Awards

• Commended for Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens (Up to Seven) 2007
• Runner-up for Monarch Award 2009
• Short-listed for North Carolina Children's Book Award (Picture Book) 2008
• Short-listed for South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award (Picture Book) 2008

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9780060745141

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Reviews

Engaging alphabet book whose characters embody the right mix of reassurance, goofiness, and humor. -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

This frothy mix of laughs, giggles and Good Guys zeroes in on its target audience with superhuman accuracy and action. --Kirkus Reviews

Veteran comic-book artist McLeod presents an alphabetical gallery of newly minted superheroes-from Astro-Man, who is Always Alert for An Alien Attack to the Zinger, Zanily Zigzagging through the Zero Zone. A can-do crew of hunky men and buxom women (plus the occasional animal or alien) properly decked out in loudly colored, form-fitting spandex, these crime-fighters bring a range of outrageous abilities to their work. Bubble Man, for instance, Blows Big Bubbles at Bullies, while Rain Man Rains on Random Robbers, Goo Girl shoots Great Gobs of [green] Goo at Gangsters, and, grossest of all, Volcano Man-well, let's not go there. This frothy mix of laughs, giggles and expertly drawn, melodramatically posed Good Guys zeroes in on its target audience with superhuman accuracy and action. (Picture book. 5-8) (Kirkus Reviews)

Author Information

Bob McLeod is a comic-book illustrator who has worked on such projects as Spider-Man, Superman, and The Phantom. He lives with his family in Pennsylvania. You can visit him online at www.bobmcleod.com.

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