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Page by Paige
by
Laura Lee Gulledge (Goodreads Author)
Paige Turner has just moved to New York with her family, and she's having some trouble adjusting to the big city. In the pages of her sketchbook, she tries to make sense of her new life, including trying out her secret identity: artist. As she makes friends and starts to explore the city, she slowly brings her secret identity out into the open, a process that is equal part...more
Paperback, 192 pages
Published
May 1st 2011
by Harry N. Abrams
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There are many times that I've caught myself thinking "I'm not an actual writer. How dare I share my work with others? How dare I even think that my work is good enough? What if my work is horrible? ... etc." I think this novel is great for any aspiring artist, author or songwriter. It comes to show many of us that we can't grow with all the self doubt and pessimism.
I only picked up Page by Paige because I've always wanted to read a graphic novel and I'm glad I did. It's simple, easy to follow...more
I only picked up Page by Paige because I've always wanted to read a graphic novel and I'm glad I did. It's simple, easy to follow...more
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I haven't read as many graphic novels as I would like to, but this is absolutely one of my favorites I've ever read, and I don't think that will chance no matter how many I read! I'm so thankful that I saw Paul Hankins talking about it on twitter because when I saw in the booth at NCTE, I snapped it up right away. This is the kind of graphic novel I know I'll be able to hook my students with. It has quite a bit of girl appeal as Paige is a...more
I haven't read as many graphic novels as I would like to, but this is absolutely one of my favorites I've ever read, and I don't think that will chance no matter how many I read! I'm so thankful that I saw Paul Hankins talking about it on twitter because when I saw in the booth at NCTE, I snapped it up right away. This is the kind of graphic novel I know I'll be able to hook my students with. It has quite a bit of girl appeal as Paige is a...more
Paige Turner's parents are writers. As her name would suggest. Trying to grow into that name, to become the artist they seem to have destined her to be, has been hard this year as she adjusts to their new life in the big city of New York. She misses her best friend Diana, her artist grandmother, her quiet town in Virginia, and most of all she misses drawing. A brand new sketchbook, helps her refocus all those seemingly lost loves.
A beautiful story emerges as Paige begins to sketch out her emotio...more
A beautiful story emerges as Paige begins to sketch out her emotio...more
This is one of the best graphic novels I have read since Blankets by Craig Thompson (which is my standard for judging all graphic novels because it is amazing and blows me away everytime I read it).
Paige is a teenager and has just moved to New York from Virginia with her parents who both work as writers. She's awkward and struggles to find herself through her artwork she keeps in a sketchbook. Before long, she makes some awesome friends and bravely shares her artwork with the world via the Inter...more
Paige is a teenager and has just moved to New York from Virginia with her parents who both work as writers. She's awkward and struggles to find herself through her artwork she keeps in a sketchbook. Before long, she makes some awesome friends and bravely shares her artwork with the world via the Inter...more
Sixteen year old Paige has just moved to New York City with her parents and feels very shy and alone, in this beautifully drawn graphic novel. She buys a sketchbook to draw about her feelings, as she tries to make new friends and make her way around the city. She tries to follow her grandmother's 9 rules that she came up with as she taught herself to be a painter, things like "Draw a few pages every week," and "Draw what you know; if you feel it or see it, draw it." "Listen to what's going on in...more
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October 28, 2012
"Page by Paige by Laura Lee Gulledge- 214 pages"
Graphic novel
Although graphic novels are not quite at the top of my list of books to read, although after reading this one, I will definitely make an effort to change that. "Page by Paige," is an incredibly well written and illustrated novel. The story is what really captivated me, the way the actual book, and the story are connected. Paige Turner, who had just moved to New York, was having trouble fi...more
Independent Reading
October 28, 2012
"Page by Paige by Laura Lee Gulledge- 214 pages"
Graphic novel
Although graphic novels are not quite at the top of my list of books to read, although after reading this one, I will definitely make an effort to change that. "Page by Paige," is an incredibly well written and illustrated novel. The story is what really captivated me, the way the actual book, and the story are connected. Paige Turner, who had just moved to New York, was having trouble fi...more
I was surprised how much I liked this book. It is definitely a graphic novel for teens. It's even safe enough for tweens to read.
