Science Comics: The Brain the Ultimate Thinking Machine by
Tory Woollcott, illustrated by Alex Graudins.
118 pages. NON-FICTION/GRAPHIC
NOVEL First Second (Macmillan),
2018. $13.
Content: Language: G; Mature Content: G;
Violence: PG-13.
BUYING ADVISORY: MS, HS
– OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
Fahama and her sister are out selling cookies
door to door when Fahama is kidnapped by a scientist and his zombie. The scientist wants to dissect Fahama’s
brain, and in an attempt to buy herself more time Fahama gets the scientist to
answer all sorts of questions about the parts of the brain and its
processes.
I am not a science person, so
I enjoy these science comics. This book
has a lot of information that is super interesting, but also can be overwhelming
and has a high vocabulary. If students
are interested in the brain and it’s function they will enjoy this or if
you have a science teacher who wants to use parts of this book to supplement
their teaching it would work fantastic.
Your average graphic novel reader will be overwhelmed by the amount of
information. Also the violence includes some nasty cartoonish pictures of times in history when people experimented on the brain.
Reviewer, C. Peterson
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