As a high school teacher I can attest to the fact that it is
getting hard and harder to get students to read books. With the proliferation of the internet,
social media, cell phones, I-Pads, laptops and other graphic based media students
are no longer content to pick-up a book containing just words.
If it doesn’t have pictures and is not presented in short
and concise info tidbits then they pass right over it.
Author and artist Wayne Vansant has created a new history ‘book’
that delivers both graphically and informational. Normandy: A Graphic history Of D-Day is presented
as a graphic novel with lots and lots of full color illustrations.
Accompanied by and intermingled with historical text the
book successfully breaks down the Allied invasion of Hitler’s Fortress Europe
into visually interesting moments and events complemented by text that explains
what is going on.
By segmenting the invasion into parts, as seen by Allied and
Axis forces, the book allows young readers to visualize what occurred. They think they’re reading a ‘comic book’ but
they are actually learning something. Very
clever.
Normandy: A Graphic history OF D-Day is published by ZenithPress and is available now.