The Battle of the Alamo

Graphic Library: Graphic History

by Matt Doeden, Phil Miller

In graphic format, presents the story of the siege of the Alamo and Davy Crockett's role in it.

Genres: History, Graphic Novels, Childrens

Library Binding

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Matt Doeden was born in southern Minnesota and lived parts of his childhood in Golden Valley, Minnesota, and Madison, Minnesota. He studied journalism at Mankato State University, where he worked at the college newspaper for three years. In his senior year, he served as the paper's Sports Editor, which put him in charge of the entire sports section, the sports writers, and the photographers. He covered mostly college sports, but also the Minnesota Vikings, who held training camp at MSU.

His work allowed him to meet and interview people like Dennis Green, Cris Carter, Robert Smith, and more. Matt went on to work as a sports writer for the Mankato paper, and then he got a job as an editor with a small children's publisher called Capstone Press, and in 2003 he decided to start his own business as a freelance writer and editor.

Since then, Matt has written and edited hundreds of books. Lots of them are on high-interest topics like cars, sports, and airplanes. He also writes and edits on geography, science, and even math.

Reviews

[Daniel Ryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This graphic novel is an nice overview of the famous battle, and suitable for kids and adults alike.

[Matthew · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a small, graphic novel-style telling of the fate of the Battle of the Alamo within the struggle for Texan Independence. It does a decent job of detailing the key figures and major events, though not as good as Espinosa’s Graphic Planet: The Battle of the Alamo. It is suitable for a teacher refresher as well as for a MilHis student with a reading disability.

[Savanne Howard · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a student, this book was very fun to read even because it was a graphic novel. The detailed pictures made it very fun and entertaining to read.
As a teacher, I think this book is good to have in a 5th grade classroom. Not only does it talk about the war, but also has great images to look at on each page that you could discuss in deeper detail.

[John]

This is a real good graphic novel of the famous battle. Not much to say, but, yeah, good graphic novel.