These comics and graphic novels offer a different route into discovering the pleasure of reading.
Favourite graphic novels for younger readers
These comics and graphic novels offer a different route into discovering the pleasure of reading.
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The Savage
Walker BooksBlue’s father has died suddenly, and finding that the school’s counselling increases his anguish, instead he turns to writing a story. -
The Spider Moon
David Fickling BooksKate Brown's gorgeous illustrations and colouring plus the otherworldly setting take the reader on an adventure into another world -
The Hound of the Baskervilles: Graphic Novel
Self Made HeroMaster of deduction, Sherlock Holmes and his acolyte Dr Watson get drawn to the Devon moors to investigate ghoulish happenings and macabre goings-on around Baskerville Manor... -
Monkey Nuts: The Diamond Egg of Wonders
David Fickling BooksThis graphic novel follows a crazy, crime-busting team known as 'Monkey Nuts'. Sid, Rivet and Chief Tuft must work together to battle monsters and oddballs. -
Calamity Jack
Bloomsbury Children's BooksThis graphic novel is full of fun action set pieces, comedic turns and well-drawn out characters and is a much-needed updating of the classic fairy tale. -
Silverfin: the graphic novel
PuffinThis graphic version of the first Young Bond novel is a must for James Bond fanatics. Silverfin: the graphic novel introduces us to future spy-hero James as a teenager, and reveals the foundations of his future. We see Bond's arrival... -
Stormbreaker: The Graphic Novel
Walker BooksThe graphic novel adaptation of this well-written and action-packed story of a teenage spy works really well -
Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood
Walker BooksThis is a captivating retelling of the Robin Hood story with punchy dialogue and suitably dark and atmospheric images. -
Vern and Lettuce
David Fickling BooksA collection of humorous comic-strip stories that follow best friends Lettuce the rabbit and Vern the sheep as they meet a range of equally likeable characters. -
Big Nate - The Boy with the Biggest Head in the World
HarperCollins Children's BooksThis hilarious take on American school life is sure to make readers laugh, cringe and turn the next page. Based on a comic strip by Lincoln Peirce, the inspiration behind Jeff Kinney, this is sure to appeal to any fans... -
Red Ted and the Lost Things
Walker BooksRed Ted is lost on a train journey, and in the Lost Property office determines to find his owner... -
The Little Prince
Walker BooksA pilot marooned in the desert is visited by a little prince, and they become friends. This is a lovely book for children and adults alike to keep and revisit time and time again. -
The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures
ScholasticThis book inspired the recent Martin Scorsese film, Hugo. Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, twelve-year-old Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks... -
The Amulet of Samarkand: A Bartimaeus Graphic Novel
Random House Children's BooksThe graphic novel adaptation of the first volume in the best-selling Bartimaeus sequence makes the series more accessible to readers without taking away any of the wit and magic -
Tales From Outer Suburbia
TemplarThese often thought-provoking stories look at the reactions ordinary people have to the unusual situations they find themselves in and feature a host of different illustrative styles ranging from collage to painterly Edward Hopper-esque scenes. -
Glister: The House Hunt
Walker BooksGlister, around whom strange things happen, lives with her Dad in a magical, ghost-inhabited, crumbling, stately home.
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