Review of
Comic Guy: Our Crazy Class Election, by Timothy Roland ISBN
9780545004015
Five out
of five stars
This combination of text with cartoons
chronicles the situation where there is to be an election for the home room
class president. The class bully is a boy called Tank for obvious reasons and
he has decided to run for the position. Others in the class do not want to be
politically “ruled” by Tank, so they want someone to oppose him. With the help
and persuasiveness of the wheelchair-bound Clint behind him, the much smaller
Guy agrees to run.
This infuriates Tank and he attempts to use
the only tactic he knows, namely threats, to win the election. Clint proves to
be a strong ally and early in the story it is obvious that he is the one that
should be president. This provides a backdrop about how people with
disabilities should be taken seriously when positions of authority are being
filled.
This is a fun story to read, even though the
conclusions are obvious very early. There are two main lessons in it, standing
up to a bully and how to deal with people with disabilities.
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