Trials, Triumphs, and Stinky Diapers! Superheroes Don't Babysit by Amber Hicks

The caped superheroine is just about to save the city from the evil Zog when Dad appears, requesting a really big favor...

...KEEP AN EYE ON YOUR LITTLE BROTHER?

Superheroes don't babysit, but A deal is struck and Zog will have to wait! It's Super Sitter on Duty!

Right away, he whines that he's hungry, so, being a dutiful superhero sitter, she'll make him a healthy snack. Right away, he won't eat it. He'll demand an ice cream sundae. He'll also insist on squeezing on the chocolate sauce from the big bottle. Right away, she's got her first super cleanup feat to perform! Then, she'll have to read his favorite story to him.

SEVEN TIMES!

And while she's heroically wiping up chocolate syrup from the floor, she smells something really stinky.... and it's not the trash!

After a heroic cleanup and a rubber-gloved diaper change, (Superheroes don't call their daddies to handle poopy diapers), her little brother runs straight to her room and asks to play with her dolls! They are NOT dolls, she explains. They are...

ACTION FIGURES!

And he can't play with them..., but OOOPS! That one's broken! But then he says he's sorry and...

HE'LL HUG HER.

And he'll fall asleep against her sweetly and she'll realize...

EVEN SUPERHEROES NEED SIDEKICKS!

Awwww! Not even a mighty superhero sister can resist the charms of a trusting and sleeping toddler, in Amber Hicks' Superheroes Don't Babysit (Beaming Books, 2020). This is a super sweet story of sibling rivalries resolved which shows that true superheroes can conquer more than bad guys, illustrated with super charm in the sympathetic artwork of Kyle Reed. Says Kirkus Reviews, this one ... "combines familiar picture-book tropes into something clever and new."