Comic Books

Wow! I am actually writing my master thesis on the use of grapic novels with special education LD students to enhance literacy. I say continue with them. They are remarkable literacy tools and will do a great deal to enhance his reading skills. Not only will he decode, but he'll enhance vocabulary skills, literary concepts, and so forth. The list goes on but I won't bore you with it here. My oldest daugters collect and read comics as well as graphic novels. My husband still has his collection from when he was a kid, and our son just started to recognize what they are. There are so many wonderful ones out there! I'm both a Marvel and Dark Horse fan.

I never really got into comic books, but I had a friend in college who loved them. She read and collected them (I remember her showing me her most prized possession, an X-Men #1.) If he's going to start collecting them you might want to talk to the shop owner and get some suggestions, I know there are plastic sleeves that can protect the covers. I think it's a great way to keep kids reading. But be aware, comics aren't just for kids anymore. Some can be quite graphic and explicit in their content.

My brother and I used to collect and read comics all the time, and my boyfriend has a nice collection. it was cute I said I wanted a library. a nice collection of literature and he had this sad face and asked if his comics can mingle with my lit. I had to laugh and tell him of course.

Dear friend, As a kid I used to collect comics books later I gave many of it to local library, my friends and relatives. But even now I do read them if I get chances my favourites were Puruana Amarchithra Kathas, Twinkle,Phantom, Mandrake, Tintin, Superman, Sipderman and famous five. I hope it is really a catchy product for kids who like stories.

Not me, but my uncle. He has several hundred comics. Many of them 1st editions. His collection is worth quite q bit of cash. He had been collecting since he was a kid in th 1960's.

How old is your son? My son, 9 years old, does the same thing. He will not stop with comic books only, but he goes for coloring scrapbooks, CDs / DVDs too. In our area, those comic books and these CD / DVD are sold at grocery stores itself. So whenever we go to the grocery store (he smells it somehow), just he will cling to my shoulder and start asking for these kind of things. He will read those books for just few seconds and then tell "Father! Can you read and tell me the story?". Thank God, he plays the movies for himself. Again, he'll be screaming "Dad! Look at this" often.