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A review by haia_929
Science Comics: Dinosaurs: Fossils and Feathers by MK Reed
2.0
This is a trimmed down version of my review, to view the full review visit The Book Ramble.
Science Comics is a new series from First Second introducing various science topics to kids in a fun easy to read graphic novel format. This particular book follows the history of the study of dinosaurs from the beginning to just last year. The text is paired with adorable illustrations of dinosaurs and pop culture references.
I was so excited for this series when I first heard about it, I delved right in the second I got it, and boy was I disappointed. This book was a mess! There's a throughline in this book, a history, a map - and the book can hardly stick to it. Reed dumps all kind of extra unnecessary information throughout the book that was distracting, made me lose focus, and really took away from the overall historical narrative. The one thing I'll give this book is that the art was amazing.
The book tackles a really long stretch of history in about 100 pages, that's incredibly ambitious. I think they didn't give themselves the room needed to really delve into most of what they tried, unsuccessfully to delve into. There were tangents scattered throughout the book that really took away from the overall narrative of the study of dinosaurs, and really added a lot of confusion. To me it just felt like they were trying so hard to cram so much in, and the pacing was weird and forced because of it. If I was a kid reading this I would have been lost so quickly because nothing was properly explained
The art was gorgeous. That was really the thing that made up for the writing to some extent. The art was clean and simple, the illustrations looked like what I remembered learning as a kid, there were some great visual gags too. Some of the flowchart kind of stuff was incredibly difficult to follow though, and that paired up with the writing just made the book seem even more of a mess.
I wanted so badly to love this book, but I couldn't get into it at all. I was so frustrated when I was done reading it. I would not recommend this.
Science Comics is a new series from First Second introducing various science topics to kids in a fun easy to read graphic novel format. This particular book follows the history of the study of dinosaurs from the beginning to just last year. The text is paired with adorable illustrations of dinosaurs and pop culture references.
I was so excited for this series when I first heard about it, I delved right in the second I got it, and boy was I disappointed. This book was a mess! There's a throughline in this book, a history, a map - and the book can hardly stick to it. Reed dumps all kind of extra unnecessary information throughout the book that was distracting, made me lose focus, and really took away from the overall historical narrative. The one thing I'll give this book is that the art was amazing.
The book tackles a really long stretch of history in about 100 pages, that's incredibly ambitious. I think they didn't give themselves the room needed to really delve into most of what they tried, unsuccessfully to delve into. There were tangents scattered throughout the book that really took away from the overall narrative of the study of dinosaurs, and really added a lot of confusion. To me it just felt like they were trying so hard to cram so much in, and the pacing was weird and forced because of it. If I was a kid reading this I would have been lost so quickly because nothing was properly explained
The art was gorgeous. That was really the thing that made up for the writing to some extent. The art was clean and simple, the illustrations looked like what I remembered learning as a kid, there were some great visual gags too. Some of the flowchart kind of stuff was incredibly difficult to follow though, and that paired up with the writing just made the book seem even more of a mess.
I wanted so badly to love this book, but I couldn't get into it at all. I was so frustrated when I was done reading it. I would not recommend this.