TOON Books Social Media Giveaway
by Julia PhillipsThis month, we hit 1500 fans on Facebook and 1000 followers on Twitter! To celebrate our success, we're devoting this week on our social pages to a limited-time giveaway. Tweet...
View ArticleCaldecott and Newbery Medal Winners 2013: Congratulations!
by Amy Lee Congratulations to Katherine Applegate and Jon Klassen, respectively the winners of this year's Newbery and Caldecott Medals as awarded by the American Library Association! Applegate's book,...
View ArticleLast Day For Our Social Media Giveaway!
Hello TOON friends! In case you'd forgotten, today is the LAST DAY for our social media giveaway. To celebrate our 1,000 followers on Twitter and our 1,500 fans on Facebook, we're giving one free TOON...
View ArticleSocial Media Giveaway Results!!
by Amy Lee The suspense is over! We’ve entered the names of everyone who’s sent us the name of the TOON book they’d like to read into a random generator to come up with our three winners: Vicki...
View ArticleTOON's Biggest Giveaway Ever!
by Alexa Rosselli and Amy Lee TOON Books is about to have its BIGGEST GIVEAWAY EVER!We are very excited for the launch of our affordable new line of $4.99 paperback TOON Books, and we want to...
View ArticleTOON Paperbacks: A Look Inside Our Level 1 Readers
By Amy Lee TOON's new paperbacks are now in stores (where you can photograph them to participate in our giveaway), and we are so, so very excited about them. The new paperbacks feature a redesigned...
View ArticleTOON Paperbacks: A Look Inside Our Level 2 Readers
by Amy Lee We've taken you on a tour of our new Level 1 paperbacks, so today, let's move on to our Level 2 paperbacks (and again, don't forget about our special giveaway celebrating their release!)...
View ArticleComics in the Classroom: If kids love it, how can it be good for them?
by Julia Phillips — Illustrations by Barry Blitt "Comics are more than just illustrated books, but rather make use of a multi-modal language that blends words, pictures, facial expressions,...
View ArticleCuter Than Cute Kittens: Kids with Books!
by Alexa Rosselli - images courtesy of Tanya Turek Not only are comics good for young readers, but kids really love them! At TOON Books, we know that our books are a great way to teach reluctant...
View Article"If Frederic Wertham was still alive, he'd die of a heart attack." —art...
by Alexa Rosselli As Julia Phillips reviewed here in a blog post last week, there has been a lot of press lately about the educational benefits of comics. We are glad to see this happen — with the...
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