The Right Stuff! Be A Star, Wonder Woman by Michael Dahl

AT DAWN A NEW DAY AWAITS.

NEW CHALLENGES AWAIT.

Growing up is hard to do.

Facing school on Day 1 IS a challenge, one that requires some courage and perhaps some super skills, too.

In Michael Dahl's latest story, he portrays a girl rising to the challenge as the day begins. Paralleling Wonder Woman's doughty deeds with facing the trials of school, Dahl's Be A Star, Wonder Woman! (DC Super Heroes) (Capstone Books, 2017), shows how our little heroine finds her inner superhero and meets the tests that lie before her.

As a superhero, Wonder Woman is a model for girls. Aside from admirable strength and very good reflexes, she possesses none of those supernatural abilities that power Superman and his ilk. Wonder Woman has to conquer difficulties with only her goodness, her courage, her wits, and her bracelets and lasso at hand when it comes down to right making might. In this companion book to his Good Morning, Superman! (DC Super Heroes),(see review here) Dahl has Wonder Woman fighting crime and evil fearlessly in the background as his little heroine faces down the challenges of her day--spelling tests, the twisty slide, the task of peacemaking in the clique, facing the new teacher and finishing her work well on time and all alone. This girl has got the right stuff to take on the world.

NO MATTER HOW TOUGH THE CHALLENGE OR HOW DIFFICULT THE TASK,

A HERO MUST BE STRONG. SHE MUST NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER QUIT!

As in the earlier book, Omar Lorenzo again provides the artwork, using prospective to great effect to keep the simultaneous deeds of Wonder Woman and our young heroine moving along through their day in vivid style suited to its origins in DC Comics superheroes. With the movie Wonder Woman playing at movie houses everywhere this summer, it's time for brave and clever girls to find their own superhero within, too. not just in getting up early and making the school bus, but in making a difference throughout their school day, perhaps a nobler task than warring with Circe!