Title: Monkeys and Apes Author: LeeAnn Dominick Genre: Board Book Publisher: Taffy Tales Source: Publisher Format: Board book Release Date: March 3, 2026 Rating: ★★★★★
Review:
This book shows different types of monkeys and apes. Each page has a textured piece to show how their fur or nose feels. My favourite was the Bonobo. I liked that each page had an image of the animal as a baby and as a full grown adult. Some of them looked quite different when they were grown up, such as the orangutan!
Thank you Taffy Tales for providing a copy of this book as part of a sponsored campaign!
Title: Essentials, Vol. 2 Author: Luke Arnold, Chris “Doc” Wyatt Genre: Graphic Novel, Science Fiction Publisher: The Lab Press Source: Bookinfluencers.com Format: Hardcover Release Date: May 12, 2026 Rating: ★★★★★
Goodreads Synopsis:
The mind-bending adventure of Essentials continues in volume two.
ESSENTIALS VOL. 2 continues the mind-bending journey of Harris Pax, a mathematician who predicted the end of the world but couldn’t prevent it. Now to save humanity, he must return to the underground bunker where madness began, but not without a fight. Alongside unlikely sidekicks—from walking corpses to toy robots—Harris weaves through fractured realities of creatures, angels, and monsters to restore the world he once knew. But will it be enough to defeat Snuggles once and for all?
Review:
This story continues Harris’s journey to save what’s left of humanity after the world ended. The survivors have created their own realities which they’re living in. Harris and his friend Buttons must travel through these imagined realities to save the humans inside. However, they don’t always want to be saved. This is a thought provoking graphic novel about what’s reality and the power of imagination.
Essentials, Vol. 2 is a beautifully illustrated graphic novel!
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Title: Unfairies Author: Huw Aaron Genre: Graphic Novel, Middle Grade, Fantasy Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Source: Publisher via NetGalley Format: Ebook Release Date: January 27, 2026 Rating: ★★★★★
Goodreads Synopsis:
Prepare to enter the world of the Unfairies! A hilarious new full-colour graphic novel series from breakout talent Huw Aaron, where the epic adventure of Amulet meets the super silly humour of Bunny VS Monkey and Dog Man . . . all on the scale of The Borrowers . . . Some stories will tell you fairies are sweet, kind, magical creatures. Well, those stories are WRONG. It’s time everyone knew the fairies are sneaky, violent and about as magical as slugs. Join our RECKLESS, FEARLESS and, well, CLUELESS, hero Pip on a breakneck adventure among the warring unfairy tribes of The Garden.
Expect sinister plots, dubious ancient prophecies, thrilling centipede chases, a bit of bug-bum honey . . . and a hero who doesn’t give two hoots about anything.
Review:
This is a fun graphic novel about a silly fairy who is always getting in trouble. Pip is clueless about the tasks he’s given and how his actions affect others. He just wants to have a party. There were a number of funny parts that I think young readers will love!
Unfairies is a great middle grade graphic novel!
Thank you Penguin Teen Canada for providing a copy of this book!
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Title: Lovely Recipe Author: Mira Rose Nino Genre: Graphic Novel, Young Adult, Romance Publisher: Random House Graphic Source: Publisher via NetGalley Format: Ebook Release Date: February 3, 2026 Rating: ★★★★★
Goodreads Synopsis:
In this savory and sweet sapphic YA Romance graphic novel, a klutzy high schooler strives to learn her grandma’s recipes and ends up falling for a no-nonsense classmate whose family owns a restaurant.
What does cooking have in common with falling in love? They’re both matters of chemistry!
It’s Sofia’s last year in high school. All her friends are getting ready to go to far away colleges, but she doesn’t know if that path is right for her. What Sofia does understand is that, ever since her grandma died, her mom has been distant. But maybe, if Sofia can learn how to make one of grandma’s most cherished recipes, she and her mom’s relationship can go back to the way it used to be. The only problem with that idea? Sofia is terrible at cooking.
Enter Anna Marie, Sofia’s super cute classmate who’s everything Sofia isn’t– driven, disciplined, and a gifted chef. Despite getting on each other’s nerves, Anna Marie starts teaching Sofia how to cook in exchange for her help around Anna Marie’s family’s restaurant. And soon enough, they discover that the sparks between them are more than just stovetop flames.
But can love blossom when Sofia’s and Anna Marie’s lives are changing so much? Or will the impending pressures that come with graduation break them apart?
Review:
This is such a cute graphic novel. Sofia wants to connect with her Italian heritage and learn how to cook her grandmother’s recipes. However, she can’t cook. She’s also dealing with her final year of high school and her friends moving on to different places. The romance in this story was sweet and slow. Sofia and Anna Marie were opposites in personality, but they had great chemistry.
