For Interest: From Slashdot:
"The Telegraph reports that Professor Carol Tilley, a professor of
library and information science at the University of Illinois, says
that comics are just as sophisticated as other forms of reading,
children benefit from reading them at least as much as they do from
reading other kinds of books, and that there is evidence that comics
increase children's vocabulary and instill a love of reading. 'A lot
of the criticism of comics and comic books come from people who think
that kids are just looking at the pictures and not putting them
together with the words,' says Tilley. 'But you could easily make some
of the same criticisms of picture books – that kids are just looking
at pictures, and not at the words.' Tilley says that some of the
condescension toward comics as a medium may come from the connotations
that the name itself evokes but that the distinct comic book aesthetic
— frames, thought and speech bubbles, motion lines, to name a few —
has been co-opted by children's books, creating a hybrid format."
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/2145215/Comic-Books-Improve-Early-Childhood-Literacy
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