My Mighty Marvel First Book: Fantastic FourArt by Jack Kirby24 pages/Abrams Appleseed/$12.99 Marvel Hello Heroes: Spider-Man Swings ThroughBy Sabrina Moyle & Eunice Moyle48 pages/Abrams Books for Young Readers/$14.99 Abrams’ various imprints have done a fine job producing works for Marvelites of all ages, notably a series of board books for their youngest readers, indoctrinating them…
When I was a lad, the standard bio-for-young-people format was a small hardcover, heavily illustrated but written in prose, in short, punchy chapters and topping out at maybe a hundred and fifty pages. There were a lot of them: I recall shelves in classrooms and school libraries full of the things, some of them in…
The thing to remember about young readers is that they’re young. Maybe not everything in the world is new to them (“Wow! Breakfast is oatmeal! I’ve never seen that before!”), but they’re seeing and experiencing new ideas and concepts and situations all the time. It can be hard for those of us who haven’t hit…
