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I am married to a man who hates to read. I've seen him pick up a book maybe twice in ten years and he'll flip through magazines, but he really hates to read. I love to read and am in graduate school for library science right now. Many of my fellow students are huge graphic novel fans so I started asking around, thinking perhaps this is something my husband would enjoy. I checked out a number of graphic novels for him and focused on novels around World War II especially, one of his interest areas in watching the History Channel, for example. He has read every one of them cover to cover. It's absolutely amazing! I am so thankful to have this option available to capture the imagination of someone who hates to read, but I think a lot of it is intimidation at the size of novels and the small print, etc. Here the amount of text is limited and the illustrations are so fabulous it helps people who may have limited visualization abilities.
Just want to say thank you to all the artists and writers - great work!

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