Tales of the Dead: Ancient China

Tales of the Dead: Ancient China
Written by Stewart Ross
Illustrated by Inklink and Richard Bonson
Informational book 4

This book had a lot going on it. There was the story that was a graphic novel around the out side of the pages and then all of the information was in the middle. It was really hard for me to read the story and the information that was given at the same time. I found my self just reading the story instead of learning about Ancient China. I feel like I if a student picked the book up it would be the same way or vise versa. It is hard to keep the two a part. I tried for the first few pages to see if it was easier to read the text and then the story, but then I would lose my place in the story and have to look back. Then I tried to read the story and then the text, but then I would just continue on with the story and skip over a lot of the text.

I really enjoyed the story that was in the book. It was great portrayal of what could really happen to the Emperor and to the people of China. The information in the book was exciting to learn about. I do not know that much about China, expect for the basic things I learned in history class. I learned a lot about how they traded and what types of boats they used. I even learned new things about how the Great Wall was built.   I liked how it was broken down as well. There was a short paragraph that would give an over view of the topic, and then pictures would go into further detail with smaller text accompanied with it. This book had a lot of great information in it, but it was all over the place for my liking.