Everything from the cutsie newsboys and the precious soldier girls to Blue’s friends and all the little birds everywhere *squee* !!! Oh it was so lovely.

Text-to-Self: One of the big themes of the novel is flight. In the setting that the novel takes place, human flight is thought to be impossible. One of the main characters who befriends the protagonist invents a way to achieve flight. This reminded me of my own pursuits as a child of becoming a pilot. I was very passionate about the idea of flying and I felt that passion shared by the character in the novel who refused to give up even though people thought flight was impossible. About 35% of global newsprint usage in 2006 was in Asia, with approximately 26% being in North America and about 25% in Western Europe. Latin America and Eastern Europe each represented about 5% of world demand in 2006, according to PPPC, with smaller shares going to Oceania and Africa. Ru Xu's artwork is phenomenal, conveying tremendous energy and character. I loved the look of the buildings, vehicles and clothes, as I got a mixture of early 1900s, Victorian and 1940s from the designs.Newsprint is favored by publishers and printers as it is relatively low cost (compared with paper grades used for glossy magazines and sales brochures), strong (to run through modern high-speed web printing presses) and can accept four-color printing at qualities that meet the needs of typical newspapers. Among the biggest factors depressing demand for newsprint in North America have been the decline in newspaper readership among many sectors of the population—particularly young adults—along with increasing competition for advertising business from the Internet and other media. According to the Newspaper Association of America, a United States newspaper trade group, average U.S. daily circulation in 2006 on a typical weekday was 52.3 million (53.2 million on Sundays), compared with 62.5 million in 1986 (58.9 million on Sundays) and 57.0 million in 1996 (60.8 million on Sundays). According to NAA, daily ad revenues (not adjusted for inflation) reached their all-time peak in 2000, and by 2007 had fallen by 13%. Newsprint demand has also been affected by attempts on the part of newspaper publishers to reduce marginal printing costs through various conservation measures intended to cut newsprint usage.

Text-to-Text: This novel reminded me of a Japanese manga series I had read years ago called "Full-Metal Alchemist". Like "NewsPrints" the setting takes place in a world most likely in the 1900s but implements some technology clearly ahead of its time (artificial humans, intricate prosthetic limbs, unfamiliar geography). The way in which "NewsPrints" was drawn (the character design of the artificial human named Crow in particular) also reminds me of Japanese manga. It is very interesting to see American graphic novels implementing common aspects of Japanese manga within their texts.Find sources: "Newsprint"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( November 2008) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) I love stories about girls or women disguising themselves as boys or men so they can circumvent societal restrictions. Here, Blue works as a newsboy, and a very good one. Most people she interacts with don't know she's a girl. Newsprint is a low-cost, non-archival paper consisting mainly of wood pulp and most commonly used to print newspapers and other publications and advertising material. Invented in 1844 by Charles Fenerty of Nova Scotia, Canada, it usually has an off white cast and distinctive feel. It is designed for use in printing presses that employ a long web of paper ( web offset, letterpress and flexographic), rather than individual sheets of paper. NewsPrints" by Ru Xu is directed towards children who read at an intermediate grade level, 3rd-6th grade. I identified this novel as a science Fiction graphic novel because though the setting reflects a time somewhere around the early 1900s the world is geographically dissimilar with different countries and cities, and engaged in a fictional war. Though the world that the characters live in is somewhat realistic, the book implements unrealistic technology such as fictional aircraft and artificial humans, a.k.a robots.