Adventures in Cartooning
How to Turn Your Doodles Into Comics
First Second · Print & ebook · March 31, 2009
In this action-packed cartooning adventure, kids will have as much fun making comics as reading them!
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- Who it’s for
- A playful adventure makes learning how comics work feel like part of the fun.
- Themes
- Making comics, Drawing and writing skills, Creative problem-solving
- Pacing
- Fast
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In this action-packed cartooning adventure, kids will have as much fun making comics as reading them! Once upon a time . . . a princess tried to make a comic. And with the help of a magical cartooning elf, she learned how – well enough to draw her way out of an encounter with a dangerous dragon, near-death by drowning, and into her very own adventure!
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Like the princess, young readers will discover that they already have the drawing and writing skills it takes to make a comic – they just need a little know-how. And Adventures in Cartooning supplies just that.
Drawn Into Comics
A playful adventure makes learning how comics work feel like part of the fun.
Come here for
- A princess, a cartooning elf, and a dragon in a story about making comics
- A welcoming nudge to use the drawing and writing skills you already have
Expect
- An action-packed cartooning adventure
- Know-how for turning doodles into comics
Where it sits
| Cartooning for Kids | 91% |
|---|---|
| Drawing for Kids | 49% |
| Comics & Graphic Nonfiction | 34% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Activity Books
- Cartooning for Kids
- Kids' Comics & Graphic Novels
- Authors
- James Sturm, Andrew Arnold, Alexis Frederick-Frost
- Publisher
- First Second
- Published
- March 31, 2009
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Making comics · Drawing and writing skills · Creative problem-solving
- Reading lane
- Activity Books