Loved it! This beautiful well-written graphic novel is AMAZING. I was glad that I read this book and got to meet Cat and Maya along this fun-loving story. I'm a only child so I never got to experience having a little brother or sister, but I could imagine what it was like by reading and seeing Cat's experience. I'm actually familiar with the cystic fibrosis when I was in respiratory therapy and I got to see many of the vest treatments for the patients who had cystic fibrosis. Most students who read this might not know what genetic disease is and once they have read it they'll have a better understanding of this disease, because at the end of the graphic novel Telgemeier explains what cystic fibrosis is and gives a web address for additional information about it. I think my fourth graders may like this book because of its Spanish cultural flare, the ghost, and it's written in a graphic novel format. It's an easy read and even the most reluctant reader would find joy in it.
Telgemeier, R. (2016). Ghosts. New York, NY: Graphix an imprint of Scholastic

As a librarian, I’ve had a chance to examine each of the ten books and they all seem to be appropriate in content for children’s literature. The content of some of the books seem to deal with diversity, friendships, and human emotions that would greatly entertain children and even adults. The top ten books would be great to reread on any occasion, and they all seem to acquire a certain uniqueness that will have readers engaged the whole time. Each book has its own underline subliminal message that strikes the cord of today’s society, and it showcases the diversity of human emotion which is a relevant to our readers.      

Books like Ada Twist, Scientist, Rosie Revere, Engineer, and I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes her Mark showcases three female characters who have made significant finds or made a difference in our society. These three books encourage our young female readers that gender isn’t an issue when it comes to achieving your dreams, and you don’t have to become a scientist, engineer, or a Supreme Court Justice to accomplish your goals in life. I guess you can say these are great, “Girl Power,” books that make any reader believe in the numerous possibilities of the world. Continuing with the subliminal books we have The Day the Crayons Quit, Waiting is Not Easy!, Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site, and Mighty, Mighty Construction Site that depict a strong sense of friendship or comradery. Each book shows how the characters gather together to either start or complete a task that demonstrates how large projects become small when you have others working together. These relationships between the characters demonstrates how friendships develop and continue even after the story ends.

For those readers who may becoming parents or children who don’t know their future occupation, The Wonderful Things You Will Be, is a great picture book filled with rhythmic rhymes that express the hopes and encourages future endeavors of our young readers. Of course, there’s the beautiful, humorous side that depicts nonsense words and imaginary characters with the love of tacos. Books like Dragons Love Tacos and Book with No Pictures are hilarious additions to any library or collection due to unusual formats and characters. Then again, who doesn’t like tacos or dragons? Young readers may enjoy reading and looking at dragons who love the taste of delicious, zesty tacos. Nevertheless, dragons may be cool but coming across a book with no pictures would seem boring, but that is not the case of Book with No Pictures since the author uses absurd and nonsense words that make the book more interactive. This interactive prospect keeps readers coming back for more, because the words add comedic relief to the everyday reader.   

Lastly, these top ten books are artistic illustrated with its different medias and the use of highlighting fonts makes readers zero in on the text. Text may be important to the development of literacy, but I believe the depiction of the characters, setting, and even font styles make books more lively and interesting. I’m a consumer of art and literacy, I need to have something worthwhile to capture the interest or be unusual for me to continue reading a book. They say having a great imagination helps the reader, and I believe it enables the visualization process to take place in the mind versus seeing it take place in the book. Authors and Illustrators must know this to make a story come to life and it’s through these actions that we have great books today. Overall, the books are great to have in any collection because of their bright, colorful, encompassing illustrations really illuminates the text and fonts styles that grab the readers attention. In our society, people have different ways of absorbing information and it’s believed that with artistic illustrations, font styles and sizes that people become aware of the literary development. In short, our society needs to have authors who understand the needs of the diverse people in order to create beautiful literary works of art.