Scholastic Reader Collection Level 3: Batman: 4 Adventure Stories

by Jesse Leon McCann, Brian Augustyn, Devin Grayson

Introducing the Batman Reader Collection! Four bestselling Batman readers in one collection, paper-over-board, 6 x 9, and priced at $6.99!

These four beginning chapter book readers, bound in a 6 x 9 paper-over-board format, feature the exciting adventures of everyone's favorite Caped Crusader -- Batman!

This bind-up

Batman #1 -- Time Thaw
Batman #2 -- The Copycat Crime
Batman #3 -- The Mad Hatter
Batman #4 -- The Purr-fect Crime

Genres: Superheroes, Childrens

160 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2005

About the author

Jesse Leon McCann is an American comic book and children's book author. He wrote most of the stories for the Pinky and the Brain comic series, edited two out of the four Simpsons episode guides, and wrote all of the Smiley the Psychotic Button comics for Chaos! Comics. McCann's Shrek II movie adaptation novel made the New York Times Best Selling Children's Book list in 2005. While McCann mostly scribes comic books and children's books, he has written for a variety of genres in different forms (such as the Austin Powers trivia game).

Reviews

[James]

I really liked this because there were four stories in one. I also liked how they were really suspenseful, like the one with the weird fog.

[Freda Anderson]

I love Batman. And I love encouraging literacy. So this seemed like a great combo. But honestly this book falls into the trap that too many early literacy books do by sucking the entire plot dry for the sake of simple sentences. There is no good reason that a sentence can't be simple and also interesting. This was a dry and repetitive read. Even if I was a kid that LOVED Batman, I would feel like I got tricked if I read this.

[Thomas]

Don't be a criminal.

[Victoria]

Stories are kind of irritating.

[Megan Farley]

Well, it was about Batman and four different villains he had to defeat. William loved it.

[Kiki]

Spiderman is my favorite superhero, but I read this anyway. I give this book 3 stars because I liked it and the stories were good.

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