A Unique Way to Get Kids to Learn to Read

For the Jacksonville Business Journal, Cindy Barth writes…

\”By day, Colonial High School teacher Richard de Montebello is a mild-mannered biology teacher. After hours, though, de Montebello is a comic book author, penning a family-oriented, five-comic book series. A 7-year-old Native American boy named Sequoia and his pet baby saber-tooth tiger, Saber, are the main characters of The Adventures of Browser and Sequoia. Browser is a woolly mammoth. Now, after distributing more than 75,000 copies, de Montebello is ready to take the comic book series into the graphic novel market — and into libraries across the country.\” More