I listened to the audio of this book/original publication. As far as the story, I thought it was a really great way to get across many of the facts and information in a story setting. Short, lots of action, not a ton of backstory (which seems to happen in many of the Titanic tales). I always try to get the Kindle copy of any of my audiobooks, to re-read portions, check for any extras that didn't make it into the audio (author's notes, illustrations, discussion questions, etc). The regular book had some illustrations - I also checked out the Special Edition, which was chock full of bonus material (almost as many extras as text in the original book). I saw there was a graphic novel version ... so I checked it out too.

Because the book is so short, it translated quite well to the graphic novel format - I didn't go page by page but didn't feel that anything was left out. The pictures really brought some of the story to life more than just reading/listening to the words. It would have been interesting for me to have read this FIRST, to see if I was as able to follow the story (it's easy after the fact, having listened to the audiobook and skimmed the Kindle copy). I would give this a thumbs up to any reluctant reader who didn't quite feel up to the original version.