Top Of The Lake' Producer See-Saw Films To Adapt Alice Oseman's Graphic Novel Series 'Heartstopper' For TV". Fiona Noble also included Volume Four in The Guardian's list of "The best children's books of 2021", describing it as a "joyful, tender look at first love and relationships with an inclusive cast". A television adaptation of Heartstopper entered development after See-Saw Films acquired the rights in July 2019. Heartstopper tells the story of Charlie Spring and Nick Nelson – two British schoolboys who attend the fictional Truham Grammar School – as they meet and fall in love.

I don't know if any non-UK people understand the 'lads'/'banter' thing and I don't really know how to explain it hahaha. Writing for The National, Gemma McLaughlin praised the novels for being able to "capture the attention" through "the small stories that make up life" rather than plot twists and heavy drama.OKAY GANG the response to this has been very positive so I've started uploading Heartstopper to Webtoon" (Tweet) .

Now in a gorgeous special-edition hardback: with an extra never-before-in-print mini-comic, beautiful endpapers and an exquisite foiled cover, this is an unmissable edition. The books were pulled from shelves in at least two school districts, Clay County, Florida [33] and Canby, Oregon. But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is discovering all kinds of things about his friends, his family . By Alice Oseman, winner of the YA Book Prize, Heartstopper is about love, friendship, loyalty and mental illness.Alice is the author of several YA contemporary novels about teenage disasters: SOLITAIRE (published when she was 19), RADIO SILENCE, I WAS BORN FOR THIS, and LOVELESS (a New York Times bestseller). She felt that the treatment of Charlie and Nick's characters displayed "a level of understanding and care that elevates the story" and argued that the story "never devalued or ignored" the characters' other relationships with friends and family.

The graphic novel became the top-selling children's book in the UK following the popularity of the Netflix series. In September 2021, Turkey's Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Services labeled the publication "harmful" concluding that "some elements in the books might have harmful effects on the morality of the those aged below 18.They were released on 7 February and 11 July 2019, [8] 6 February 2020 and 6 May 2021, respectively. Alice was named the Attitude Person of the Year 2023, and The British Book Awards Illustrator of the Year. Heartstopper is an ongoing LGBTQ+ young adult graphic novel and webcomic series written and illustrated by British author Alice Oseman. Summer Hayes reviewed Volume One in Booklist and praised Oseman's use of wordless panels to portray characters' emotions, although she felt that the illustrations were inconsistent.

Oseman "fell in love" with the couple while writing the novel and decided that she needed to tell their story. The series was later adapted into the Netflix television series of the same name also written by Oseman and starring Kit Connor and Joe Locke as Nick and Charlie, respectively. V. Club praised the book's reproduction of the webcomic's art, its use of white space, and Oseman's handwritten lettering, which she says is "expressive .

The webcomic series received more than 52 million views and the novel had sold more than one million copies worldwide. But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is discovering all kinds of things about his friends, his family … and himself.