Here is a recipe for an appetizing collection of books that will be the perfect nutrition for your child’s hungry little mind. For many years I have approached a few publishers to try consider publishing a kid friendly comic book related book line to stimulate kids to read and at the same time build them as future comic book readers. Not in the plans right now, that market is not right for us. Our main audience are adults, was the answer I got. How can you build an audience if the kids are into video games right now, I don’t think they will graduate to comics, just to more violent games. Fret not, Françoise Mouly & Art Spiegelman of Little Lit fame are here to the rescue. Art Spiegelman the champion of the comic form is the architect to make sure he and Françoise continue building new and older readers to their new imprint for young kids called Toon Books. Very apropos. A true welcome idea for parents who have to deal with the old Dr. Seuss fare. Look what happened to Dick and Jane. (who?) Bring out something fresh. So look out in 2008 for this new imprint.
Comics have always had a unique ability to draw young readers into a story through the drawings. Visual narrative helps kids crack the code that allows literacy to flourish, teaching them how to read from left to right, from top to bottom. Speech balloons facilitate a child’s understanding of written dialogue as a transcription of spoken language. Many of the issues that emerging readers have traditionally struggled with are instantly clarified by comics’ simple and inviting format. Read more>>
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