I'm Ogre It
(I Like to Read Comics)

Author

Jeffrey Ebbeler

Publication Date

October 11, 2022

Genre / Grade Band

Fiction / K − 1^st

Paperback

Hardcover

Description

An ogre turns out to be the best neighbor ever in this punny easy reader comic.

A family gets a surprise when a fun-loving ogre moves in next door and helps a sister bond with her screen-obsessed brother. Ollie is so absorbed in the video game Smash Tower that he doesn't notice that his sister and an ogre named Tim have emptied his room and constructed an obstacle course that mirrors the levels of the game in the yard. But a tell-tale red string leads him to the challenges. This comic is perfect for reintroducing kids to the fun of in-person play.

Comics-lovers can now share the fun with their kids, students, siblings, and younger friends who are learning to read!

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Publication date

October 11, 2022

Classification

Fiction

Page Count

ISBN-13

9780823450183

Lexile Measure

Guided Reading Level

Publisher

Holiday House

Series

I Like to Read Comics

BISAC categories

Library of Congress categories

Brothers and sisters
Graphic novels
Cartoons and comics
Comics (Graphic works)
Ghouls and ogres
Play
Video games
Humorous comics

Kirkus

It's D&D: delightful and dear.

School Library Journal

This graphic novel for beginning readers offers a fun and visually compelling argument for resisting the siren song of screen time. While rustling through a pile of toys thrown out by her video-game obsessed brother, Ollie, Izzie finds herself face to face with an immense ogre named Tim, who has taken up residence in an unnoticed, possibly imaginary cave in her backyard. Izzie takes this opportunity to enlist his help in setting up a video game-like quest throughout her house, incorporating Ollie's cast-offs and casting Izzie as the big boss. Ebbeler's skill with detailed settings and unusual angles makes the siblings' home a perfect place for flights of fancy—packing new angles and undiscovered corners of their home into each image—and the book feels much denser than its brisk 40 pages. Izzie and Ollie are brown-skinned. VERDICT A fast-paced, creativity-sparking, richly illustrated adventure, this early reader graphic novel is an inspiring read.—Emilia Packard

Hornbook

Ebbeler uses appropriately minimal text, but his art understands that new readers can follow plots and concepts that are much more sophisticated than what they can read, and each panel is full of details worth poring over.

Jeffrey Ebbeler

Jeffrey Ebbeler has worked as an art director, book designer, and illustrator. He is a graduate of the Art Academy of Cincinnati. After college he worked for a puppet theater sculpting marionettes and performing. He has since become a full-time freelance illustrator and has illustrated over 40 children's books, including One Is a Feast for Mouse; Cinco de Mouse O!; Haunted House, Haunted Mouse; and Snow Day for Mouse, all by Judy Cox. He has also written and illustrated A Giant Mess and Kraken Me Up, which was named a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection.

Junior Library Guild Gold

Standard Selection

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