My Brother is a Superhero

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Not Wearing Tights: Despite playing most superhero tropes straight, Zack insists on just wearing a dark hoodie as his superhero costume, with the hood pulled down over his face.

When he gets back, his undeserving, never-read-a-comic-in-his-life brother has been given superpowers and told to save two universes.I Just Want to Be Normal: Zack has never wanted to be a superhero and accepts the role with reluctance. What I especially loved about this book was that it was the non-powered ones who eventually saved the day.

Then his older brother Zach got turned into a super hero by a random visit of an alien spaceship while Luke was in the bathroom! This book is seriously clever as it treads the balance between appealing to just children or just adults and honestly it works perfectly. David Solomons is the best-selling author of the My Brother is a Superhero books, the first of which won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2016 and the British Book Industry Awards Children’s Book of the Year 2016. Later when he and Serge make up: "I couldn't imagine a universe in which Serge and I weren't best friends. The adults felt a little ridiculous at times, but I guess since this is from a child's perspective, I can go with it.This whole class reading session aims to develop children’s fluency and comprehension skills through reading the opening to David Solomon’s ‘My Brother is a Superhero. This book would be perfect for any 9ish plus comic book/superhero fans: I can think of several I shall be thrusting it upon!