Lovely Recipe is a cute YA graphic novel!
Thank you Penguin Teen Canada for providing a copy of this book.
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Title: Move It or Bruise It (Blood City Rollers #2) Author: V.P. Anderson, Tatiana Hill Genre: Graphic Novel, Middle Grade, Paranormal Publisher: Labyrinth Road Source: Publisher via NetGalley Format: Ebook Release Date: January 20, 2026 Rating: ★★★★
Goodreads Synopsis:
BCRD lives on!
Mina is ready to roll…but her new team is nowhere to be found. After a summer skating around town looking in every dark corner for the Blood City Rollers, Mina and her other human teammate Swan are finally reunited with their squad at an abandoned asylum. It’s old, creepy, and has a basement full of zombies…perfect.
But if the asylum is going to be the new freaky forever home for the Vamps, they’ll have to fight for it. A new team of outcast monsters are also looking for a new home, and the only solution to a turf war this bloodthirsty is a Sudden Death Scrimmage.
Mina just wants to help her team win, but she can’t help but feel like she still has to prove she belongs. And when the competition with Swan heats up, she’ll have to learn that being a teammate isn’t about being the best player…it’s about being the best friend.
Review:
This sequel is about a 13-year-old girl who left her ice skating hobby and started roller skating with a vampire team. I love paranormal stories so this one was so fun. I know I would have loved it when I was a kid too. It ended on a bit of a cliffhanger so I look forward to the next book in the series!
Move It or Bruise It is a fun middle grade graphic novel!
Thank you Penguin Teen Canada for providing a copy of this book!
Other books in the series:
Blood City Rollers
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Title: Creatures and Corridors Author: Bill Sienkiewicz, Andrea Mutti Genre: Graphic Novel, Fantasy Publisher: The Lab Press Source: Bookinfluencers.com Format: Hardcover Release Date: November 11, 2025 Rating: ★★★★★
Synopsis:
In the summer of 1992, a forbidden role-playing game called Creatures & Corridors takes a dark turn for five high-school sophomores.
It’s the summer of 1992, and five high school sophomores play a rare role-playing game that was banned for being “too Satanic” — Creatures & Corridors. As the kids play the mysterious fantasy game, it unleashes a curse that warps reality around them: orcs storm the living room, killing their parents. The front yard turns into a moat filled with tentacled horrors. And their basement “game cave” transforms into a literal dungeon, laden with bloodthirsty monsters and terrifying death traps. Now, the kids are forced to play Creatures & Corridors for their very lives, as a devilish Gamemaster judges their every move.
Review:
This graphic novel is about a role playing game called Creatures and Corridors, similar to Dungeons and Dragons. The teens who were playing end up opening up a portal to another world within the game. This story reminded me of Stranger Things, but with a much darker spin. If you’re missing Stranger Things, you should check out this graphic novel!
Creatures and Corridors is a great fantasy graphic novel!
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Content warnings: death, death of parents
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Title: Morgana and Oz, Vol. 3 Author: Miyuli Genre: Graphic Novel, Fantasy Publisher: Wattpad Books Source: Publisher Format: Paperback Release Date: September 30, 2025 Rating: ★★★★★
Goodreads Synopsis:
In this stunning debut series by Miyuli, perfect for fans of fantasy and romance, a struggling witch crosses paths with an angsty vampire, setting the stage for either love or war.
Morgana Winterberry belongs to a long line of witches, while Oz belongs to the rival vampire clan. After lifting a magical curse on the vampires, Morgana makes an uneasy truce with them, very much against her family’s warnings.
Morgana and Oz plan to work together to investigate who cursed the vampires in the first place, and who summoned the ghouls that are stalking the forest. Much to Morgana’s worry, signs point to someone in her family using her powerful ancestor Neil Winterberry’s grimoire.
As Morgana tries to understand her stronger but more volatile magic, and learn more about her mysterious great-great-grandfather, she starts hearing a chilling and all too familiar voice in her head.
It will take a witch and a vampire, growing closer every day, to get to the bottom of things.
This volume collects episodes 40 to 58 of the hit fantasy WEBTOON series with over 76 million reads, Morgana and Oz
Review:
This third book in the Morgana and Oz series was so fun! I love the dynamic between Morgana, a witch, and Oz, a vampire. They’re from rival groups but they have realized that they can actually help each other. This is a fun series with beautiful illustrations!
Morgana and Oz, Vol. 3 is a great graphic novel!
Thank you Wattpad Books for sending me a copy of this book!
