By JP Coovert
A comic that teaches your child to make their own comic, step by step.
A shopkeeper named Maggie takes a young helper under her wing and teaches them, and your child, how to make a comic from scratch: coming up with a character, building a story, drawing panels, inking, all wrapped inside a fun little adventure with a treasure map running through it. By the end a child has followed real, doable lessons and can sit down and make a comic of their own.
Your child is always doodling but won't read, and this is the book for them. It reads like the comics they already love, then turns them into a maker: every chapter is a real, followable lesson that ends with them able to build a comic themselves. That's a powerful thing for a reluctant reader, because it turns reading into a doorway to something they want to do, and the finished comic they make is proof they can. Part of the how-to Maker Comics series, so there's a whole shelf of make-it books behind it.