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Making Literacy Connections: Comic Books and the Role of Youth Media

by Michael Bitz � February 10, 2005

The concept of using comic books�nowadays referred to as �graphic novels��to help children become better readers is not new. In 1941, the Gilberton Company launched Classic Comics, a series of literature-based comic books in which novels such as Moby Dick were transformed into boxed art with the typical dialogue balloons.

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