We're still struggling to get Matthew to read books above the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" level. Thinking along the same lines of the "Illustrated Classics Comic Books" route, I picked up a copy of the just-released
Graphic Novel adaptation of "A Wrinkle in Time" for Matthew.
I left it on the kitchen table for him to discover this morning. When I came down at breakfast, he looked up from it and asked me "Dad, what's a 'Tesseract'?"
I smiled and said "Keep reading, you'll find out."
(Invisible Parental fist-pump.)