Raina Telgemeier is the #1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning creator of Smile, Sisters, and Guts, which are all graphic memoirs based on her childhood. She is also the creator of Drama and Ghosts, and is the adapter and illustrator of the first four Baby-sitters Club graphic novels. Raina lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. To learn more, visit her online at goraina.com.
Praise for Guts: #1 USA Today Bestseller#1
New York Times BestsellerNew York Times Best Comic of
2019New York Times Best Children's Book of 2019Washington
Post Best Graphic Novel of the YearForbes Best Graphic
Novel of 2019, Honorable MentionNPR Best Book/Book
ConciergeTIME Best Book of the YearAmazon Top 20 Children's
Book of 2019Today.com Best Kids' Book of 2019Chicago Public
Library's Best of the BestSchool Library Journal Best Book
of the YearSchool Library Journal Best Graphic Novel of the
Year* "The story both normalizes therapy and shows a child
developing useful coping mechanisms for anxiety in a way that will
reassure, even inspire, readers." -- Publishers Weekly,
starred review* "A must." -- School Library Journal, starred
review"A compassionate and accessible look at one girl's struggles
with anxiety." -- The Bulletin of the Center for Children's
BooksPraise for Smile: #1 New York Times BestsellerWill
Eisner Comic Industry Award WinnerBoston Globe-Horn Book Honor
Book"Irresistible, funny, and touching." -- Kirkus
Reviews"One of the most widely loved kids' graphic novels in
recent history." -- Booklist"It hits home partly because there
is nothing else out there like it." -- The New York Times Book
ReviewPraise for Sisters: #1 New York Times BestsellerWill Eisner
Comic Industry Award Winner* "A wonderfully charming tale of
family and sisters that anyone can bond with." -- Kirkus
Reviews, starred review* "Poignant and laugh-out-loud
funny." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review* "Utterly relatable
for anyone with siblings." -- School Library Journal, starred
reviewPraise for Drama: #1 New York Times
BestsellerAn ALA Stonewall Honor Book* "Telgemeier is prodigiously
talented at telling cheerful stories with realistic portrayals of
middle-school characters." -- Booklist, starred review*
"Pitch-perfect." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review* "Another
dead-on look at the confusing world of middle school." --
Publishers Weekly, starred review* "An entertaining and
enlightening read." -- School Library Journal, starred
reviewPraise for Ghosts: #1 New York Times
Bestseller* "Telgemeier has her finger on the pulse of
middle-grade readers, and this might be her best yet." --
Booklist, starred review* "Superior visual
storytelling." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review* "Telgemeier
nudges readers toward the edge of their comfort zone, but she never
leaves them alone there." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review
Praise for Guts: #1 USA Today Bestseller#1 New York Times
BestsellerNew York Times Best Comic of 2019New York Times Best
Children's Book of 2019Washington Post Best Graphic Novel of the
YearForbes Best Graphic Novel of 2019, Honorable MentionNPR Best
Book/Book ConciergeTIME Best Book of the YearAmazon Top 20
Children's Book of 2019Today.com Best Kids' Book of 2019Chicago
Public Library's Best of the BestSchool Library Journal Best Book
of the YearSchool Library Journal Best Graphic Novel of the YearA
2020 CBC Children's & Teen Choice Book Award Winner* "The story
both normalizes therapy and shows a child developing useful coping
mechanisms for anxiety in a way that will reassure, even inspire,
readers." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review* "A must." --
School Library Journal, starred review"A compassionate and
accessible look at one girl's struggles with anxiety." -- The
Bulletin of the Center for Children's BooksPraise for Smile: #1 New
York Times BestsellerWill Eisner Comic Industry Award WinnerBoston
Globe-Horn Book Honor Book"Irresistible, funny, and touching." --
Kirkus Reviews"One of the most widely loved kids' graphic novels in
recent history." -- Booklist"It hits home partly because there is
nothing else out there like it." -- The New York Times Book
ReviewPraise for Sisters: #1 New York Times BestsellerWill Eisner
Comic Industry Award Winner* "A wonderfully charming tale of family
and sisters that anyone can bond with." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred
review* "Poignant and laugh-out-loud funny." -- Publishers Weekly,
starred review* "Utterly relatable for anyone with siblings." --
School Library Journal, starred reviewPraise for Drama: #1 New York
Times BestsellerAn ALA Stonewall Honor Book* "Telgemeier is
prodigiously talented at telling cheerful stories with realistic
portrayals of middle-school characters." -- Booklist, starred
review* "Pitch-perfect." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review*
"Another dead-on look at the confusing world of middle school." --
Publishers Weekly, starred review* "An entertaining and
enlightening read." -- School Library Journal, starred reviewPraise
for Ghosts: #1 New York Times Bestseller* "Telgemeier has her
finger on the pulse of middle-grade readers, and this might be her
best yet." -- Booklist, starred review* "Superior visual
storytelling." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review* "Telgemeier
nudges readers toward the edge of their comfort zone, but she never
leaves them alone there." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review
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