Insect Ninja

by Aaron Reynolds Narrated by Various Narrators

Overview

Tiger Moth works for truth and justice by working to solve the crime of the missing painting. Written in graphic-novel format.

Editorial Reviews

School Library Journal

Gr 2–5
These books vary greatly in their ability to embrace the tools and conventions of sequential art. Bug is the less successful of the two. Slim in scope and in substance, although certainly wryly amusing in a slightly predictable manner, it has little to indicate that it is anything other than a picture book. Having characters speak with word balloons and having multiple images on a single page does not constitute a graphic novel, and this book will do little to establish or encourage the visual skills that proponents of the format espouse. A pleasant if innocuous tale, it seems to be called a "graphic novel" for the purposes of hype only. In the second title, fourth-grader Tiger Moth, self-proclaimed ninja and superhero, has to discover who stole a valuable painting from his elementary school. Multiple puns and the trappings of multiple genres are all tossed at readers so that there is at least a goodly potential of some of them finding a receptive audience. Clever, and with a solid moral about assumptions and good intentions, the book exhibits the basic visual literacies of graphic literature.
—Benjamin RussellCopyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

A Parent's Guide to the Best Kids' Comics: Choosing Titles Your Children Will Lo

Reynolds’ and Lervold’s series about a ninja in training and his sidekick and their work fighting insect evil will appeal to Dragon Puncher fans who like their super-hero stories filled with earnest heroes, lots of action, plenty of puns and silliness, and just a touch of gross-out humor.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940172641329
Publisher:	Capstone Press
Publication date:	03/01/2013
Edition description:	Unabridged
Age Range:	8 - 11 Years

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