|summary=Who doesn't like a nice comic, eh? There's something so accessible about the lovely picture and text combos, and facts are far from dull when they come via speech bubbles, don't you think? Taking full advantage of this fact, Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner have, for some time, been creating factual books for children which pass on their insight and Important Information through the medium of comics. Now for the first time, you can collect 3 of their titles in one simple volume. Combining the previous reviewed [[The Comic Strip History of the World by Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|History of the World]] and [[The Comic Strip History of Space by Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|History of Space]] with the ''Greatest Greek Myths''
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408808242</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kevin O'Neill and Alan Moore
|title=The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969
|rating=3
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=So much for the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Of the three main protagonists available for this adventure, one and a half are female! Anyway, Bram Stoker's Mina, Woolf's Orlando and Allan Quartermain are in London at the height of the swinging 60s, amidst rumours that a new attempt at birthing an Antichrist is about to occur. Certainly, the evil they've faced the last several decades will soon get a new face...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661621</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Winshluss
|title=Pinocchio
|rating=4.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=Imagine, if you will, Disney's film of Pinocchio had been animated by a crew of artists hell-bent on sabotaging the prospect. Painterly frames of beauty would be rare in amongst gritty, grimy, shadowy images of nightmarish content, which took it upon themselves to break into black and white, or sepia. The prologue might have a character forcing his cat to join in at Russian Roulette. Geppetto would be accompanied in the leviathan, in one of the rare tuneful segments, by a penguin playing the piano. And this after the proud inventor was trying to sell Pinocchio as a prototype robotic super-weapon, just as his wife was putting Pinocchio's most distinctive feature to a most unexpected use...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861661729</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Aviv Ratzin
|title=Dreams and Everyday Life
|rating=3.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=Well, thank you, Aviv Ratzin - you've provided me with the one book I'm least capable of summarising for a review. I can't begin to pithily precis the plot, or describe the happenings in any quick, snappy way. To give the gist of the surreal, scattershot whimsicality cannot do the contents justice in any way.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955808871</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Allen Ginsberg
|title=Howl: A Graphic Novel
|rating=4.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=I first came across Howl as a short film animating one of Ginsberg's own recordings of it. If memory serves, it was a scratchy, jazzy piece, full of spiky, spunky shapes and movements, and low on colour. Now for 2011 and for Penguin Modern Classics' first ever 'graphic novel' comes a very different animation. OK, the real moving animation is only to be seen in the movie Howl, but to call this merely an illustrated companion to the film is to be very unflattering.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141195703</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lesley Fairfield
|title=Tyranny
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=As Tyranny shakes her - ''I '''TOLD''' you not to eat! You are '''TOO''' fat!'' - Anna thinks back. She used to take joy in life. She used to dream of a bright future - a career, boyfriends, children - but it all went wrong when she hit puberty. She wasn't keen on on the curves of her new, more womanly body. When she looked in the mirror, she didn't see an hourglass figure developing; she saw fat and flab. Deaf to the warnings of her parents and her boyfriend, she listened to Tyranny and entered into the desperate, downward cycle of anorexia.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331139</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=David Petersen
|title=Mouse Guard: Legends of The Guard
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=To start with, I have never heard of Mr Petersen and his Mouse Guard franchise. But I'm often up for an introduction to a fantasy cycle, and I always relish being welcomed to an author by the most esoteric, unusual, quirky and short route. My first entry to the His Dark Materials world was [[Once Upon a Time in the North by Philip Pullman|a collector's spin-off]], and I'm just as likely to start the Twilight series, if ever, with the latest brief whimsy. And for those of a similar mind-set, this collection of tales from the pens of guest writers and illustrators, serves as an odd-shaped doorway on to this particular universe.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681427</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Jonathan Stroud
|title=The Amulet of Samarkand
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=When you summon a demon the last thing you want is for you to lose power over it - for the shoe to end up on the other foot. Especially when the demon shifts shape and is currently an eight-legged spider. That's what's happened to young Nathaniel, having summoned Bartimaeus for a task of vengeance. But perhaps it's worst of all when you have to rely on the same demon's help to protect you from an even greater evil - the wicked intent of a fellow man.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552563706</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Denise Mina and Antonio Fuso
|title=A Sickness in the Family
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=In Eton Terrance there lives the Usher family, in a house above a basement flat where a gangster holds sway over a Polish "girlfriend". After a bloodbath in there, the Ushers expand downwards, clearing a cavernous hole in their home where a staircase is due to go. This is not the only crack in proceedings, however, as we soon discover while witnessing the fall of this House of Usher.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848564163</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Bryan Talbot
|title=Grandville Mon Amour
|rating=4.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=The [[Grandville by Bryan Talbot|first book]] in this series didn't end particularly well for DI LeBrock, the badger who works for Scotland Yard. At least the main problem, 'Mad Dog' Mastock, was sentenced to the guillotine. But in the prologue here he bursts out of his quandary, and once more causes problems for LeBrock - this time by slaughtering some Parisian prostitutes. Are they linked? What might their story be? And is there a darker part of the past yet to come out of some secretive hiding place, and cause even more danger and peril?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090003</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Neville Colvin and Peter O'Donnell
|title=Modesty Blaise: Sweet Caroline
|rating=3.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=Meet Modesty Blaise. You've had countless opportunities to meet her before, mind - she was daily in the London Evening Standard from 1963 to 2001, and this is the eighteenth collection of her comic strip. She's a feisty, unfettered femme fatale with a bottomless fortune and a great supply of both friends and enemies. We see these combine here in four stories, when an enterprising gang of murderous blackmailers force Modesty to become their enemy, an old friend's name is used to dupe her into letting go her criminal secrets from her past, and when a new-found friend, fresh from saving her life in a gliding accident, comes up against some hoodlums.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848566735</amazonuk>
}}
