Alex Archer: Graphic Novel

This past week I had read Coraline by Neil Gaiman. For our assigned readings this week we were all supposed to choose a graphic novel. I chose Coraline because I remembered seeing the movie when I was younger and really enjoying it and wanted to see how I would view it now, after a few years. As it turns out, however, I ended up purchasing the original written version of this novel online and not the graphic novel like I should have. Luckily for me there was a PDF version of this graphic novel online that I was able to access. This gave me a chance to see how this story is translated in the two different types of novels; it was very interesting to compare the two. I really enjoyed the story as a whole but it was definitely a challenge at first to move from a written novel to a graphic novel. I struggled at first getting a hang on how to read the graphic novel but after a while I developed a flow of how to go about each page. Once I got that down it was actually really fun; I enjoyed seeing all of the art and seeing how the story unfolded from picture to picture. I can see how children would really enjoy books such as these and I hope that I will be able to recommend this book to my future students.