with authors Jerry Craft, Sylvie Kantorovitz and Thomas Flintham
Nikki Gamble had a great time discussing graphic novels with three different creators. The discussion ranged from discussing comics’ influence on their childhood reading to how childhood has influenced their present work.
00:00 Introduction
02:37 How important were graphic novels/comics when you were a child?
23:00 Thomas Flintham talks about Press Start
35:00 Sylvie Kantorovits talks about Sylvie
48:30 Jerry Craft talks about the New Kid trilogy
1:06:16 Parting thoughts
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This post was written by Nikki Gamble
Nikki GambleFormerly a teacher (secondary and primary) and university lecturer, with over 40 years’ experience, Nikki is Director of Just Imagine. She has worked extensively in schools across the UK and internationally. She is the author of Exploring Children’s Literature now in its fourth edition (Sage, 2019) and co-author of Guiding Readers, winner of the UKLA Academic Book Award (UCL, 2016). Nikki runs workshops for teachers, librarians, students and researchers on different aspects of children's literature, an online summer school and hosts literary events. Contact nikki@justimagine.co.uk