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Magazine Article
Beginning-Reader Comics Roundup
2023
Overview
Beginning readers and comics are natural partners. Both use visual support to help readers make sense of their stories. In beginning-reader comics, this allows authors opportunities to use more difficult words and tell more complex stories without losing their audience. Beginning-reader comics also serve as a bridge to the exciting world of kids' comics, which can then lead to a love of good old-fashioned weekly comic books, manga, and graphic novels galore. The appeal of comics also crosses the divide between children who are enthusiastic readers and those who struggle or whose primary interests lie elsewhere, and this is where comics have power. Comics have cachet with kids. They're cool, and maybe even a little transgressive. In the case of beginning-reader comics, the best of them embrace this spirit along with literary and artistic ambition, as in Sergio Ruzzier's Fox + Chick series, which features expressive and distinctive watercolor illustrations with lived-in touches such as mismatched sheets on the beds and crumbs on the counter.
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The Horn Book, Inc,MSI Information Services
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