This past year, a comic book has swept the Theodore Geisel Awards. For those of you who don't know who Theodore Geisel is, you may know him by his other name, Dr. Seuss. From the Geisel Award website - "The Geisel Award is given annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers published in English in the United States during the preceding year." The winner for 2010 is "Benny and Penny and the Big No No!", written by Geoffrey Hayes and published by TOON Books.
One of the groups that is really embracing comic books is the librarian. Graphic novels are really becoming more and more in the spotlight and I know that the focus of most recent librarian conference was solely on comic books and graphic novels. This kind of thing has really elevated comics into the public mindset and we are now seeing more comics for young and early readers, such as the winner above. It's is awesome to see a comic book receive such a prestigious award and I look forward to checking it out.
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