Williams, Marcia

When Archie is given a scrapbook for his tenth birthday in 1914, he chronicles the next four years of his life using documents, artifacts, and comic strips.

Retells Homer's classic Greek myths in a comic strip format characterized by irreverent humor.

Retells seven of Shakespeare's plays--"Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "Macbeth," "The Winter's Tale," "Julius Caesar," and "The Tempest"--in comic book format.

Takes the reader on a tour of Egyptian mythology, beginning with powerful Ra rising from the waters of the Nile to create the gods of earth, sky, and rain through the curse of King Tut's tomb and the rise of Cleopatra, with Rami, Ra's beloved cat, highlighting Egypt's many cultural and technological advances along the way.

Retells seven of Shakespeare's plays--"Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "Macbeth," "The Winter's Tale," "Julius Caesar," and "The Tempest"--in comic book format.

Presents an introduction to inventors, providing brief illustrated biographical profiles that provide information on various inventions and the people behind them, from Alexander Graham Bell to Johannes Gutenberg.