The Isobel Journal

Isobel Harrop

ISBN 10: 1630790036 ISBN 13: 9781630790035

Publisher: Switch Press, 2014

Synopsis

This quirky, narrative scrapbook gives readers a witty, honest look at what it means to be a teenager. Using mini-graphic novels, photos, sketches, and captions, The Isobel Journal offers a unique glimpse into the creative life of eighteen-year-old Isobel, just a northern girl from where nothing really happens.

About this title

About the Author:

Isobel Harrop is an eighteen-year-old girl from the North of England, squished somewhere between Manchester and Liverpool. She's just finished school, where she studied English Literature, English Language, and Media Studies. She's got her fingers crossed to go to university next year to carry on doing English Literature somewhere a bit more interesting. This is her first book that wasn't made using the school photocopier and staples. Inspired by Peanuts comics and 1960s design, Isobel loves to draw whenever she gets a chance, and almost every piece of her schoolwork is scrawled all over with drawings of imaginary people. When she isn't working or drawing, you might find her fawning over cute animals on the Internet (especially sea otters!), eating vast amounts of chocolate in all its forms, and collecting stuff that she doesn't need from vintage shops.

Review:

This creative mixed-media work by a UK teen will be devoured quickly and will inspire readers to create their own illustrated notebooks . . . For those who are ready to move past Rachel Renée Russell s Dork Diaries . --School Library Journal

The journal is immediately immersive, placing readers directly into Isobel s world. Harrop sketches her friends, imbuing each miniportrait with real personality and a rather Sendak-ian verve . . . many pages of impossibly cute animal drawings and Lauren Child like collages of sketches and photographs. --Kirkus Reviews

It felt like stepping into the mind of a teenage girl and being privy to her random stream of consciousness. The book covers everything from otters to love and family, and does so in a genuine and charming way. That the author is herself a teenage girl just adds a dash more realism to the blurbs and bits pictured within. --Examiner.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Switch Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1630790036
• ISBN 13: 9781630790035
• Binding: Diary
• Number of pages: 208