Kapow! Good Morning, Superman by Michael Dahl

A NEW DAY BEGINS.

THE SUN RISES. POWERFUL CONDENSED RAYS STREAM DOWN.

DUTY CALLS!

Just as The Man of Steel pulls up his tights and ties on his cape, our boy springs from his bed to face the day. The crayoned drawing of Superman on his wall inspires him to rise to the occasion. He pulls on his uniform and screws up his courage to face his first challenge, courageously facing the fierce taste of his kryptonite-green toothpaste. Patooieee! Just as Clark Kent's hurricane breath stops the bad guys, our kid spits and rinses and faces the next task with minty-fresh zest!

It's up, up, and away, and into the day, and our young hero at last heads out the door, hoisting his heavy backpack and bulky lunchbox as if they were feathers, and flies outto leap with a single bound onto the bus, just as his hero soars away to dominate his day.

Waking up is hard to do, but in this companion book to his Bedtime for Batman (DC Super Heroes), (read review here) Michael Dahl's newest DC Super Hero saga, Good Morning, Superman! (DC Super Heroes) Capstone Press, 2017) takes on the terrors of the morning rush with all the courage of that caped crusader in Metropolis. Summoning a superhero to get a youngster moving in the morning isn't a bad idea, and Dahl's narration gets a lot of its KAPOW! from the well-crafted and designed illustrations of artist Omar Lazano, who uses the dramatic style of DC heroes to good affect, switching off comic panels with full-bleed illustrations in varied page layouts with heroic, pixel-powered colors as his Superman shows the way to take charge of his day. "An excellent resource for parents attempting to wrangle their little superheroes' powers for good," suggests Kirkus Reviews.