Here are ten graphic novels we like, from the tale of a lost teddy bear to Manga Shakespeare.

Although many of the titles here will appeal to teenagers, some are aimed at younger children and offer a different route into discovering the pleasure of reading.

  • Red Ted and the Lost Things

    By Michael Rosen

    Rosen and Stewart’s collaboration in this atmospheric graphic storybook has produced a tremendously reassuring text for the youngest readers.
    Red Ted and the Lost Things review

  • Glister: The House Hunt

    By Andi Watson

    Glister stars in a series of graphic novels for younger readers, from an established writer and artist.
    Glister review

  • Silverfin: the graphic novel

    By Charlie Higson

    Faithful to Higson’s Young Bond series, Silverfin: the graphic novel introduces us to future spy-hero James as a teenager.
    Silverfin: the graphic novel review

  • Calamity Jack

    By Dean and Shannon Hale

    This rip-roaring comic book update of Jack and the Beanstalk is a lot of fun
    Calamity Jack review

  • Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood

    By Tony Lee

    Robin Hood: a living legend. His real life and true identity may have been shrouded in mystery for over 800 years but the essence of the man has never died.

    Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood review

  • Tales From Outer Suburbia

    By Shaun Tan

    This beautifully illustrated book of short stories, explores the unexpected and fantastical situations that occur behind an average suburban façade.
    Tales from Outer Suburbia review

  • Manga Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet

    By Sonia Leong William Shakespeare

    Set in modern Tokyo, with the Capulets and Montagues recast as organized-crime rivals, and abridged enough to move quickly without sacrificing content or meaning
    Read our review of Manga Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet

  • Salem Brownstone: All Along the Watchtowers

    By John Harris Dunning

    This dark tale, told in black and white, is both unsettling and full of black humour, and at its core is the story of a son trying to do right by his father
    Read our review of Salem Brownstone

  • The Hound of the Baskervilles: Graphic Novel

    By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    Master of deduction, Sherlock Holmes and his acolyte Dr Watson get drawn to the Devon moors to investigate ghoulish happenings and macabre goings-on around Baskerville Manor.
    Hound of the Baskervilles: Graphic novel review

  • Maus

    By Art Spiegelman

    Maus addresses the horror of the Holocaust through cartoons.
    Read about Maus