The screens are written in a small font, all in caps, enhanced with photos or diagrams, and are clearly meant to be read by an adult while the advanced beginner reader can handle the lively dialogue between Zig and Wikki. As the adventure continues, with lots of amusing parrying between Zig and Wikki, the screen reappears every few pages to reveal a series of scientific facts which explain the connection among the flies, the cows, the dung beetles, the grass. As they speculate about the fly’s problem, Wikki (a walking, talking computer screen), offers up an information screen that directs the friends to a farm back on earth. The comic begins with Zig and Wikki in their space craft along with Zig’s lonely pet fly. This Toon book by Nadja Spiegelman and Trade Loeffler, is a perfect way to discover what is in that cow pie and how it is connected to a much larger world. If you’ve ever poked a cow pie with a stick, you are ready for Zig and Wikki in The Cow. It’s a reading program to try to get kids into reading! The books are divided into 3 reading levels (Zig and Wikki are a reading level three). This is a hilarious way to teach kids about cows and how they eat, the ecosystem, dung beetles and what they do in the ecosystem, what flies do in the ecosystem, and how to get eaten by a cow (not recommended )! I WILL recommend this book to kids 7+, though! The illustrations and comic-book format make a book most kids will like and/or love! This is part of the Toon Books Easy-To-Read Comics series. The Zig and Wikki books have a comic-book format (because they’re comic books) and every now and then a fact box (Wikki’s information screen) will pop up. Zig sets out to find his fly but he and Wikki soon realize that their ship has been eaten by a cow and they need to get it back to get home! They crash on Earth and Wikki lets the fly go without Zig’s permission. So, Zig convinces Wikki to come back to Earth to make the fly feel better in case it is homesick. Zig and Wikki are back in an all new adventure! Zig’s pet fly (he brought a fly home from Earth on their last adventure) isn’t feeling really well.
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