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January 20, 2022/in Picture Book Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant /by Angie Hill
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BfK 252 January 2022
Reviewer: Elizabeth Schlenther
ISBN: 978-1913747657
Price: £11.99
Publisher: Lantana Publishing
Genre: Picture Book
Age Range: Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant
Length: 32pp
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SuperJoe Does Not Do Cuddles

Author: Michael CatchpoolIllustrator: Emma Proctor

Joe is a superhero par excellence.  In spite of a Mum who insists that he wears his scarf or his vest or his belt, he rescues people from tigers, from runaway trains, and from a broken bridge over a river, muttering to himself that he sees the person behind these terrible happenings to be his nemesis, Grey Shadow.  We see Grey Shadow too, going about her nefarious business while Joe does all the rescuing.  But Joe hates cuddles because Superheroes don’t need them.  Or do they?  One night when he can’t sleep, he discovers that sometimes superheroes do need just that.  But Mum mustn’t tell anyone, particularly the Grey Shadow.  There’s a lovely little twist at the end when we see Grey Shadow herself having a cuddle with her Mum.  The illustrations are huge fun, and Joe’s imagination couldn’t be portrayed better.  The battle of the sexes has just begun!

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