New Releases by Ben Caldwell

An exciting approach to the classics: vibrant, appealing graphic novels that bring beloved stories to a new generation of kids. With its lively, fun narrative and irrepressible hero, Tom Sawyer is tailor-made for the graphic novel form. Just imagine such classic moments as Tom and Becky in the bat-filled cave or the hilarious fence-painting incident captured in bright and atmospheric images. The stunning art endows each character with personality and each scene with movement and energy. Every frame is filled with such breathtaking detail—from the buildings to the carefully created backgrounds—that readers will feel as if they could step right into Twain’s wonderful world.

An exciting approach to the classics: vibrant, appealing graphic novels that bring beloved stories to a new generation of kids. Shipwrecks, angry gods, magical lands, beautiful nymphs, and siren songs: this vivid retelling of Homer’s legendary Greek epic follows Odysseus on his long, arduous journey home from Ithaca after the fall of Troy. Done in comic-book style, it features the highest-energy kid-grabbing details and plot twists, all dramatized in brilliant, action-packed images. It’s the perfect way to introduce kids and fans of graphic novels to one of literature’s great works.

"E wha tuaka puninga o te taonga." Ko Ranginui kei runga, Ko Papatuanuku kei raro, Tihei mauriora, ki te Whaiao, ki te Ao Marama". "Fourfold axis of the instrument." "Reaching a crucial point of understanding, Sky and Earth, being and light."

Reformed crook Maria Dare has assembled a team of misfits to crack the world''s weirdest cases! They have brains…they have guts…but they don''t have a clue! And in their first adventure, the Dare Detectives are finished! Rent''s due and their license is suspended, but Dare''s going-out-of-business festivities are interrupted by Madame Bleu — whose abominable snowmen pets are on a chef-stealing, radio-robbing, snowpea-swiping crime wave! Dare races against the clock to hunt down Madame Bleu with the help of corrupt cops and Chinatown''s old crime boss. But can these bunglers really prevent the most audacious — and inexplicably convoluted — crime of the century?

Reformed crook Maria Dare has assembled a team of misfits to crack the world''s weirdest cases! They have brains, they have guts, but they don''t have a clue! And in their first adventure, the Dare Detectives are finished! Rent''s due and their license is suspended, but Dare''s going-out-of-business festivities are interrupted by Madame Bleu, whose abominable snowmen pets are on a chef-stealing, radio-robbing, snowpea-swiping crime wave!

On the night-world of Nivek, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker must first overcome the limitations of fighting in the dark before they can take on the dreaded Shadowmen! Meanwhile, Jedi Masters Mace Windu and Saesee Tiin discover that push can come to shove when using the Force to fight battledroids. And, fresh from leading an underwater assault against Separatist forces on the water planet of Mon Calamari, Jedi Master Kit Fisto and his remaining clone troops reach the surface to find a new threat awaiting them!

A graphic novel version of the adventures of Tom and his friends growing up in a small Missouri town on the banks of the Mississippi River in the nineteenth century.

When reformed crook Maria Dare assembles a team of misfits to solve the world''s strangest cases, the team creates more problems than solutions because they just can''t seem to find a clue.

Chaque volume de cette série de quatre albums, directement inspirés par le dessin animé Clone Wars, est composé de récits complets mettant en scène les principaux personnages de la trilogie Star Wars Episodes I à III. Obi-Wan Kenobi et Anakin Skywalker. Le maître Jedi et son jeune Padawan sont opposés aux créatures de Nivek, un monde perpétuellement plongé dans les ténèbres. L''usage de la Force parviendra-t-il à les sortir de ce mauvais pas ? Mace Windu et Saesee Tiin. Deux piliers du conseil de l''ordre Jedi doivent faire face à une nouvelle menace droïde. Kit Fisto. Le maître Jedi mène une action contre une base secrète des Séparatistes située sous la mer.

Offers step-by-step instructions for drawing faces, anatomy, creating emotion, and drawing figures in action settings.

Maria Dare is a reformed crook, she and her team of misfits fight the weidest cases that no one else will touch.