Ant Story
A Kirkus Best Middle Grade Book of 2024
Harvey Award Best Children's Book Nominee
“A must-read for lovers of ants, ecosystems…and unlikely friendships.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“A captivating look at ants that is also a story of learning to be a true friend; great for future entomologists, graphic novel readers, and those who love buddy narratives.” — School Library Journal
Awards and Recognitions: 2024 Harvey Award Best Children's Book Nominee, Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection, Best Children's Books (Kirkus Reviews)Blueberry Award Honor List, Black-Eyed Susan Book Award nominee, Maine Student Book Award list, Texas Little Maverick Reading List
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A Kirkus Best Middle Grade Book of 2024
Harvey Award Best Children's Book Nominee
“A must-read for lovers of ants, ecosystems…and unlikely friendships.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“A captivating look at ants that is also a story of learning to be a true friend; great for future entomologists, graphic novel readers, and those who love buddy narratives.” — School Library Journal
Awards and Recognitions: 2024 Harvey Award Best Children's Book Nominee, Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection, Best Children's Books (Kirkus Reviews)Blueberry Award Honor List, Black-Eyed Susan Book Award nominee, Maine Student Book Award list, Texas Little Maverick Reading List
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The Way of the Hive
A Kirkus Best Middle Grade Book of 2022
"Sublime. Graphic novel fans, lovers of nonfiction, budding ecologists, and readers looking for their next great obsession will be buzzing around this title for years to come." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Awards and Recognitions: Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection (2021), Best Children's Books (Kirkus Reviews), Blueberry Award Honor List, Black-Eyed Susan Book Award nominee, Maine Student Book Award list, Texas Little Maverick Reading List
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A Kirkus Best Middle Grade Book of 2022
"Sublime. Graphic novel fans, lovers of nonfiction, budding ecologists, and readers looking for their next great obsession will be buzzing around this title for years to come." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Awards and Recognitions: Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection (2021), Best Children's Books (Kirkus Reviews), Blueberry Award Honor List, Black-Eyed Susan Book Award nominee, Maine Student Book Award list, Texas Little Maverick Reading List
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Santiago! Santiago Ramon y Cajal: Artist, Scientist, Troublemaker
A graphic novel retelling of the inspiring true story of polymath Santiago Ramón y Cajal, visionary pioneer of modern neuroscience, and his early dreams of becoming an artist.
"An astounding book. Leave it to Jay Hosler to infuse the biography of the Spanish neuroscientist, Santiago Ramon y Cajal, with Calvin-and-Hobbes-style energy. I loved Santiago!" — Gene Yang, creator of American Born Chinese
Awards and Recognitions: Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection, Black-Eyed Susan Book Award nominee
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A graphic novel retelling of the inspiring true story of polymath Santiago Ramón y Cajal, visionary pioneer of modern neuroscience, and his early dreams of becoming an artist.
"An astounding book. Leave it to Jay Hosler to infuse the biography of the Spanish neuroscientist, Santiago Ramon y Cajal, with Calvin-and-Hobbes-style energy. I loved Santiago!" — Gene Yang, creator of American Born Chinese
Awards and Recognitions: Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection, Black-Eyed Susan Book Award nominee
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Evolution: The Story of Life on Earth
Evolution, the most accessible graphic work on this universally studied subject, takes the reader from earth’s primordial soup to the vestigial structures, like the coccyx and the male nipple, of modern humans. Once again, the award-winning illustrations of the Cannons render the complex clear and everything cleverly comedic. And in Jay Hosler, Evolution has an award-winning biology teacher whose science comics have earned him a National Science Foundation grant and an interview on NPR’s Morning Edition.
Awards and Recognitions: 2011 Junior Library Guild selection, YALSA's 2012 "Great Graphic Novels for Teens," and included in the Texas Library Associations "Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List."
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Evolution, the most accessible graphic work on this universally studied subject, takes the reader from earth’s primordial soup to the vestigial structures, like the coccyx and the male nipple, of modern humans. Once again, the award-winning illustrations of the Cannons render the complex clear and everything cleverly comedic. And in Jay Hosler, Evolution has an award-winning biology teacher whose science comics have earned him a National Science Foundation grant and an interview on NPR’s Morning Edition.
Awards and Recognitions: 2011 Junior Library Guild selection, YALSA's 2012 "Great Graphic Novels for Teens," and included in the Texas Library Associations "Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List."
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The Sandwalk Adventures
"In The Sandwalk Adventures--now, stay with us here--Darwin engages in discussion with follicle mites that live in his left eyebrow. The mites believe Darwin is a god, one of the myths they have handed down from generation to generation. Darwin sets them straight about that and other mite fables as well, the result being lessons in natural selection." - The Chicago Tribune
Awards and Recognitions: Nominated for an Eisner Award
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"In The Sandwalk Adventures--now, stay with us here--Darwin engages in discussion with follicle mites that live in his left eyebrow. The mites believe Darwin is a god, one of the myths they have handed down from generation to generation. Darwin sets them straight about that and other mite fables as well, the result being lessons in natural selection." - The Chicago Tribune
Awards and Recognitions: Nominated for an Eisner Award
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Optical Allusions
Optical Allusions is the cure for all those clamoring for a painstakingly researched, scientifically accurate, eye-themed comic book adventure! Wrinkles the Wonder Brain has lost his bosses' eye and now he has to search all of human imagination for it. Along the way, he confronts biology head on and accidentally learns more about eyes and the evolution of vision than he thought possible. Each tale is followed by a fully illustrated, in-depth exploration of the ideas introduced in the comic story. Jay Hosler's "Optical Allusions" uses humor and adventure to weave an unforgettable story about the wonders of seeing.
Awards and Recognitions: Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
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Optical Allusions is the cure for all those clamoring for a painstakingly researched, scientifically accurate, eye-themed comic book adventure! Wrinkles the Wonder Brain has lost his bosses' eye and now he has to search all of human imagination for it. Along the way, he confronts biology head on and accidentally learns more about eyes and the evolution of vision than he thought possible. Each tale is followed by a fully illustrated, in-depth exploration of the ideas introduced in the comic story. Jay Hosler's "Optical Allusions" uses humor and adventure to weave an unforgettable story about the wonders of seeing.
Awards and Recognitions: Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
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Last of the Sandwalkers
Currently out of print
Nestled in the grass under the big palm tree by the edge of the desert there is an entire civilization--a civilization of beetles. In this bug's paradise, beetles write books, run restaurants, and even do scientific research. But not too much scientific research is allowed by the powerful elders, who guard a terrible secret about the world outside the shadow of the palm tree. Lucy is not one to quietly cooperate, however. This tiny field scientist defies the law of her safe but authoritarian home and leads a team of researchers out into the desert. Their mission is to discover something about the greater world...but what lies in wait for them is going to change everything Lucy thought she knew.
Currently out of print
Nestled in the grass under the big palm tree by the edge of the desert there is an entire civilization--a civilization of beetles. In this bug's paradise, beetles write books, run restaurants, and even do scientific research. But not too much scientific research is allowed by the powerful elders, who guard a terrible secret about the world outside the shadow of the palm tree. Lucy is not one to quietly cooperate, however. This tiny field scientist defies the law of her safe but authoritarian home and leads a team of researchers out into the desert. Their mission is to discover something about the greater world...but what lies in wait for them is going to change everything Lucy thought she knew.