Building a Library blog - Tom B
...my personal favorite Titans literary spin-off is the DC Super-Pets series. It’s a killer series of chapter books by Capstone, written by a rotating series of authors and all illustrated by Titans‘ co-creator Art Baltazar. . . .The plots are actual stories, not just adaptations of cartoons (important distinction!), and the five books in the eighteen-book series that we’ve read so far have all been entertaining, engaging, and fun. . . .Visually, you can’t beat these chapter books. The DC Super-Pets titles are gorgeously designed, almost as if they were a hybrid between a traditional chapter book and a comic book. Sound effects explode off the page, certain names and locations are highlighted to attract the eye, the art is to die for, and the back of the book even includes a glossary for some of the more complex words featured in the story. They’re designed to promote reading and to make reading fun, which – let me repeat it for a third time – shouldn’t be revolutionary, but it is.
July 27, 2012Building a Library blog - Tom B
In my last post, I went on and on about how fantastic the DC Super-Pets chapter books from Capstone Publishers are, and I still really recommend them for any kid who loves superheroes and who’s starting to read on their own. (Even if they aren’t a junior comic nerd like my kid, they’re still very entertaining reads.). . . .I’ve had such a positive experience reading Capstone’s Super-Pets books to my daughter...
July 28, 2012