Research Catalog

Title

Reading with pictures : comics that make kids smarter! / [edited by] Josh Elder.

Publication

• Kansas City, Missouri : Andrews McMeel Publishing, [2014]
• ©2014

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Elder, Joshua
• Giarrusso, Chris

Description

vii, 173 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 29 cm

Summary

Featuring more than a dozen short comic stories, this volume addresses specific learning concepts in Social Studies, Math, Language Arts, and Science while offering an immersive textual and visual experience that kids will enjoy even as it helps them learn.

Subject

• Pictures in education > Comic books, strips, etc
• Visual learning > Comic books, strips, etc
• Children > Books and reading > Comic books, strips, etc
• Graphic novels

Genre/Form

Comics (Graphic works)

Note

• Chiefly illustrations.

Contents

Introduction / Josh Elder -- Foreword: comics & education / Gene Luen Yang -- How to read a comic / Tracy Edmunds -- Language arts. G-Man: reign of the robo-teachers / Chris Giarrusso -- Power of print / Katie Cook -- Albert the alien in "It's a figure of speech" / Trevor Mueller & Gabriel Bautista -- Special delivery to Shangri-La / Mike Lee & Janet Lee -- Science. Adventures of Doctor Sputnik: man of science! in "Force and motion" / Roger Langridge -- Like Galileo / James Peaty & Tintin Pantoja -- Mail Order Ninja and the silverback horde / Josh Elder, Tim Smith, Chris Beckett, Steve Wallace, & Jim McClain -- Mathematics. Finding Ivy / Michael Bramley & Alice Meichi Li -- Probamon! "Gotta chance 'em all!" / Geoffrey Golden & Nate Pride -- Solution squad / Jim McClain & Rose McClain -- Lumina: celebrity super-heroine in "Menace of the mathemagician" / Josh Elder & Jen Brazas -- Squirrels vs. birds "Prime-composite showdown" / Jason Allen & Heidi Arnhold -- Social studies. Black brigade / Chris Schweizer -- Field trip / Russell Lissau & M.P. Mann -- George Washington: action president / Fred Van Lente & Ryan Dunlavey -- Contributors -- Thank you for your support.

Call Number

JFF 15-387

ISBN

• 9781449458782 (hardback)
• 1449458785 (hardback)

LCCN

2014932923

OCLC

885596874

Title

Reading with pictures : comics that make kids smarter! / [edited by] Josh Elder.

Publisher

Kansas City, Missouri : Andrews McMeel Publishing, [2014]

Copyright Date

©2014

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Elder, Joshua, editor.

Giarrusso, Chris, artist, author.

Research Call Number

JFF 15-387