Dorling Kindersley also puts out a collection of CD ROMs including The Way Things Work and others. Dorling Kindersley Limited, London Alfred A. Knopf New York, NY Children's Books Mouse Tales Beautiful illustrations. My friend Anne Meyer at CAST introduced me to this book. It surprises me that Comic books aren't used more as a way to get kids to read. Comics are generally layed out in frames.
Frames make it very easy to track a story and to jump ahead or jump back.
Each frame contains some text and a picture. This is very different from typical book illustration. This is highly contextualized and can make reading much easier for people who have a hard time with large chunks of text. For those who have an easy time with reading this kind of format will feel clumsy at first, but I urge you all to give it a chance. A comprehensive history book in comic format.