History Comics: The Roanoke Colony: America’s First Mystery

My 10/11 year old loves this book and learned so much reading it. As with most graphic novels, she read it multiple times (because there are different levels of reading graph novels. You read the words and you read the pictures rich with details that aren’t expressed in words. I used to be concerned about my child’s graphic novel preference until I did more research and learned there is a lot going on and it isn’t just watered down reading.) I wish there was so much more historical graphic novels of this quality. I would buy every one of them.

My 10/11 year old loves this book and learned so much reading it. As with most graphic novels, she read it multiple times (because there are different levels of reading graph novels. You read the words and you read the pictures rich with details that aren’t expressed in words. I used to be concerned about my child’s graphic novel preference until I did more research and learned there is a lot going on and it isn’t just watered down reading.) I wish there was so much more historical graphic novels of this quality. I would buy every one of them.

Bought this for a trip to NC. My 8 yo loved it and read it many times. It reminded me of Action Presidents, which he read one once and really enjoyed. My son generally reads the I Survived, Magic Treehouse, Ranger in Time series.

I bought this as part of a North Carolina history homeschool unit for my 8 year old, rising 4th grader. I know very little about the Lost Colony and wanted to brush up on my history as well as preview the book before I handed it to my daughter., My one quibble would be with the author’s use of slightly crass humor – in one comic, Manteo, the more clownish narrator, is reviewing a scene from his past and jokingly lifts the back of his loin cloth to check out his butt. No butts are shown, but it’s just needless juvenile humor., In another scene, Sir Walter Raleigh is called “the sexiest man” alive… really don’t want to have to explain to my 8 year old what “sexiness” is., As far as some reviewers saying that this portrays the country in a negative light, I don’t agree. The English Colonists we’re not saints, and they weren’t even Americans, so there’s no need to get ruffled over discussing their real faults and missteps.

I bought this as part of a North Carolina history homeschool unit for my 8 year old, rising 4th grader. I know very little about the Lost Colony and wanted to brush up on my history as well as preview the book before I handed it to my daughter., My one quibble would be with the author’s use of slightly crass humor – in one comic, Manteo, the more clownish narrator, is reviewing a scene from his past and jokingly lifts the back of his loin cloth to check out his butt. No butts are shown, but it’s just needless juvenile humor., In another scene, Sir Walter Raleigh is called “the sexiest man” alive… really don’t want to have to explain to my 8 year old what “sexiness” is., As far as some reviewers saying that this portrays the country in a negative light, I don’t agree. The English Colonists we’re not saints, and they weren’t even Americans, so there’s no need to get ruffled over discussing their real faults and missteps.

My 9 year old enjoyed this. We read through it together, and a bit at a time. The story is comprehensive so there are a lot of characters, but it does a good job of setting the history in its context: Spanish empire, pirates, Queen Elizabeth, and the native peoples.

This is an otherwise informative book – my son and I enjoyed reading it together – but basically the only female character, the queen of England, is turned into a man-crazed clown. Why?

This is an otherwise informative book – my son and I enjoyed reading it together – but basically the only female character, the queen of England, is turned into a man-crazed clown. Why?