{"id":3167,"date":"2015-03-11T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/?p=3167"},"modified":"2015-03-10T22:56:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T02:56:22","slug":"review-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/2015\/03\/11\/review-sisters\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Sisters by Raina Telgemeier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aww, <em>Sisters <\/em>was so adorable, you guys! The companion to Raina Telgemeier\u2019s Eisner-award winning graphic novel <em>Smile<\/em> tells the story of Raina and her sister Amara, and how their relationship developed during a road trip to attend a family reunion in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3173\" src=\"https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/18225810-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of SISTERS by Raina Telgemeier published by Scholastic\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/18225810-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/18225810.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/>Raina is the older sister in the story, and when she\u2019s very young, she decides that she wants a little sister to play with. Soon enough, she gets her wish, and her parents bring home a new baby girl. After having to be convinced that the new baby really is a girl, as well as dealing with the disappointment that their names won\u2019t match (Raina was pulling for her sister to be named \u201cDana\u201d), Raina starts to adjust to life with her new little sister, which isn\u2019t exactly what she expected.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sisters <\/em>switches between past and present seamlessly, ultimately leading to both timelines coming together by the story\u2019s end. Raina and Amara are completely different people, but they\u2019re still able to have that coveted super-close sister relationship that siblings strive for. There were also several laugh-out-loud moments in the book, which I really enjoyed\u2014I\u2019m always a fan of unexpected humor showing up, especially in media that\u2019s aimed toward younger audiences, where it\u2019d be easy to brush humor off to the side.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things that I enjoyed most about <em>Sisters <\/em>was the fact that it was accessible to younger kids, but it wasn\u2019t just a quick throwaway read about a family on a road trip. It also dealt with some more serious issues, such as divorce, self-esteem, and being your own person, things that many kids are faced with at young ages. While looking for quotes about introducing kids to comics, I found this one from comic book writer and artist Paul Pope:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsarama.com\/18704-paul-pope-clears-the-air-on-controversial-dc-comics-quote-teases-future-projects.html\">\u201cWhen you write for kids, it\u2019s not that you have to bowdlerize it, dumb it down so that it\u2019s around the level of\u00a0Teletubbies\u00a0or something. But you can deal with the real issues in a way that\u2019s real for kids.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Telgemeier does a great job of doing exactly what Pope mentions above, and I think that helps <em>Sisters <\/em>to be able to resonate with more than just one age group; it can be enjoyed by readers of any age, and that\u2019s really cool.<\/p>\n<p>Although I do have a pretty wonderful younger brother, I don\u2019t have a sister, and reading <em>Sisters <\/em>really made me wish that I had an Amara to my Raina, or vice versa. If you\u2019re looking for a fun, endearing read with relatable characters to put a smile on your face, definitely check out <em>Sisters<\/em>\u2014and be sure to check for snakes underneath the front car seat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>4 out of 5 stars<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Allison Racicot<\/strong> is the Audiobook Reviewer at Girls in Capes. She\u2019s a recent graduate of Emerson College in Boston, and has a degree in Writing, Literature, and Publishing. She spends too much time listening to podcasts and getting overly attached to fictional characters.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Girls in Capes review of Raina Telgemeier&#8217;s SISTERS, a middle grade graphic novel memoir on sisterhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,785,107,784,124,737],"class_list":["post-3167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comics-graphic-novels","tag-book-reviews","tag-graphic-novels","tag-middle-grade","tag-raina-telgemeier","tag-reviews","tag-the-sisterhood-issue","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/review-sisters.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3zNPp-P5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3174,"href":"https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions\/3174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}