It's about an introverted young artist who moved from Virginia to NYC. She makes friends and get a boyfriend. The framing device for each chapter is artistic advice from her grandmother, which she follows each month. It works well with the twin themes of artistic and personal growth.
It resonated with me because of artistic growth and how some introverts are self-focus...more
It's about an introverted young artist who moved from Virginia to NYC. She makes friends and get a boyfriend. The framing device for each chapter is artistic advice from her grandmother, which she follows each month. It works well with the twin themes of artistic and personal growth.
It resonated with me because of artistic growth and how some introverts are self-focus...more
Pleasant surprise! This was highly recommended by two of my coworkers, but the way they described it made me think it would be too "girly" for my taste (and by "girly" here i mean stereotypically heteromantic and cutesy in a way meant for non-Christinas).
I wish I'd read this book as a teenster. It wouldn't have been life-changing, but it would have been so validating to see another anxious introvert describe how she interprets life. Her struggles are really mundane (she has a solid home life, s...more
I wish I'd read this book as a teenster. It wouldn't have been life-changing, but it would have been so validating to see another anxious introvert describe how she interprets life. Her struggles are really mundane (she has a solid home life, s...more
Great graphic novel for high school--middle school but there is one inappropriate word/reference to a vagina.
Fun art ideas: Art telephone, Easter eggs, wallpaper trees.
Paige Turner has just moved to New York with her family, and she's having some trouble adjusting to the big city. In the pages of her sketchbook, she tries to make sense of her new life, including trying out her secret identity: artist. As she makes friends and starts to explore the city, she slowly brings her secret identity out...more
Fun art ideas: Art telephone, Easter eggs, wallpaper trees.
Paige Turner has just moved to New York with her family, and she's having some trouble adjusting to the big city. In the pages of her sketchbook, she tries to make sense of her new life, including trying out her secret identity: artist. As she makes friends and starts to explore the city, she slowly brings her secret identity out...more
Paige Turner (I know, right? Her parents are writers...) has recently moved to NYC with her family, and is having trouble adjusting to a new school. Fitting in is difficult and connecting with her parents is just as hard. She lives in her own head most of the time, but is having trouble sorting through and understanding all of her thoughts. Paige starts to come into her own, and open up to others, when she explores her artistic side, following some rules on art (and possibly life) that her grand...more
Short and cute, this follows teen Paige as she deals with moving from her life (and friends, and trees) in Virginia to an apartment in New York.
Absent is the gritty teen and high school drama that's often found in this sort of book--and it's a relief. Paige and friends might have differences and issues of their own, but they're decent people and it's a gentle story. Paige is a shy introvert, an artist who uses her sketchbook to release her feelings.
And that's where the book shines: I'm sure I'm...more
Absent is the gritty teen and high school drama that's often found in this sort of book--and it's a relief. Paige and friends might have differences and issues of their own, but they're decent people and it's a gentle story. Paige is a shy introvert, an artist who uses her sketchbook to release her feelings.
And that's where the book shines: I'm sure I'm...more
Wow! This has to be one of the best depictions I’ve come across of the interior mental life of a shy, introverted, creative, insecure, reflective mind. There’s a little bit of adjustment to the style for the first few pages, because they’re meditative as much as narrative and warm up to telling the story just as you warm up to reading it; it takes Paige a while to find her voice. What’s there immediately is her ability to use her pictures and art to expose her thought process, how she interprets...more
About the Book: Paige has just moved to New York City and she's feeling a bit lost. She's trying to make sense of her life. Is she an artist? Is she outgoing? How can she make new friends and find herself in such a book city? Paige decides to take her Grandmother's advice and following her drawing rules, she's going to keep a sketchbook. The sketchbook becomes Paige's way of expressing herself and finding who she is. She opens up to new friends, embraces her art, and learns how to be Paige.
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Paige has just moved to New York from Virginia. She's shy and quiet, and lives too much in her own head. Paige wants to be an artist, but doesn't consider herself one. She knows if she wants to be an artist, she has to do something about it, so she buys herself a sketchbook and follows her grandma's rules of how to be an artist. As she begins to draw, she begins to understand herself better and starts to become the Paige she knows she really is.
