Johnny Recruit (Hardcover)

I'm a Grade 3 teacher and wanted something different to teach my class next year. I like that this book is the exact the opposite of “rapid-fire” social media streams. There is no dialogue and big double-page scenes encourage children to (calmly) find the clues on the page to piece the whole story together. They'll need to use their imagination to fill in the gaps between each page - which is all great for comprehension and analysis. The story is nice, rich, simple and old-fashioned like comics in the 1940s. It does have a few more mature pages - like some dead soldiers - but nothing gory or graphic. Johnny Recruit is a good book and could be a very good learning tool for an older class. - Grade 5 or 6 probably.