I don’t know where I saw it recommended, but I want to pass on my own recommendation for the classic novel Watership Down, by Richard Adams, turned into a graphic novel and illustrated by Joe Sutphin.

Adams insisted it wasn’t meant as children’s literature, and it’s not, exactly. But many children take to these anthropomorphized rabbits: Fiver, Hazel, Bigwig, and Buckthorn. And the novel becomes a gentle introduction to the world of politics and political ideas.

I think the illustrations by Sutphin and the judiciously large dialogue type make this perfect for young if sophisticated readers — say from age eight and upwards — and for those who are reading to them.