The Adventures of Wrong Man and Power Girl! by C. Alexander
London, illustrated by Frank Morrison.
PICTURE BOOK Philomel Books (Penguin), 2018. $18.
9780399548932
BUYING ADVISORY: EL
(K-3) – NO
AUDIENCE APPEAL: LOW
When there is trouble in the land, Wrong Man
is a superhero who likes to help. However,
Wrong Man manages to make every emergency worse. Wrong Man’s side kick is his daughter, Power
Girl and for every mistake that Wrong Man makes, Power Girl fixes it.
This book is weird and hard to follow. Because of the poor illustrations and lack of
enough explanatory text, I couldn’t tell what the emergencies were half the
time, let alone follow any sort of story line.
And what is the moral of the story-that fathers are bumbling
idiots? I felt like it was disrespectful
to fathers. There is too much detail in
the illustrations with multiple freeze frames of action shots that muddied the
story.
C. Peterson
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