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by Bao Phi; illustrated by Basia Tran In this snowy yet colorful picture book, little Thuy uses her imagination to recover from a bullying incident at school, with help from her two mothers. Ages 4 to 7. Image by Asma Mobin-Uddin; illustrated by Barbara Kiwak Bilal tries to hide his Muslim identity at his new school while his sister, Ayesha, is harassed for wearing a head scarf. A book, persuades Bilal to embrace his faith publicly and gives him the courage to stand up to the school bully. Ages 6 to 9. Image by Thanhha Lai This novel in verse spends a year with 10-year-old Ha and her family a...

LA MESA —  Actor, author and activist George Takei will be part of Tuesday’s La Mesa City Council meeting to speak about the memoir he wrote that covers his childhood in U.S. prison camps for Japanese-American citizens during World War II. Takei, who portrayed Lt. Hikaru Sulu in the original Star Trek television series and later was Capt. Sulu in Star Trek: Voyager, is also the author of the 2019 nonfiction comic book “They Called Us Enemy.” The graphic novel recounts how 4-year-old Takei, along with his family in Los Angeles and thousands of other Americans of Japanese descent wer...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Ten years ago, I sat down with my then 8-year-old daughter to read a book before bedtime. The book was sort of a modern-day "boy who cried wolf" story, only it was about a little girl named Lucy who had a bad habit of telling lies. In the story, Lucy borrowed her friend Paul's bike and crashed it. Lucy lied to Paul, telling him "a bandit" jumped in her path and caused the crash. I saw the image and stopped reading. I was stunned. The image on the page was the racist stereotype of the "Mexican bandit" wearing a serape, sombrero and san...

Rooting out Racism Starts with Kid's Books Children’s books need better representation of people of color. Ten years ago, I sat down with my then 8-year-old daughter to read a book before bedtime. The book was sort of a modern-day “boy who cried wolf” story, only it was about a little girl named Lucy who had a bad habit of telling lies. In the story, Lucy borrowed her friend Paul’s bike and crashed it. Lucy lied to Paul, telling him “a bandit” jumped in her path and caused the crash. I saw the image and stopped reading. I was stunned. The image on the page was the racist stereotyp...

Author of the article: Dan Brown Publishing date: Dec 11, 2020  •  January 1, 2021  •  2 minute read  •  Article content One thing about this year that didn’t suck was the work done by comic creators, both locally and elsewhere. Here’s my annual list of the best in graphic novels. 1. Bix Try refreshing your browser. Graphic Novels: Dan Brown's top picks of 2020 Back to video For sheer ambition, I have to give it to Stratford’s Scott Chantler for this wordless biography of forgotten jazz player Leon Bix Beiderbecke, who died in 1931 after a career that was truncated by h...