One of the biggest things we did last year was to unveil our Core Lists of graphic novels and manga, which were a long time in the making. In fact, these lists were one of the first goals Carol had for GNR when we launched the site. As the Core Lists were culled with librarians and educators in mind, we wanted to be sure that they have all the information needed to make them useful. With this update I am happy to share that in addition to adding ISBNs to all the featured titles, we also have created downloadable PDF files. We feel that this will make them more useful for our readers --- and to those in the education and library marketplace who need it to easily place orders.

We hope everyone's holidays were great, and filled with some of winter's most anticipated books, especially given our recent snowy and frigidly cold days! We here in New York have been dealing with more snow this week. Here we go again! My son has missed three days of school, and I confess that when the phone rings at 5AM, I wonder WHO in our town is getting up that early for school? Around our house, a 6:30 call would be just fine! Spring isn't that far off, though --- only 52 more days to go (but who's counting?).