She still wants to have fun and be silly. The other girls are changing and doing older stuff that Jaime doesn't care about. There is Grace - the follower, Maya - the BFF, and Celia - the ultra cool girl that is the most popular in school, she rules the click. We start our with Jaime and her click of friends. Jaime's pages look more like a dairy with a few pictures thrown in so it's easy to keep the perspective straight once you figure that out. Maya looks like a normal comic strip might. The story is told from 2 character's perspectives. It took me a few pages to figure this out. I feel like this story was about finding strength of character and strength of yourself. There are 2 more stories in this series and this was so good that I want to read the others. I haven't heard of Terri Libenson, but Terri is an author to watch, in my opinion. This is so great for middle grade reading. She is also the New York Times bestselling author of the middle grade series, Emmie & Friends (Balzer + Bray).īorn and raised in Kingston, PA, Terri lives with her husband and two daughters in Cleveland, OH.Ī great story for anyone going through a shift in a friendship or social status. Terri has three Pajama Diaries book collections: Deja To-Do, Having It All–And No Time To Do It, and Bat-Zilla. You can read the Pajama Diaries archives daily on. Pajama Diaries has been nominated four times for the Reuben Award for “Best Newspaper Comic Strip” by the National Cartoonists Society and won in 2016. Her daily syndicated comic strip, The Pajama Diaries, launched with King Features in 2006 and ran in hundreds of newspapers internationally until its retirement in January, 2020. Louis with a BFA in illustration and a minor in art history. Terri graduated from Washington University in St.

She was also an award-winning humorous card writer for American Greetings.

Terri Libenson (pronounced LEE-ben-son) is a New York Times bestselling children’s book author and award-winning cartoonist of the syndicated daily comic strip, The Pajama Diaries, which ran from 2006-2020.

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