I liked this a lot, although it reminded me some o...more
I liked this a lot, although it reminded me some o...more
About the book: Page by Paige by Laura Lee Gulledge is a graphic novel. Cost about $10.00 is the U.S. I really can't say how many pages as numbers are not included in the art work... This is book 75 of my 100 book Challenge
What's it about: Paige Turner is forced to leave the comforts of her small town when she moves from Virginia to New York after her father gets a new job offer. She is feeling rather homesick, frustrated, alone and lost....not only lost in a new big city but lost inside trying...more
What's it about: Paige Turner is forced to leave the comforts of her small town when she moves from Virginia to New York after her father gets a new job offer. She is feeling rather homesick, frustrated, alone and lost....not only lost in a new big city but lost inside trying...more
I love this book, oh did I love this book. Page by Paige isn't the typical graphic novel in format. It's a little more free-flowing as there are many pages without panels. The author does a brilliant job of combining the artwork with the main character's emotions as the main character, Paige, is an artist and the GN reads like a combination of her diary and sketchbook.
Paige's parents have uprooted her from her life in Charlottesville, VA and moved to Brooklyn. Forced to start over with new frie...more
Paige's parents have uprooted her from her life in Charlottesville, VA and moved to Brooklyn. Forced to start over with new frie...more
I was extremely impressed with Laura Lee Gulledge's coming of age story Page by Paige, which masterfully shows how Paige uses art to come out of her shell and express things she cannot express in words. When Paige moves to New York City, she's nervous and overwhelmed and uses her sketchbook to both sort out her feelings and let her new friends and her parents know more about who she is. Gulledge makes Paige likeable but, even better, she makes her real, and a character who I think most teenagers...more
Before you read this review, I just want you to know what my biases are. I went to art school and hold a BFA in illustration with minors in art history and creative writing (the path Gulledge's character Paige might take, though she most definitely would be an SVA or New School kid). I want you to know this because I've observed more than my fair share of angsty art school stuff, personal comics, and feelings of isolation due to artistic difference. These sorts of things either get snuffed out i...more
Eh... I don't know. I liked it well enough I suppose. Some of the drawings were magnificent. But Graphic Novels still creep me out for some reason. Plus, I don't like my YA to have the word Orgy in them. I think that's uncomfortable. I'm just glad this was shelved under YA, because at BEA I met Ms. Gulledge (who was super nice by the way) and the discussion made it sound like it was for Middle Grade. I don't think it is quite that appropriate. And maybe I am just old fashioned. And maybe I do wa...more
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I picked this up by accident at the library while browsing the last time, as I was feeling like some new graphic novels and it looked interesting. This journal style graphic novel is about Paige, a shy 16 yr old girl from Charlottesville, Virginia who moves with her writer parents to New York City. It is a huge change for her, not only because she moved in the middle of her junior year of high school but because she doesn't know anyone and it feeling rather lonely. She decides to reinvent hersel...more
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In this debut novel by Laura Lee Gulledge, we are introduced to the quiet redhead, Paige Turner, a sort of secret artist, who has just moved from her forever home in Virginia to New York.
We are taken on a fully illustrated tour of Paige's brain, from the quiet beginnings as we slowly witness her turn into a sociable and interesting teenager. We get to see the two different sides of her, the 2D version of her in her world of art, to her 3-dimensional side, while she uni...more
Peiji Niyoru Peji
In this debut novel by Laura Lee Gulledge, we are introduced to the quiet redhead, Paige Turner, a sort of secret artist, who has just moved from her forever home in Virginia to New York.
We are taken on a fully illustrated tour of Paige's brain, from the quiet beginnings as we slowly witness her turn into a sociable and interesting teenager. We get to see the two different sides of her, the 2D version of her in her world of art, to her 3-dimensional side, while she uni...more
I personally don't like graphic novels b/c I forget to look at the pictures but I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
I think it's a GREAT book for tween/teen girls because they all can relate to Paige in some way. It talks about insecurities that most girls face and it shows a positive way of working thru the insecurities.
I saw this as a self-help book for girls in an unassuming package. This would be a good book for mothers to give their daughters and b/c it is a graphic novel; it isn't intimidating...more
I think it's a GREAT book for tween/teen girls because they all can relate to Paige in some way. It talks about insecurities that most girls face and it shows a positive way of working thru the insecurities.
