Carroll, E. (2014). Through the woods. New York, NY: Margaret McElderry Books.

This graphic novel is a collection of 3 separate tales.  They are really creepy around the bonfire type stories.  One tells the story of 3 girls whose father has left to “go into town.”  But in the storm and snow, it doesn’t take long to realize that he is not going to return.  After the 1^st night when a man appears at the door, leaving no footprints the oldest sister disappears.  Two nights later the same thing happens to her baby sister.  Believing that she will be next, she takes out on her own where in a “house” she is reunited with her sisters.  I believe they were all dead.

With a lexile of 550 this text’s audience is grades 14 – 17.  I loved this graphic.  The artwork was a creepy as the stories.  This could be used for inference, as well as teaching story or plot, a

lso the idea of irony.  We expect the character to be “killed” by a “mysterious man in a wide brimmed hat with a big white smile.”  But I don’t think so.  I think they surrendered to the elements and were reunited “on the other side.”