The September issue of the School Library Journal has been posted on that magazine’s website. Comics related contents include reviews of graphic novels for various age groups, a piece about Little, Brown’s planned American edition of Tintin in the Congo, and an interview with Shaun Tan about The Arrival.
Neil Cohn comments on studies examining the comprehensibility of comic book thought balloons to children with autism and more generally to developing children. These results confirm earlier findings of the efficacy of picture-in-the-head teaching about mental states, but go further in showing that thought-bubble training more easily extends to children’s understanding of thoughts (not just behaviour) and to enhanced performance on several transfer tasks. Thought-bubbles provide a theoretically interesting as well as especially easy and effective teaching technique. |