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Originally Posted by barryem
I also don't think the graphic novel is likely to be chosen by schools instead of the book but I do know of one situation similar to that. In Texas when I was growing up everybody got Texas history every year. One of the textbooks, usually used in alternate years as I recall, was in graphic form. It was a big thick comic book, with much larger pages than most comic books and probably 2/3" thick. It covered pretty much everything the normal textbook covered and it was probably read by a lot more people. I used to love reading that thing.
I've always enjoyed history so I didn't enjoy that as a way out of reading the usual textbook, but for it's own sake. And it was a decent textbook in it's own right. It had pretty much all the facts of the normal textbook and it put us right in the middle of things as well.
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I loved that Texas History 'comic' book. It is the text book I remember best. It even had humor such as the look on the captured General Santa Anna's face when he was trying to pass himself off as a private until his captured troops bowed to him. That graphic text book inspired a lifelong love of history.