Send for a Superhero!

Description

A bedtime read turns into a very funny superhero adventure in this exciting blend of picture book and comic book storytelling. It's time for bed and Dad is reading Emily and little Elmer a story... "Danger! Filth and Vacuum, The Terrible Two, are trying to destroy the world!" Who will save the day? Steel Man isn't strong enough; Flying-Through-the-Air-Very-Fast-Man isn't fast enough and Incredibly-Big-Strong-Green-Man isn't big, strong and green enough. Who can help? Clever young Brad 40 has a brilliant idea: he calls on a most unlikely superhero: Incredibly Boring Man, who sends the villains - and everyone else - to sleep! Filth and Vacuum are captured by the army, Brad is a hero, and Dad thinks Emily and Elmer have fallen asleep too. But he's wrong...

Michael Rosen is one of the most popular authors of stories and poems for children. His titles include We're Going on a Bear Hunt, Little Rabbit Foo Foo, The Sad Book, Tiny Little Fly and the poetry collection Bananas in My Ears. Michael received the Eleanor Farjeon Award for distinguished services to children's literature in 1997 and was the Children's Laureate from 2007 to 2009. He is a distinguished critic and academic, co-directing an MA in Children's Literature at Birbeck College. His poetry readings are adored by children and adults alike. Michael lives in London. Katharine McEwen graduated from Kingston University in 1996 and has since illustrated around forty children's books for all ages, including Cows in the Kitchen, Hey, Tabby Cat! and Here Comes Tabby Cat, four Sam's Science books, the Silver Street series and Allan Ahlberg's Gaskitt stories. Katharine lives in Tonbridge, Kent.

Katharine McEwan's anarchic, comic-strip illustrations are a perfect match for this thoroughly enjoyable and subversive text. -- Nicholas Tucker The Independent Michael Rosen's Send for a Superhero! is a story within a story, or, rather, a comic book within a book. It's a pleasing frame that children will enjoy, especially seeing the smaller version of the book within the story itself. Inis