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Kat Kan Research Paper

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Katharine "Kat" Kan has been reading comics for more than 50 years, ever since she learned to read. She earned her B.A. (1977) and M.L.S. (1981) at the University of Hawaii-Manoa. She has worked as a children's and then a young adult librarian for public libraries in Hawaii and Indiana, and she is now a part-time librarian in a PreK though gr. 8 school in the Florida Panhandle. Kat chaired the YALSA task force that created the Great Graphic Novels for Teens List, and she has edited Graphic Novels and Comic Books published by H.W. Wilson; she has written about graphic novels in libraries since 1994, most for Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA). She also reviews graphic novels for VOYA and for Booklist. In 2012 Kat joined the Board of Directors of

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