Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards

06/13/2023

Alice on the Run: One Child’s Journey Through the Rwandan Civil War by Gaspard Talmasse (Life Drawn, an Imprint of Humanoids) is this year’s Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards Mosaic Award Winner!

The Mosaic Award is Pop Culture Classroom’s Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards’ celebration of stories about — and from — diverse communities, ethnicities, nationalities, faiths, and identities. Mosaic Award winners can help students see the world from different perspectives, foster a sense of belonging, and encourage empathy and respect for others.

“[Alice on the Run: One Child’s Journey Through the Rwandan Civil War is] A strong nonfiction/biography that has lots of classroom applications as well as telling an important and harrowing story.” — Sterg Botzakis, EGL Middle Grade Jury Chair

06/09/2023

This year's winners have been announced!

05/30/2023

Announcing the Finalists for the Sixth Annual Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards!

Get ready to discover your new favorite titles as we unveil the finalists for Pop Culture Classroom's sixth annual Excellence in Graphic Literature (EGL) Awards: PopCultureClassroom.org/2023/05/30/2023-egl-awards-finalists/

02/08/2023

Deadline Sunday! Graphic literature publishers and creators — submit your best titles for consideration in this year's Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards by 2/12/23: https://popcultureclassroom.org/eglawards

01/30/2023

01/09/2023

Today, we're kicking off the 2023 Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards!

The EGL Awards recognize last year’s best graphic novels, comics collections, and manga for educators’ use with their students and for all readers to enjoy.

Title submissions are now open at www.PopCultureClassroom.org/eglawards and will close Feb. 12.

07/08/2022

Congratulations to the creative team behind Why She Wrote - our first-ever Readers’ Choice Winner!

Why She Wrote: A Graphic History of the Lives, Inspiration, and Influence Behind the Pens of Classic Women Writers by Lauren Burke, Hannah Chapman & Kaley Bales (Abrams and Chronicle Books) is Pop Culture Classroom’s first-ever Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards' (EGL) Readers’ Choice Award Winner!

Why She Wrote, which received more than 28 percent of the total votes cast, explores the stories and motivations of exceptional women like Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Alice Dunbar Nelson. You can find a copy at local comic shops, libraries, and bookstores — or direct from Chronicle Books.

Want to learn more? You can see other award-winning graphic novel picks at: https://popcultureclassroom.org/programs/excellence-in-graphic-literature/2022-awards/winners/

06/24/2022

Today is the last day to vote!

Pop Culture Classroom has one last Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards winner — and it’s up to you to decide the victor! Cast your 2022 Readers’ Choice vote now at: https://bit.ly/egl-awards-vote22

06/21/2022

Repost from
•
Drumroll, please! 🥁This year’s Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards Book of the Year is Himawari House by Harmony Becker (First Second Books)!

From the publisher: “A young adult graphic novel about three foreign exchange students and the pleasures, and difficulties, of adjusting to living in Japan. Living in a new country is no walk in the park—Nao, Hyejung, and Tina can all attest to that… Though each of them has her own motivations and challenges, they all deal with language barriers, being a fish out of water, self-discovery, love, and family.”

See more 2022 EGL Awards Winners: https://bit.ly/egl-awards-winners22
.

06/21/2022

This year’s Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards Book of the Year is Himawari House by Harmony Becker (First Second Books)!

Drumroll, please! 🥁This year’s Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards Book of the Year is Himawari House by Harmony Becker (First Second Books)!

From the publisher: “A young adult graphic novel about three foreign exchange students and the pleasures, and difficulties, of adjusting to living in Japan. Living in a new country is no walk in the park—Nao, Hyejung, and Tina can all attest to that… Though each of them has her own motivations and challenges, they all deal with language barriers, being a fish out of water, self-discovery, love, and family.”

See more 2022 EGL Awards Winners: https://bit.ly/egl-awards-winners22

06/21/2022

Repost from
•
Piece by Piece: The Story of Nisrin's Hijab by Priya Huq () has been selected as the 2022 recipient of the Awards Mosaic Award celebrating stories about and from diverse communities, ethnicities, nationalities, faiths, and identities.

From the publisher:

“In this middle-grade graphic novel, Nisrin will have to rely on faith, friends, and family to help her recover after she is the target of a hate crime... Piece by Piece is an original graphic novel about growing up and choosing your own path, even if it leads you to a different place than you expected.”

See more 2022 EGL Awards Winners: https://bit.ly/egl-awards-winners22