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Raina Telgemeiers

Smile

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MILE IS A REAL-LIFE GRAPHIC NOVEL composed of 224 pages by Raina Telgemeier. It was first published by GRAPHIX on January1st, 2010. The book stretches a graphical story of the author's journey from sixth grade to high school. The book is created on Raina's online comic, Smile. In her book, she talks about her dental drama which is disturbing but amusing, her involvements with untruthful friends, folks who were pejorative, younger siblings who are infuriating, and drama with boys. Her story begins when one night while returning from her Girls scout meeting, she trips and fall. The accident results in losing her two front teeth. After that a never ending visits to the orthodontist begins. What at first seems to be a simple, short procedure to replace the teeth turns into a perpetual nightmare, as Raina goes through every treatment possible to reorganize her mouth. Besides this are the day to day dreads of junior high Riana narrates the progressively painful torments that friends bring up to break one another, as when an unforeseen display of the equipment for cleaning teeth that Raina preserves in her backpack makes her so called friend Karin to sing Dog breath! in high tone. Yet, during all the problems, Raina sometimes discovers herself astonished by the good things in life, too. Something transpires when you smile at someone and they smile back. In the end, she realizes her situation and comes to terms with it. Smile does look like David Smalls graphic memoir stiches but unlike his middle-school book, Smile is more up to date and funny. Probably because of the merciless surgeries recommended by the careless parents, Rianas story still creates a sense of fear of the sharp metal shaped object pointed at you, that we all have faced at least once in our lives. The book provides a story to ease readers passing through childhood and adulthood. It portrays a happy ending of a worst case scenario. Smile comprehends that occasionally the terrors inside your mouth can not be as terrifying as asking a boy to dance. Comparison indeed alike, however, conditions are both survivable.

Rainas Smile is jam-packed with righteousness because she faced her teenage memories that were awkward and embarrassing. Raina dispatched over 120 pages of Smile on the Internet as her daily comic. It was then later picked up by Scholastic, who wished to publish it in the form of a book. In Smile, the kids, adults, siblings who are a bit younger and people who are in the dental business are represented in a brilliant fashion describing vividly the authors world. The colored cartoon images of Raina as well as her storytelling capabilities forms an inspirational story that not only encourages any teenager or mid-schooler going through this phase, but it also brings optimism to them while having orthodontic treatment. Rianas drawing style evolved along with Baby sitter club because when she was working on graphic novel Smile she was also involved in Baby sitter club. Her earlier art drawing of Smile matched with Baby Sitter Club while the later drawing co-relate with her latest Baby Sitter Club series. Riana was intimidated by a long graphic novel, but as she wrote Smile in series, she was able to transform her web comic in the form of a book that was more than 200 pages long. At the start Rainas editors told her that they will be making some changes here and there, but all they asked her was to add some more characters in the beginning of her story to make it look more interesting. Raina didnt write Smile specifically for children. In her book, she just tells her life story but in some way it turns out to be related to a lot of people, youngsters and grownups, possibly because of the incidents being common to all of us. In her book, Riana express that her friends in school teased her rather savagely which affected her to portraya bit into her cartoons until she was unable to tolerate the bulling anymore particularly when she got embarrassed by them in public. Because of her braces, and other funny looking headgears, she was mocked at a lot by her friends. Due to her repeated dentist visits she was able to recognize the true faces behind masked people. When she was in high school she was quite happy with her teeth fixed until they started to weaken and become twisted. She became insecure again and even she felt ashamed while talking to people because she assumed that the people she chatted to would look at her teeth. But no one really paid attention to her teeth any more, only she was noticing her teeth now. Riana accepts that if she hadnt had that accident in her childhood she wouldnt had to face all those years of torture and embarrassing moments at school; she would have had normal school time. And that she could have avoided un-countable trips to the dentist. But then she couldnt have witnessed the joy of having real friends who supported her till the very end.

Interesting fact:

K IRKUS SAY IN THEIR REVIEW THAT SMILE was not only hilarious, but it was also moving with such a solid lettering by the author and the characters were quite easy-to-read with their emotions. Kirkus documented Smile as one of the finest factual books for young people for the year 2010.

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AINA TELGEMEIER IS AN AMERICAN writer, cartoonist, author and illustrator of the autobiographic novels Smile, Drama, and Sisters. Smile , which is a full-color graphic novel, was published in February 2010 by GRAPHIX imprint of Scholastic Press. Smile , along with her follow up novel Sisters and a fiction book Drama, have been#1 New York Times bestsellers. Her graphic novel, Drama , is the winner of Stonewall Book Award Honor, 2013 (American Library Association). This award distinguishes authors who discourse bi-sexual, homosexual and transgender-related matters in their workings. On May 10, 2015 Rainas novels took all four top posts for paperback graphic books on the New York Times Best Seller List. She also reformed and sketched four graphic novel versions of Baby Sitters Club series with Ann M. Martin and has underwritten short stories to many collections. Rainas tributes include two Will Eisner Awards, a Stonewall Honor, and Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor and is in many eminent lists. Raina Telgemeier was raised in San Francisco, but moved to New York City when she was 22 years old. There she attended the School of Visual Arts as a Graphic and Cartooning student. In 2002, she got her BFA and started working as a freelance artist. She is currently living in Astoria, Queens and is married to Dave Roman who is a cartoonist as well. Rainas neat style with her funny illustrations makes Smile the exciting read an appealing one, as well. Her storytelling is crisp and clear, and her drawings comprises the humanistic gesticulations of a pure cartoonist. Smile finishes with her achieving that captivating smile at the end, and with a present photograph of her returning the smile to the person who reads her books. In her book Smile Riana has told the readers her real life story. When Raina was in sixth grade, she was racing in a parking lot with her friends while returning from a Girl Scouts meeting, when she stumbled and broke a tooth on the ground and the other was found by the dentist in her gums. It was the beginning of a succession of dental misfortunes and surgical treatments that hit at the time of her early puberty, serving to contour her adolescence. Riana had been thinking about the idea for Smile for a really long time. It was a story that she had been telling people all the time in person, and especially to all of her dentists. After she moved away from her home and her familiar family dentist, she found that each time she went into somebodys office, she had to explain that this was the story that had happened to her. And that the dentist needs to understand that before he started working on her. The more she voiced the story, the more she thought that its time she wrote it down, because every time she met new people she would have to explain to them over and over again. Rainas biggest influence is Lynn Johnston. Raina tells in an interview that she started reading For Better or For Worse when she was only nine. She went out and purchased as many books as were available on the market at that time. She dug her nose in those books like a freak, reading them again and again, tracing, copying, and learning how to draw them. She became Lynns biggest fan while growing up, because every day there was a nice comic to read. Every year a new collection of Lynn Johnstons was published and she was a regular reader. Mostly because of this, her drawing style evolved to be very alike Lynns, and up till she finished college, people naturally thought that she had been paying services to her. Over years, she has developed a style of her own, which uniquely shines through her work.