This is the fun way to teach complicated economic ideas like opportunity cost, supply and demand, taxes and capital resources. Chester the Crab explains economics using a trip to a video rental store, a safari with The Tax Hunter and the tracing of how a dollar changes forms as it goes through a suburban mall. This funny, colorful graphic novel will excite reluctant readers, prepare students for standardized tests and help homeschooling parents!
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Bentley Boyd graduated from Harvard University with a degree in History and Literature. He has been a professional cartoonist for 15 years and is a passionate advocate for the use of the graphic novel format to enliven non-fiction material for young readers. Boyd lives in Williamsburg, Virginia, and makes full use of the surrounding historical resources to research, write and draw his books.
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Chester helps in the classroom,
This review is from: Comix Economix (Chester the Crab's Comics with Content Series) (Paperback)
Chester has become a staple in our classroom. The students love to read his adventures and he helps to make a sometimes confusing topic more understandable.
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