Yesterday, the Avengers Teen Reading Group met at Egham Library to discuss
Eoin Colfer's graphic novel, 'Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code'. The entire group
enjoyed the book and thought the graphic illustrations were outstanding and
really brought the characters and the plot to life. The group found the story
easy to follow even though some of them had not read any of the previous Artemis
Fowl books. They said it was a clever interweaving of plot and characters with
lots of action. They all like Artemis as a character and were able to identify
with the strong females in the book. One group member said she would have
preferred to have read the actual novel rather than the graphic version because
it would have provided more detail but she still liked the book and
illustrations and everyone gave it:
The group also enjoyed re-writing the ending of 'Artemis Fowl: The Eternity
Code' but found it challenging to fit their own text around the images. They
said it would have been easier if they developed the story first and then
created the images. Perhaps you would like to consider a similar activity with
your own reading group?
