by Laura Lee Gulledge
Can't wait to share this with my daughter I love the art, characters, and story.Causes The Feels. Adorable innocent dating.Love and respect how Jules's private issue was handled. Beware the use of "exotic" to describe people. Thankfully only once. Touching mother-daughter moments. The metaphor about...
I wasn't expecting this book to be as thoughtful as it is. I love how Paige expresses her feelings in her sketchbook, and how the visuals work with the words. The story is simple enough, in that new-girl-in-school subgenre. Paige and her friends are likeable and have real personality. Paige wanting ...
My sister brought home Page by Paige and mentioned something to me about reading it. I don’t usually read graphic novels or comics, but I gave this one a try because 1) it’s realistic fiction and 2) according to the sticker on the front cover it was a “Teen’s Top Ten” choice in my county’s library s...
3.5
Beautiful, inventive art and some powerful description of social anxiety and insecurity, but exceedingly heavy-hanndy. By about a third of the way through my interest in and patience with the book had trickled away.
Ooooh, REALLY good GN about finding the courage to be an artist - and also about being a teenager, not getting your mom, moving to a new place, and making new friends.
Full disclosure: ARC copy, received as a Bookmooch trade.Loved the art work, loved the story - my inner teen could totally identify with Paige's plight; this one is on the Keepers To Buy list, in hardcover.
Sorta disappointed that I haven’t take a look at this sooner. (It’s been sitting on my shelf for a while now.) It’s a quick enough read to breeze through, and it’s fairly enjoyable.I like that it’s a very relatable premise. Having an artistic main character write/draw/rhyme their story has been done...
Perfectly capturing the angst of a 16 year old artistic girl who relocates from Virginia to NYC, Page by Paige echoes the sketchbook that Paige creates to chronicle the transition of her identity. Many interesting elements here, but most profoundly expressed are the insecurities of a creative, intro...