Super Student! Super Milly and the Super School Day by Stephanie Clarkson

TODAY IS SUPERHERO DAY AT SCHOOL.

Milly is super creative. She makes her superhero costume with a cape made with foil and red tea towel with a hole (it doesn't show), her brother's yellow underpants, and big, peel-off M sticker.

Milly's very inventive, but that doesn't mean she thinks she has real SUPERPOWERS. She knows she has no X-RAY vision. She can't leap tall buildings (or even climb up the sides of skyscrapers) and her brother Joe always beats her to the last slice of toast.

And there is already an emergency at school!

WILLIAM'S MOM FORGOT THAT IT IS SUPERHERO DAY!

He's crying in the corner. Milly knows that a real superhero would whirl up a super cloud to change school clothes into superhero tights and a cape. But she can't do that.

Instead, she has a super idea. She peels off her big M, turns it upside down, and sticks it on William's chest.

BAM!

WONDER WILLIAM!

Then Amazing Archie must have green paint for his superhero's picture, but the selfish Spider Sid won't share! Smart Milly has a super solution.

ZAP!

WE CAN MIX BLUE AND YELLOW!

Being kind and imaginative is Super Milly's superhero power, in Stephanie Clarkson's latest, Super Milly and the Super School Day (Nosy Crow, 2021).

Super Milly's special powers are just what her class needs for Superhero Day. Artist Gwen Milwand provides the jolly blackline drawings of typical tykes for this story about just the Right Stuff to save the day. This one is a good read-aloud choice for teaching youngsters empathy as well as how to think outside the box!