Title: Hunger Author: Nihaarika Negi, Joe Bocaroda, José Villarrubia Genre: Graphic Novel, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction Publisher: The Lab Press Source: Bookinfluencers.com Format: Hardcover Release Date: October 28, 2025 Rating: ★★★★
Goodreads Synopsis:
In 1896 Bombay under British rule, famine-stricken mutant Izna embraces her monstrous nature to seek revenge against oppressive forces.
In 1896 Bombay, under British rule, a concentration camp holds IZNA, a plague-infected and famine-stricken being. Mutated through medical experiments, she, along with others, becomes a mutant. British officers invite famine photographer William Wallace Hooper to document the mutants, unaware he’s controlled by a shape-shifting vampire called Pisach. The Pisach infects prey with insatiable hunger, while Hooper bonds with Izna amidst rulers’ games with famine slaves.
Unbeknownst, Izna descends from women embracing monsters. Discovering Hooper’s role in her mother’s death, she wishes to become a monster herself. Transformed into a half-human, half-mutant, half-beast, she embraces her hunger, consuming oppressors and drenching her land in blood. This infinite hunger mirrors trauma’s generational and cultural impact, forging an inseparable link between oppressed and oppressor. The graphic novel blends True Blood, Kill Bill, and Spiral Into Horror, delving into hunger’s exploration of trauma’s pervasive influence.
Review:
This is a beautifully illustrated graphic novel. It’s about experiments that were performed in a concentration camp in India in 1896. The experiments turned many subjects into mutants who were further experimented on. The illustrations were at times gruesome, but that suited the horrific subject matter. This would be a great graphic novel for a book club or other literary discussions.
Hunger is a powerful graphic novel!
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Title: Super Science, Vol. 1 Author: N. Alessandro K., Perker Genre: Graphic Novel, Science Fiction Publisher: The Lab Press Source: Bookinfluencers.com Format: Hardcover Release Date: August 12, 2025 Rating: ★★★★★
Goodreads Synopsis:
In a world where imagination becomes reality, a global phenomenon grants ordinary people extraordinary scientific powers.
Super Science is a sci-fi/comedy about a world where the limits of human imagination have become real. For five days the entire sky over twelve spots across the globe turn amethyst purple. The inexplicable result was in each location, professional engineers and scientists, as well as tinkers, amateur inventors, and high school science teachers were able to create scientific and engineering breakthroughs in ways far surpassing the world’s top scientific institutions. Our story starts three years later in Los Angeles, where a breed of actual superheroes and super villains are emerging.
Dealing with this new phenomenon is LAPD’s new “Mad Scientist Division.” Our two main characters are the no-nonsense Sergeant Esmerelda Villanueva and her idealistic young partner, Officer Jack Mantle. Other main characters are manipulative industrialist Burt Montague, and his bold lab assistant Felicia Bari; perpetually unlucky Karen Katz, a former biology teacher who has turned herself into a human-cat hybrid; Esmerelda’s son Gabe, who might be the smartest teenager on the planet; and finally, nefarious super villain Dr. Cornelius Otherland, and his nemesis, bumbling superhero Gas Giant.
This mind-bending graphic novel from THE LAB ships in a gold-foil stamped cloth slipcase.
Review:
In this graphic novel, scientists have discovered how to give themselves scientific super powers. Many of them use their powers for evil, rather than good. However, it’s difficult for law enforcement to figure out how to keep the peace. I liked the vibrant illustrations and the colorful cast of characters!
Super Science, Vol. 1 is a great start to a graphic novel series!
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Content warnings: death, violence
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Every relationship has its bumps. For this couple, it’s interstellar.
From the creator of Snailogy and Rescheduled comes a sexy supernatural story about being out on your own, finding your dream apartment and discovering that your new place is haunted by a handsome spectral stranger from another dimension. Sure, he can’t see you and you can’t touch him, but who said every relationship starts out perfectly?
Freaking Romance is for fans of Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me , This One Summer and Bloom .
This volume collects episodes 1–21 of the supernatural hit WEBTOON comic.
Review:
This is such a fun and original supernatural graphic novel! Zylith moved into a haunted apartment, but it turns out the “ghost” is actually pop star Zelan. They both live in the same apartment but in different worlds, so they can’t physically touch each other without making the other vanish. They took turns playing hard to get by pretending they couldn’t see the other, which was funny. I’m excited to read the rest of the series!
Freaking Romance is a fun graphic novel!
Content warnings: depression, abuse, sick parent
Other books in the series:
Freaking Romance, Vol. 2
Freaking Romance, Vol. 3
Have you read Freaking Romance, Vol. 1? What did you think of it?
