I know that I am going to do a post comparing and contrasting Pinocchio the Vampire Slayer with Naruto, but I was having an extremely bad day yesterday when I decided I better start reading the graphic novels so I can do my blog posting. Naruto seemed a little long, so I decided to read Pinocchio first. I have to say that I found it hilarious, and a little bit disturbing. The first pages of the graphic novel basically rehashed the entire story of Pinocchio, but I don't remember it really being that way. Most of things in there were true, but I think that some students wouldn't get the humor like I do. Remembering back to when I first saw the movie Pinocchio, this graphic novel seemed just so funny and very creative.
The ending really upset me though, but I feel like there will be more books to come, and if there are I want to be reading them.After doing some research I found that there are actually more Pinocchio the Vampire Slayer graphic novels. That made me really excited.
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As for using this in my classroom, I'm not sure that I would. What relevance does it really have? Unless I was doing a unit on fairy tales and wanted to incorporate some graphic novels, or a unit on graphic novels, I don't think I would use this book. I find it entertaining to read, but don't see the educational value of it in the classroom.
Students could always take another Disney classic and make their own graphic novels. Pinocchio the Vampire Slayer could be used as a model of how they can interpret their Disney classic. It could be used in a fairy tale unit since most Disney movies were books first.
ReplyDeleteI like Bo's idea, but I do agree that it would be really hard to incorporate it in the classroom where it actually had some relevance. I thought this graphic novel was pretty funny too and I didn't really know much of that stuff from the original story. Obviously, Disney changed a ton of stuff from the original fairy tales to their movies, but for some reason, I never applied the same knowledge to Pinocchio.
ReplyDeleteI didn't really like the twist with Geppetto though. It seemed like it was too easy, that the author couldn't figure out a way to end the novel so he changed Geppetto. Having him being simply dead (and not the lead vampire) is better, I think.
I really liked this book as well. I wasn't expecting it to be funny, but it actually was. I do like Bo's idea to use it as a model. You could also have students read it as a choice project. Since it's a small book, maybe have them read two or three books in the series.
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