Bill Zimmerman continues his quest to blend comics and literacy for the sake of youth everywhere. With this particular effort, he's targeting those reluctant or hard-to-inspire boys who have been at the center of many a blog post here lately."The book has pages of situations in which readers fill in the characters' thought and talk balloons and point of view. Other activities encourage boys to draw full pages of comic strips with help from word and picture prompts. The book is geared for reluctant writers ages 9-13 and is part of my body of work over the years to help young people find their writers' voices," says Zimmerman.
Click this post's title to see more and to print sample pages that you can use with your youngsters!
Seriously, the samples are pretty cool, and the price of the book is just right at under ten bucks!
The book can be ordered from Amazon.com or at www.barnesandnoble.com or directly from the publisher, Free Spirit Publishing, at www.freespirit.com or by calling their toll-free number: 1-800-735-7323.
2 comments:
... am so pleased girls don't need to have fun drawing and writing. don't need to have an identity ("your life") in comics or anywhere else?
In this week's skinny "Newsweek" is a photo of the Big Boys having dinner during these Middle East Peace talks.
There is HILARY AT THE TABLE. On the end maybe, but at the table.
No wonder those sights make women glad.
Yeah, I'm sure Bill is just trying to give boys a sense of place at the literacy table. To his credit, most of his stuff is gender-neutral.
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