DC SUPER HEROES: MY FIRST BOOK OF GIRL POWER Read Free Books and Download eBooks
A celebration of girl power for budding super heroines featuring beloved DC characters from Wonder Woman to Batgirl.Exploring attributes from physical strength to intuition, this introduction to DC's super heroines is also a catalog of role models for little girls. From Wonder Woman's ability to find the truth to Black Canary's powerful voice to Batgirl's keen mind, readers will find much to admire. Cool, classic art makes for a fun, colorful package.
Series: DC Super Heroes (Book 8)
Board book: 20 pages
Publisher: Downtown Bookworks; Brdbk edition (October 21, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1941367038
ISBN-13: 978-1941367032
Product Dimensions: 8 x 0.6 x 6.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (216 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #1,572 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #5 in Books > Children's Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Superheroes #61 in Books > Children's Books > Early Learning > Basic Concepts
Age Range: 4 and up
Grade Level: Preschool and up
Always apprehensive about "girl power" books, especially with superheros. Found a lot that talk about heroines (usually Wonder Woman) but focus on her pretty bracelets or tiara. Hardly the recognition these women deserve.In this book, each page focuses on a different heroine, there are about 8, I believe. It talks about their strengths and what makes them unique. These are things like bravery, computer programing, and strength. This is the perfect book for a lot of strong female role models.
I ordered this book for my infant son. We have a few of the other DC board books and they're great. I was recommends this based on those purchases and I love it. As a woman I want my son to understand that girls are awesome, too. This does it in a way that treats the super heroines as if they were any other superhero, which I love because they are. The heroines featured aren't awesome because they're girls, but because they're awesome characters in general. That's the lesson I want my son to learn. It's an awesome book for this reason as well bright colors and obviously great illustrations. Great book for boys and girls.
My First Book of Girl Power promises to show girls how wonderful they can be, by introducing them to some of DC's iconic super heroines. Instead it gives us a few pages of different characters and a few lines of text about how great the character shown in.So if you want your toddlers to learn about Raven's powers or Black Canary's sonic scream this might be the book for you, but if you want your daughters to learn about their own potential this book has nothing.None of DC's handful of women of color are mentioned, the group is entirely white. I wonder if anyone even thought of including characters like the African-American heroine Vixen or Katana from Japan.The art is bright and clean, and probably the book's best feature. But the book obviously just uses stock artwork from the 80s over generic backgrounds. It probably took about 15 minutes to lay the book out. The artists are not identified but I would guess most are done by Jose Garcia Lopez who did most of the artwork for DC's licenses in the 80s. If soit certainly would have been nice to mention his name somewhere.EDIT - Yes it was almost certainly his work, I found the cover image in this blog - http://grantbridgestreet1.blogspot.com/2011/11/jose-luis-garcia-lopez.htmlA bit of rewriting could improve this book tremendously. For example when the author talks about Wonder Woman making people tell the truth young readers might be asked if they think it's good to tell lies. Instead of focusing on Black Canary's sonic scream, the author could have mentioned how she worked for years to be a great martial artist and prompt young readers to work hard, That's what I do when reading it to my girls. But DC didn't take that obvious step.I've been a fan of DC for years, and that's why I picked up this book. But as a father I recognize the difference between a book that uses famous characters and one that's just an extended ad for them. This book unfortunately is just an ad for DC's stable of characters and is not worth your time or money.
My husband has been really into all the super heroes ever since he was little, as I'm sure a lot of boys were and probably still are. I really knew nothing about them until I decided to purchase my two year old a couple. I gave them to her for Christmas and she really took to them. We both really enjoy reading them together and have both learned so many name of superheroes and what their powers are. But what I love most about these books, is that its not really all about the superhero, they teach lessons, and they teach things like colors, shapes, words, counting, and body parts. They really are wonderful books - I let my daughter choose one of these books every night and we read together at bed time. My toddler and I started collecting all of them and we both get really excited when they arrive in the mail. My daughter started to think that the mail man was just giving them to us as gifts, as if I didn't have to buy them lol. We have collected every one and they are releasing another one next week which we have already pre ordered and are super excited about. The books are a great price and arrive quickly. I hope they continue to make these books because we really love collecting them and enjoy reading them. She is even starting to remember the words and "reads" along with me!
Poor writing, simplistic art, and no story. You never get an idea of who the heroines are, what they use their powers for, how they obtained their powers, etc. Just a very weak book. The art is taken from an OLD comic book era. There are stupid sentences like, "Black Canary uses her sonic scream to protect people." Really? How? There are no panel sequences to show the heroines doing their thing. Just meaningless drawings of the characters against colors.This MIGHT be ok for a baby to ogle. But toddlers will be bored to death.Better superhero books for little ones:1) Wonder Woman Classic: I Am Wonder Woman (I Can Read Book 2)2) Super Friends: Flying High (DC Super Friends) (Step into Reading)3) Super Hero Squad: Aliens Attack! (Passport to Reading Level 1)4) Meet The Marvel Super Heroes5) Marvel Super Heroes Storybook Collection
This book is adorable! I bought is as a gift for my 18-month-old niece. What a great idea it is to introduce young girls to the Super Heroines they can be from an early age! I know she will love being read to from the bright, colorful pages and my sister (the mother) will appreciate the message and the fact that it contains many DC comic Heroines. The illustrations are just as they appear online. There are 10 sturdy bored pages.
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