Eat, Read, and Be Mommy

I have finished another graphic novel that my 11-year-old is going to grab with greedy little hands–or greedy rapidly growing hands, in her case–and I’m rather enjoying the image of her lighting up when she sees it. Kayla Miller’s Act follows Click and then Camp as the continuing adventures of Olive. (Whose last name is “Branche”, by the way. Tee hee.) In this third installment we see Olive learn about something she wants to change at her school and go about figuring out how to make it happen. She’s still well-liked to an incredible degree, but watching her struggle with bad dreams and gripe at her younger brother left me with a better sense of Olive-the-inevitably- flawed-human-being than the previous books did. Miller’s books don’t have the same level of depth as Svetlana Chmakova’s or Jerry Craft’s, but they have their own place in the graphic novel world, and I’m okay with that. Fans of the series and graphic novel fans in general should enjoy Olive’s continuing story.