Contact: Phil Ciciora
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Carol L. Tilley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Caption: Carol L. Tilley, a professor of library and information science at Illinois, says that comic books are just as sophisticated as other forms of literature, and children benefit from reading them at least as much as they do from reading other types of books.

Credit: L. Brian Stauffer

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