Graphic novels.
From a story in Publisher's Weekly...
The audience of children and teens is growing,
critical and academic recognition has confirmed comics’ literary and
artistic value, and a new shelf of modern classics has arrived. The use
of comics is on the rise in educational circles as well: a recent survey
by test-prep publisher Kaplan showed a third of ESL teachers use comics
to help teach English, and the call for unorthodox learning materials
in the new Common Core standards could result in even more attention for
the growing field of nonfiction comics.
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addition, graphic novels are a key to several new initiatives for e-book
lending. Comics Plus: Library Edition, a team-up between library
distributor Brodart and the digital vendor iVerse Media, is a new
service aimed at making digital borrowing more convenient and
cost-efficient; it goes live this summer.
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