Immigrants and Comics is an interdisciplinary, themed anthology that focuses on how comics have played a crucial role in representing, constructing, and reifying the immigrant subject and the immigrant experience in popular global culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Nhora Lucia Serrano and a diverse group of contributors examine immigrant experience as they navigate new socio-political milieux in cartoons, comics, and graphic novels across cultures and time periods. They interrogate how immigration is portrayed in comics and how the 'immigrant' was an indispensable and vital trope to the development of the comics medium in the twentieth century. At the heart of the book's interdisciplinary nexus is a critical framework steeped in the ideas of remembrance and commemoration, what Pierre Nora calls lieux de memoire. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in Visual Studies, Comparative Literature, English, Ethnic Studies, Francophone Studies, American Studies, Hispanic Studies, art history, and museum studies.

A warm, witty tale about family and celebrating difference, from the award-winning author of the Penny Dreadful series and Joe All Alone. Perfect for children learning to read. Everything about the Jones family is extraordinary - even their dog Digger, who can dance the can-can. Well, nearly everything ... George Jones is utterly ordinary, and he hates it. But now the school talent contest is looming. Will George be able to discover exactly what it is that makes him extraordinary before he has to go up on stage? The Reading Ladder series helps children to enjoy learning to read. It features well-loved authors, classic characters and favourite topics, so that children will find something to excite and engage them in every title they pick up. It's the first step towards a lasting love of reading. Level 2 Reading Ladder titles are perfect for readers who are growing in confidence and are beginning to enjoy longer stories. Clear type Up to 8 lines per page Bright, appealing pictures for added interest A variety of sentence structures A wider range of vocabulary Strong themes and characters to discuss All Reading Ladder titles are developed with a leading literacy consultant, making them perfect for use in schools and for parents keen to support their children's reading. Book band: Turquoise

In this unique tale that combines dark humor with hair-raising horror, a boy hears a disconcerting sound one night and fears there's a monster in his bedroom. When he investigates the noise, what he discovers isn't a monster, but a skeleton who's cold and whose bones shiver and clack. When skeletons are cold, however, they can only be warmed by one kind of coat: human skin. The thieving skeleton steals the boy's flesh to warm himself, and now the boy has become the skeleton, cold and looking for a "coat" of his own with which to warm himself. "En este cuento unico que combina un humor negro con el horror espeluznante, un nino escucha un sonido desconcertante una noche y teme que hay un monstruo en su cuarto. Cuando investiga el sonido, lo que descubre no es un monstruo, sino un esqueleto con frio cuyos huesos tiriten y repiquetean. El frio de los esqueletos, sin embargo, solo se quita con un tipo de abrigo: la piel humana. Este esqueleto ladron roba la piel del nino para calentarse, y ahora es el nino el que se ha convertido en esqueleto, pasando frio y buscando un "abrigo" propio con el cual arroparse."