DC Super-Pets: Pooches of Power

DC Super-Pets

by Sarah Hines Stephens, Art Baltazar (Illustrator)

When sardines go missing from the GOTHAM CITY Marina, ACE THE BAT-HOUND investigates. This clever canine quickly discovers a couple of clues, but something still smells fishy. To help solve the case, ACE calls on the most powerful pooch around . . . KRYPTO THE SUPER-DOG! They track down three fowl felons, the PENGUIN'S BAD NEWS BIRDS, ARTIE, GRIFF, and WADDLES. Working together, the doggy duo must recover the stolen sardines and throw those dirty birds in the can.

Genres: Superheroes, Childrens, Juvenile, Chapter Books

56 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[Brian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ace & Krypto take down the Penguin's trio of Bad News Birds.
As Batman says on the back cover, "Aw yeah, PETS!"

Our family can't get enough of illustrator Art Baltazar!

[Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Evelyn and I read this at bedtime over the last 2 nights- it was super cute! I love the animal aspect of the superheroes, especially for an animal obsessed 3 year old. The different styles of text and the small pictures mixed in with the main body of the text added a nice visual element for her to help keep her focused. I'm not sure 100% how much she was listening- but this was the book she picked and that's what we went with!

[Alma Petterson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Looking for a good book to help get kids into reading and this was great.

[Danielle · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like that there were two different villainous plots here - it gave an edge to a fairly short story.

[Nikki in Niagara · Rating 4 out of 5]

This new series "DC Super-Pets!" is a younger sibling to the already established "DC Super Heroes" series by the publisher. While the latter series is for established, and perhaps reluctant readers, this new series is for emergent or reluctant readers. All six books in the series are at a GR. 2 level with this one being at a RL:2.8. Following the same format as the established series, DC Super Pets uses colourful cartoon graphics for all the sound effect words. It goes on to make the books more appealing to younger readers by using different colours of text for each character's spoken words. There are also illustrations on every page, using a variety of formats from full-page to half-page to single illustrations amongst the text. This may sound crowded at first but the lines of text are double spaced creating a nice graphic display, easily read on each page.

We've now read all six books in this new series. Ds asked if there were any more and I had to tell him this was all there was for now. He's really enjoyed reading this series and it has stretched his reading capabilities. In this book we meet-up with Batman's pooch Ace, he goes to investigate missing sardines from the marina. While there Krypto the Super-Pooch shows up and as a team they find The Penguin up to his usual tricks. Together they take on the villain and his sidekicks, a penguin, vulture and puffin. Another action-packed, superhero story and one of my son's favourites in the series, though his (and my) favourite of the bunch is still "Heroes of the High Seas". Fun book!

[Betsy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not the most enthralling story, but seeing as it gets my dog and superhero loving kindergartner reading, it's a keeper.

[Brayton · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked Pooches of Power better than Royal Rodent Rescue because the dogs were cool and cute.