Explains how fossils form and explores the early years of paleontology in graphic novel format, covering such topics as nineteenth-century English fossil hunter Mary Anning, the Bone Wars, and the South African cave site Swartkrans.
Provides a description of the triceratops, a three-horned dinosaur, and features a graphic-style story that illustrates the challenges faced by a young triceratops as it grows to adulthood. Includes information about fossil evidence.
Provides background information about Chinese mythology, presents three Chinese myths in graphic novel form, and includes a look at other mythological characters, and a glossary.
The living dead is explored here through graphic novel format, also supported by color and black and white photographs. Students will enjoy walking in the steps of the undead through time.
Presents a brief profile of civil rights activist Rosa Parks written in graphic comic format, and describes how her experience became the inspiration for the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955.
Provides background information about lost cities and civilizations, presents the stories of Atlantis, El Dorado, and Camelot in graphic novel form, and includes a brief debate on whether such cities exist.
