Picture Book Favorites: Superheroes

When a dark night comes to the big city, one little super hero prepares for a great adventure . . . bedtime! He dons his pajama uniform, speeds upstairs, cleans up the nightly grime, and keeps watch from his towering bunk bed. Written by award-winning author Michael Dahl (Goodnight Baseball, Goodnight Football, and Goodnight Hockey) and illustrated by Ethen Beavers (DC Super Friends), this bedtime tale will have Batman fans, young and old, delighting...

"Cuando Gotham es atacada por supervillanos, Superman y Batman deben detenerlos. Pero cuando los dos héroes se encuentran en problemas, ¿Quién podrá ayudarlos? ¡Tal vez mujer maravilla y batichica puedan darles una mano!, "--Page 4 of cover. Supervillains attack Gotham City, and Superman and Batman must stop them, with an assist from Wonder Woman and Batgirl.

Profiles such Marvel superheroes as Captain America, Black Widow, and Black Panther.

Introduces the superhero Spider-Man, explaining what makes him special.

"When Laura--a.k.a. Masterpiece Robot--heads into the backyard with her little sister Molly--a.k.a. Sidekick--her active imagination places them instead on patrol around the perimeter of a dystopian city, guarding against super villains. Then older sister Amber--a.k.a. Valerie Knick-Knack--throws handfuls of fallen leaves at them, unknowingly initiating a battle for the ages. The transitions back and forth from suburbia to dystopia in this story...

"Discover the world of Bruce Wayne a.k.a. Batman. By day he's a rich businessman, but by night he's defending Gotham City! Join Batman on his adventures as he battles supervillains with the help of his super hero friends"--

Publisher Annotation: Meet Fred, a boy who loves spaghetti. Fred's mom is an inventor, and when she builds a machine that can turn anything into spaghetti, Fred thinks life will be nothing but noodles from here on out. But when Fred himself accidentally ends up in the amazing spaghetti-making machine, Fred finds himself transformed. He becomes Super Spaghetti! (A superhero made entirely of spaghetti.) Is this spaghetti-crazy-boy-turned-superhero made...

"A tongue-in-cheek portrait of the lives of child heroes"-- "Clad in bright suits that bespeak their daring deeds, these mini heroes live their daily lives assailed by all sorts of difficulty and disaster. Whether jumping rope on the playground, eating towers of ice-cream, or hanging upside-down from the ceiling, they are never short of plans and prospects! Sometimes, it's true, they have to pause, which may be the greatest challenge of all."--Amazon.com....

Learning good bathroom habits is more fun when you realize your heroes use the potty too.

"This delightful, stylized picture book will take Spider-Man and his friends to a whole new location--one packed full of mystery and magic just waiting to be explored"--