Even though it's one of our most popular graphic novel series, I had never looked twice at the Sunny series. That was until I read a School Library Journal article about an attempt to ban it.

To my surprise, this book was funny and thoughtful. It depicts a little girl, Sunny, who is sent to spend her Summer with her grandfather because her older brother at home is dealing with substance abuse problems. I found it to be an age-appropriate narrative that would be valuable for young readers.

A book I'm nostalgic for was just released as a graphic novel- so I'm taking a break from my 'regularly' scheduled dragon books to talk about it.

Sometimes a family is a traumatized one-armed girl, the fox child that won't leave her alone, a cat, and the monster inhabiting your body that yearns for human flesh.

In this episode, I talk about my favorite ongoing comic series: Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda.

Sister: I see him everywhere... him being harry du bois

My little sister tasked me with finding an Irish book for her to read, so I talked her into reading Tana French's the Dublin Murder Squad with me.

In this episode I recomend her two series, Dublin Murder Squad and the Cal Hooper Trilogy, as well as her one stand-alone, The Witch Elm. These are all murder mysteries so I do my best to avoid spoilers.

If you recall, I had a weird fixation on Glacier- the toxic yuri IceWing queen who Darkstalker magically murdered with a racially targeted plague. Well now that she's gone we're left with the 7th best Queen (out of 8 total Queens, and I'll remind you one is a genocidal slave owner), Snowfall. Can she live up to her mother? And what's she going to do about all these weird bug dragons?

It's been a while, so I'm coming back with a short one. Presley has wanted to be an equestrian her entire life, but her mom's fear of horses has kept her away from them. Until now, when she tags along with her vet stepfather to a local stable. Can Presley change her mom's mind- and is her mom onto something with how dangerous horses can be?

Our heroes have tactfully retreated to the forest that eats dragons and fail to find an adult to care for their infant. We follow Sundew as she confronts her mom and tries to tone down her anger so she doesn't give her girlfriend the ick.

The one good HiveWing, Cricket, is tasked with convincing her new friends not to do a terrorism on all the other HiveWings.

Now here is some A+ horse content. Sky is a colt in Nevada in 1860 whose life is ruined by those no-good water-polluting humans. If you love a children's book with some excellent backmatter this is the book for you.

Kizzy dreams of being an Olympic showjumper despite never having been on a horse- put her luck changes when she finds a fat pony munching on donuts at the grocery store. All she has to do is keep him fed and hidden in the big city.