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

by Jeffrey Ebbeler (Author)

Reading Level: K − 1st Grade

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

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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

Copyright 2022 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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.

Review quotes

★ "A hilarious and inspiring comic book ode to creative fun without screens, just right for young readers who might need the tiniest boost to become bookworms. . . . Simple language and delightful, brightly colored artwork make this I Like to Read Comic particularly appealing to emergent readers. Jeffrey Ebbeler, prolific illustrator and author of other titles in the series (Kraken Me Up and A Giant Mess), has created a winner, no tech needed!"—Shelf Awareness, Starred Review

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.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780823450183
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Holiday House
Publication date
October 11, 2022
Series
I Like to Read Comics
BISAC categories
JUV013070 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | Siblings
JUV043000 - Juvenile Fiction | Readers | Beginner
JUV052000 - Juvenile Fiction | Monsters
JUV008110 - Juvenile Fiction | Comics & Graphic Novels | Humorous
Library of Congress categories
Brothers and sisters
Graphic novels
Cartoons and comics
Comics (Graphic works)
Ghouls and ogres
Play
Video games
Humorous comics
Junior Library Guild Gold
Standard Selection

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