Emmie's was text and graphics, with the illustrations muted, more stick figurey, while Katie's were bold, vivacious and dramatic multi-panel comics to show how wonderful her life was. I enjoyed the way the text was interspersed with the comics, and I enjoyed how the two girls' lives were drawn. Yet their lives intersect in the strangest of ways on Emmie's worst day.Ĭolor me very intrigued by this middle grade graphic novel. And how things that seem like the end of the world can sometimes lead to new beginnings.Įmmie is the Invisible Girl, and Katie is one of the most popular girls in school. One thing I really appreciate is how well Libenson captures how wildly stressful and painful difficult social situations can seem when you're that age, and how much courage it can take just to get through an afternoon. there's a bit of a 'big reveal' at the end when the truth about the alternating stories is addressed (I won't say more as I don't want to go spoilering.) It wasn't all that interesting or satisfying conceptually or narratively speaking. and the whole alternating business was a bit distracting. I thought one was Emmie's journal and one comics Emmie was writing about someone else in her class. I just didn't entirely relate to her as a character, and the structure of the book was a bit distracting.īasically, there are two narratives that alternate through the book. It's not that I can't relate to Emmie's experiences in middle school. then I started to care a little bit more about Emmie and her predicament. The opening was kind of awful and I almost put it down before I was half-way through. So, Emmie learns a bit about people maybe not being quite as scary as she thought? And this is a book about pushing past some fears and connecting with other kids? Sometimes when you're so worried about how other people do or don't see you, you forget to really try to see them. before the troubling event, kids seem to Emmie like one-dimensional terrifying creatures who can be defined by just one word: popular, brainy, stinky (according to Emmie), nerdy, cute, etc. I suppose she learns that kids in middle school aren't always what they seem. And she's forced to go through a very rough day at school and face some of her fears. She has one close friend who goes to the same school, and when they're not together, she's pretty much drawing a lot and trying to blend in with the scenery.Īnd then something happens that brings her quite a bit of unwanted attention. She goes through her days at school doing her best to avoid attention.
She is also the New York Times bestselling author of the middle grade series, Emmie & Friends (Balzer + Bray).īorn and raised in Kingston, PA, Terri lives with her husband and two daughters in Cleveland, OH.Įmmie is a quiet kid. Terri has three Pajama Diaries book collections: Deja To-Do, Having It All–And No Time To Do It, and Bat-Zilla. You can read the Pajama Diaries archives daily on. Pajama Diaries has been nominated four times for the Reuben Award for “Best Newspaper Comic Strip” by the National Cartoonists Society and won in 2016. Her daily syndicated comic strip, The Pajama Diaries, launched with King Features in 2006 and ran in hundreds of newspapers internationally until its retirement in January, 2020.
Louis with a BFA in illustration and a minor in art history. Terri graduated from Washington University in St.
She was also an award-winning humorous card writer for American Greetings. Terri Libenson (pronounced LEE-ben-son) is a New York Times bestselling children’s book author and award-winning cartoonist of the syndicated daily comic strip, The Pajama Diaries, which ran from 2006-2020.
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