Instead she’s the set designer for the drama department stage crew, and this year she’s determined to create a set worthy of Broadway on a middle-school budget.

And while she would totally try out for her middle school’s production of Moon Over Mississippi, she can’t really sing. Moving along my review checklist, the official goodreads description is the following: “Callie loves theater. Why include this? I’m biased because it’s the fandom I know the most people in, but why not make a fictional musical like Phantom of the Opera? Especially because the (as far as I can tell made up for this story?) musical at the centre of this story is set in post civil war south and the characters watch and briefly quote Gone With the Wind… Perhaps a small detail, and I know people like to pick at my mentioning of small details, but it does struck me as very odd.

I realize this is a bit of an aside, but as I had been fairly starry eyed about Telgemeier up until that point revisiting her now it overshadows everything. I’ll link in the description to two reviews that really go in depth.

The only downside has really been her fiction title Ghosts, which heavily involves Day of the Dead in a way that seemed to be pretty inappropriate. Especially when it comes to her nonfiction memoir series, I felt like Telgemeier really hit an all ages note that I could genuinely enjoy. I have previously talked about almost all of these books, and will be revisiting most of them as I have generally enjoyed all of them. Raina lives and works in San Francisco, CA.” Raina’s accolades include three Eisner Awards, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, a Stonewall Honor, and many Best-of and Notables lists.

Martin’s Baby-Sitters Club series, and has contributed short stories to many anthologies. She also adapted and illustrated four graphic novel versions of Ann M. People’s feelings are hurt at points but everything resolves at the end.Īnd since it doesn’t appear as if any of my other Raina Telgemeier reviews are currently live, I’ll dive into her official website bio: “author and illustrator of the graphic novels Smile, Drama, Sisters, Ghosts, and Guts, all #1 New York Times bestsellers. Meepelous: Hello and welcome everyone, my name is Meepelous and this is Literally Graphic!Īnd today I am re-reviewing Drama by Raina Telgemeier and published by Scholastic.Ĭontent Notes are pretty light as this is a more middle grade title, but as story about coming of age in a situation that is implicitly (not necessarily explicitly) homophobic these children sometimes are not sure what they really want and it gets a bit messy.

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