I saw this as a self-help book for girls in an unassuming package. This would be a good book for mothers to give their daughters and b/c it is a graphic novel; it isn't intimidating...more
Paige has just moved to New York from Virginia. She's shy and quiet, and lives too much in her own head. Paige wants to be an artist, but doesn't consider herself one. She knows if she wants to be an artist, she has to do something about it, so she buys herself a sketchbook and follows her grandma's rules of how to be an artist. As she begins to draw, she begins to understand herself better and starts to become the Paige she knows she really is.
I liked this a lot, although it reminded me some o...more
I liked this a lot, although it reminded me some o...more
It's speaking, but I don't like what it's saying.
A lot of people will tell you that a good book has to say something relevant. That a book is pointless unless it discusses a social, religious, philosophical, or political issue and looks straight into the heart of humanity. They will then point you to the classics, at which point the correct answer is to pick up "The Three Musketeers" or "Treasure Island" and ask them if it is a good book.
The point that I'm trying to make is that a book doesn't h...more
A lot of people will tell you that a good book has to say something relevant. That a book is pointless unless it discusses a social, religious, philosophical, or political issue and looks straight into the heart of humanity. They will then point you to the classics, at which point the correct answer is to pick up "The Three Musketeers" or "Treasure Island" and ask them if it is a good book.
The point that I'm trying to make is that a book doesn't h...more
When Paige's family relocated to New York City, she's faced with having to start over: new school, new people, new city... She knows she's not the extrovert the world seems to want, but who is she exactly? Is she actually the person she wants to be? And if not, can she change the stuff she doesn't like? As Paige fills up her first sketchbook and finds the courage to connect with new friends and be herself, Paige will start becoming exactly who she wants to be.
This is a fabulous book for all tho...more
This is a fabulous book for all tho...more
I recommend Page by Paige by Laura Lee Gulledge to middle schoolers and up because the main character is a teenager. This is one of those graphic novels that share such beautiful drawings that can make people feel really inspired, especially if the reader is someone interested in drawing or other forms of art.
The book is about a 16 year old girl named Paige Turner (her parents are writers ;) who moves from Virginia to new York, which is, as you can probably imagine, a big change. She is leavin...more
The book is about a 16 year old girl named Paige Turner (her parents are writers ;) who moves from Virginia to new York, which is, as you can probably imagine, a big change. She is leavin...more
Page by Paige is the fictitious sketchbook of a young teen that has moved from West Virginia to New York City. Laura Lee Gulledge has done an excellent job of capturing the insecurities of every 15 year old girl. Paige is timid and unsure of her artistic abilities, which is shown in clever, self-doubting, self-portraits and sketches. Paige has a difficult and stained relationship with her mother, which she also takes to the sketchbook to work out. Being the new girl in school, and obviously not...more
Ok, two is totally too harsh. But reading other people's reviews, I get the sense more and more that this is a graphic novel written for non-graphic-novel readers, and furthermore, written to too many YA specs that give it that flat after-school-special-with-just-enough-edge flavor. New York! It's so edgy and full of inspiration! Parents! Sometimes they get mad at you and wear proverbial "masks"! Let's put art in trees! Oh! Those crazy artistic teens!
Something about the basic message of this --...more
Something about the basic message of this --...more
To be honest, I'd never heard of this book or even this cartoonist. I actually stumbled across Page by Paige while picking up some stuff from the library. After reading it, I'm glad I did, and I'm hoping to find more by Gulledge. Though the tale is written from a teenage female perspective, I still find myself (30-something male) able to relate to her trials and tribulations. I look at her interactions with others and the way her mind works and see a lot of myself there (minus the artistic talen...more
Paige Turner has just moved to New York City. Her low self-esteem has always made it difficult for her to make friends and express herself, however starting over in a new city is making things even more difficult for Paige. She begins her sketchbook and makes herself a list of rules to help her come out of her shell and amazingly enough they really seem to work.
This graphic novel does a phenomenal job of expressing the inner turmoil of being a teenager. The artwork that is drawn by Paige shows e...more
This graphic novel does a phenomenal job of expressing the inner turmoil of being a teenager. The artwork that is drawn by Paige shows e...more
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“I suppose all moms have an idea who they hope their daughters will be. Like a connect-the-dots picture where you think you know what shape it will become. But then it's the daughter who draws the lines, and she might connect the dots you didn't intend, making a whole different picture. So I've gotta trust the dots she's given me, and she's gotta trust me to draw the picture myself.”
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