | Feb 28, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Comics & Graphic Novels, Portland Publishers, Young Adult

Have you ever wanted to have aliens sweep you away to compete on an intergalactic cooking show, while developing a sweet romance and dodging your rival’s plots to end your existence? In Space Battle Lunchtime Vol. 2: A Recipe for Disaster, Peony has secured an...

In-Between Days: A Memoir About Living With Cancer by Teva Harrison

by Howard Leighton | Dec 29, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Comics & Graphic Novels, Health, Fitness & Dieting

After a period of multiple months of new onset, unexplained hip and back pain, Teva Harrison discovered a painful lump in her breast. Within two weeks, at the age of thirty seven, she knew she had stage IV metastatic breast cancer. With the initiation of treatment,...

Ben Franklin’s in My Bathroom! by Candace Fleming, Illustrations by Mark Fearing

by Megan McIntyre | Dec 11, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's, Comics & Graphic Novels

Aimed at a seven to ten-year old audience, author Candace Fleming’s own three words, “history meets hijinks,” sum up this story quite well. Ben Franklin and his stinky feet (apparently) travel through time to modern day Rolling Hills, Illinois, which, according...

Brik by Adam Glass and Michael Benson, illustrated by Harwinder Singh and Gonzalo Duarte

by Roberta Kelley | Oct 2, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Comics & Graphic Novels, Fantasy, NW Publishers, Portland Publishers

Brik is the story of a young, Jewish boy – named Drew – living in modern-day Yonkers, New York. After his grandfather is killed because of anti-Semitic gang violence, Drew decides to create a Golem to protect his city and the ones he loves. The Golem is a...

Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home by Nicole J. Georges

by Julia Gaskill | Sep 7, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Comics & Graphic Novels, Nature, Outdoors & Animals, Portland Authors

Everyone remembers their first dog. No, not the first dog they ever owned, their first dog. The one they first had an instant connection with; the dog who made them feel complete and opened their heart in ways unexpected. There is, perhaps, no greater joy in the...