Furthermore, as Squish is an avid Super Amoeba comic book fan, each issue contains a parallel Super Amoeba comic book story, adding greater depth, humor, and insight. In each book, Squish and his friends deal with real-life conflicts (handled with insight and compassion), issues of right and wrong, and the power and value of friendship. Squish’s volumes are packed with puns, alliteration, wordplay, humor, and hyperbole. These endearing pond-dwelling microorganisms deal with issues of friendship, bullies, overcoming fears, and learning that doing the right thing is one of life’s greatest challenges - and rewards - whether you’re a superhero like Super Amoeba, or a plain kid like Squish. We highlight Squish this month because it’s a wonderful series full of fun, humor, and real-life problems facing middle school “microorganism kids.” And while each volume is under 100 pages and geared for kids ages 7–12, they will be enjoyed by older readers as well with their compelling themes and sharp, sophisticated humor. While Squish is a beloved series in its own right, he was first brought to life and introduced in Babymouse #14: Mad Scientist (Babymouse is another award-winning series by Jennifer and Matthew Holm about a spunky young mouse). In the first four books, they face challenges in school, summer camp, soccer games, and much more. He faces all sorts of challenges with his friends Pod, a nerdy, mooching amoeba who’s always working on some lay-brained science scheme to help him tame his world, and Peggy, a clueless, huge-hearted, super-sweet, happy-go-lucky loving paramecium. Squish is a comic book-loving, Twinkie-eating, blubbery, super-swell amoeba “kid” who wrestles with good and evil in life around him and learns about life’s responsibilities. In this column, we take a closer look at Squish,written by Jennifer and Matthew Holm, (Random House), providing teaching suggestions for the first four books in the series. So begins the adventures of the amoeba Squish and his friends, Pod and Peggy (an amoeba and a paramecium) in their microscopic world of Small Pond. Jennifer and Matthew Holm, Squish (Random House), pp.7–9 Our planet hosts a rich diversity of life…from lush rain forests to dry deserts.īut underneath this world lies another one. In this column, we examine graphic novels, including those that have been targeted by censors, and provide teaching and discussion suggestions for the use of such books in classrooms. Welcome to Using Graphic Novels in Education, an ongoing feature from CBLDF that is designed to allay confusion around the content of graphic novels and to help parents and teachers raise readers. Graphic Novels: Suggestions for Librarians.Working With Libraries! A Handbook For Comics Creators.Know Your Rights: Student Rights Fact Sheet.Raising a Reader! How Comics & Graphic Novels Can Help Your Kids Love To Read!.Adding Graphic Novels to Your Library or Classroom Collection.Kirkpatrick, NY State Court of Appeals (1973) Obscenity Case Files: Joseph Burstyn, Inc.Des Moines Independent Community School District Obscenity Case Files: United States v.Pacifica Foundation (George Carlin’s Seven Dirty Words) ![]() ![]() Obscenity Case Files: People of New York v.Kids will soak up the humor, tidbits of science instruction, and adventure. "A perfect mix of writing that is simple enough for early readers but still remarkably snarky, clever, and entertaining. If ever a new series deserved to go viral, this one does." "An energetic, good-hearted escapade, one that young readers will enjoy." Here's what people are saying about everyone's favorite amoeba! Yowza! You can draw comics, too! Look in the back to find out how to draw one of the Squish characters! Also includes instructions for a sensational science experiment you can do at home! Shazam! Squish knows winning isn't everything, but it's something right? Can Squish turn the losing streak around when he becomes team captain? Will Pod figure out how to harness the power of lightning? And how can amoebas play soccer when they don't have any feet? Find out in the electrifyingly funny page-turner Squish #4: Captain Disaster-saving the world, one cell at a time! It's soccer season! But the Waterfleas (Hey, it could be worse-Okay, maybe it couldn't.) are getting pummelled game after game. It's SQUISH-a hilarious, action packed graphic novel series from the award-winning creators of Babymouse! Filled with superheroes, comics within comics, and gross-out science, Squish is perfect for fans of Dog Man, Captain Underpants, and My Weird School. Now an animated show streaming on HBO Max!
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