![]() ![]() ![]() However, Tamaki says, "I don't remember ever reading an adventure- or action-oriented series with girls." Tamaki sought out relatable girl characters in books she read as a kid. One of the draws of the comics series is its focus on unquestionably resilient, curious, and intrepid female-identifying characters, which have not always been easy to find in children's and YA literature. The comics take place at "Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's Camp for Hardcore Lady Types" and star the five distinctive campers of Roanoke cabin: April, Jo, Mal, Molly, and Ripley. The Lumberjanes graphic novel series-first published by Boom Box! in 2014-was developed by Grace Ellis, Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters, and illustrator Brooklyn Allen, who is now illustrating the novels. It's perfection." The first book in the new series, Lumberjanes: Unicorn Power!, comes out in October. ![]() Plus you've got your mermaids and your magical stuff in there. "I love the Lumberjanes world: it's fun, and there are crafts, trees, animals, and friends having adventures together. When Abrams asked Mariko Tamaki to write a four-book middle grade fiction spinoff of the original Lumberjanes comics series, she was excited: "I was very familiar with the comics, if by ‘very familiar' we mean ‘vaguely obsessed,' " the author says. ![]()
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