The China Children's Book Expo in Beijing has highlighted how interesting, comic books can help with the learning of Chinese history by children.

Tens of thousands of visitors have participated in the ten-day Expo, which concluded on July 16th.

China Children's Press & Publication Group hosted a public reading session on July 15th, featuring a historical comic series.

Combining comics and texts, the series seeks to tell the stories and present Chinese history to the children in an interesting and easy-to-understand way.

Many young readers and their families endured the heat wave to participate in the event.

The creators of the historical comic series gave a presentation on how they produced the comics.

During the “historical family show" session, four families presented their creative short plays adapted from historical stories.