Building critical literacy and empathy with graphic novels

The possibilities of visual narratives for text ladders and literacy work

Invitations to literacy

Disrupting story types anc composition expectations with comics

Antibias and addressing bullying in visual works

Stories of self in autobiographical and biographical graphic novels

Gender representation in graphic novels

Diverse abilities presented in comics

Black joy, Black lives matter, and antiracist pedagogy in graphic novels

Adding words, exploring language: stories of (im)migration and removal in graphic novels

What's in a word/world? Taking a translanguistic stance with bilingual/multilingual comics

Comics featuring indigenous peoples/first nation stories

Explorations of mental health and grief in graphic novels

Texts of freedom/texts of great power and great responsibility

Exploring pathways of storytelling: verse novels, adaptations and more

Conclusion: a graphic novel critical/pedagogic creed.