Superheroes aren’t just for the big screen – they're in our books too! From bold graphic novels to bright, playful picture books, young fans of exciting adventures will find their next brilliant read right here.
Join Danny and Dino on a superhero-filled adventure as they try and save the city from a supervillain called DESTRUCTO!
The latest in Tom Fletcher and Dougie Poynter's much-loved series, this poop-filled extravaganza is brought to life by the preposterously talented illustrator Garry Parsons.
Recommended reading age: 0-5 years old
It's hard to fit in when you’re the new kid in superhero school! On Super Goat Girl’s first day, she’s met with a LOT of stares! After all what kind of superhero doesn’t have a fancy costume or a funky cape?
While the other children are having fun writing with lasers, doing lightning-fast math, and being super stretchy, Super Goat Girl doubts she can measure up. As weird events happen throughout the day, will she be able to figure out what her special superpower is and work out how not to feel super strange?
Recommended reading age: 0-5 years old
ZAP! POW! WHOOSH! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No – there's a Superhero in your book! Use the power of your imagination to unlock Superhero's amazing powers. You'd better act quickly before the Scribbler ruins your book completely!
This super story is full of interactive magic, and helps little ones learn the importance of kindness and the true meaning of being a hero.
Recommended reading age: 0-5 years old
Super Uma!
Meet Uma - Uma the amazing, the adventurous, the seriously awesome superhero! Together with her Nani, and Chip, her unicorn side-kick, she goes on rescue missions, standing up for what is right and generally spreading happiness in Sparkleopolis, the super-sparkly, colourful city where she lives.
Until one day the colour and sparkle start seeping out of Sparkleopolis. This must be a job for Uma! A brilliant feel-good tale celebrating accessibility, teamwork and kindness.
Recommended reading age: 0-5 years old
Nine-year-old Harry has always wanted a dog and when he sees Dottie at the local animal shelter he knows she's the perfect puppy for him. What he doesn't realise is that Dottie is a dog with a difference... She can talk and fly!
And Harry's not the only one interested in Dottie, and soon they are both scooped up in their very first mission with the SuperPets, a secret league of very special pets who keep the world safe from harm. But the other SuperPets have been kidnapped by Sparkletta Crystal, can "Super Sausage" (aka Dottie) and Harry stop the evil supervillain in her tracks before it's too late?
Recommended reading age: 6-8 years old
Invisidog hunts for danger wherever he finds it. There is no job too big, and no criminal too tough for the mighty Invisidog. He is the shadows!! And actually, that's kind of the problem. Because Invisidog's amazing superpowers... Are kind of rubbish.
Turns out being invisible isn't all that helpful when you're trying to rid a city of terrible criminals. They tend to have a habit of ignoring you for one thing. So Invisidog's going to have to think BIG. Can he convince the most amazing superheroes of all time - adorable-but-mighty Quack Attack, and the world's greatest thinker, Detective Octopus - to join forces?
Recommended reading age: 6-8 years old
Max Meow: Cat Crusader by John Gallagher (2024)
Max is just a regular cat in Kittyopolis, trying to make it big as a podcaster (Followers: 12) That is UNTIL he accidentally takes a bite of an RADIOACTIVE SPACE MEATBALL at his best friend, scientist Mindy's, SECRET LAB. Then before you can say MEOWZA, Max becomes…(drum roll!)… The CAT CRUSADER!
Being a super hero is fun (Super strength? Check! Flying? YES!!!) but not if you get so cocky, you forget your best friend! Will Max learn to listen? Will he and Mindy make up? And together, can Max and Mindy save Kittyopolis from the evil Agent M and BIG BOSS?!
Recommended reading age: 6-8 years old
Best friends Pizza and Taco are BACK and putting their drawing skills and wild imaginations to good use - by writing a COMIC BOOK together! When you LOVE comics like Pizza and Taco do, the next step after reading them is to make one!
But what happens when they can't decide on what to do? Who gets to have the bigger muscles? Who has the more rad superpowers? Can Pizza and Taco find a compromise and make a comic that is even more AWESOME than they are?
Recommended reading age: 6-8 years old
When a spaceship crash-lands outside of Rebecca Refractor’s school full of aliens who look just like adorable hamsters, she knows there is only one kid and Superpet that can help... Jack and Hercules the hamster, the superstrength Superpet!
The alien-hamsters can control minds and are determined to turn everyone on Earth into cracker-hunting zombies! But why are the aliens so cracker obsessed? And who (or what) is The Big Cheese – the villain boss the aliens serve?
Recommended reading age: 6-8 years old
Super Ghost
Do you like superheroes? How about pandas? Maybe you like really brilliant adventures? If so, then this is the book for you!
When world famous superhero Dr Extraordinary gets blown up inside a giant robot, twelve-year-old Sonny Nelson is devastated. A world without heroes is totally rubbish! But things take an even more extraordinary turn when Dr Ex returns and is invisible to everyone except Sonny!
Recommended reading age: 9+ years old
Aldrin Addis has the world's most unusual and secret SUPER-POWER: By eating very stinky cheese before bedtime, Aldrin can enter people's dreams and nightmares, and help them with their problems. The trouble is, Aldrin has problems of his own. Dad's not been himself since Mum died, their cheese shop (C'est Cheese!) is under threat of closure, and Aldrin's struggling at school.
But things go from bad to worse when Aldrin realises something - or someone - is trying to steal his cheesy super power for their own evil plan for world domination! And this time, Aldrin might need more than the stinkiest of Bries to save the day!
Recommended reading age: 9+ years old
After surviving a holiday to Italy without his parents (which included jellyfish and giant watermelons), Stan reckons he deserves a bit of a break. Or at a least a break in between trying to act in his school play. But when he’s offered the chance to take a tour around a TV studio, he thinks it can’t do any harm... How wrong he is.
Before Stan can say ‘Boy of Steel’ he’s landed himself a part as a main character in one of the most well-known TV shows there is – as a brainy superhero. Convinced he’s going to embarrass himself in front of millions of people – and worried about leaving his friends to face a school play on their own – can Stan find a way to use his new-found fame for good? Or will he be the Worst. Superhero. Ever...
Recommended reading age: 9+ years old
Kenny Wright is a sixth grade 'Grandma's Boy' in a tough inner city school, struggling with bullies, schoolwork and keeping his detentions secret from his 'G-ma'. Though in his active imagination he's a world-famous superhero, Stainlezz Steel, who fights crime, saves lives and rescues helpless animals.
But now Kenny’s neighbourhood need him – can he step up in his real life and help his ‘G-ma’ save the best School Principal he’s ever had?
Recommended reading age: 9+ years old
Alex is a normal, everyday kid, living in a normal, everyday city. Axel is a monster-slaying hero, living in a world of magic. But when the two boys mysteriously swap places, each of them ends up being mistaken for the other. With zero experience of heroism, Alex is thrust into an epic quest to defeat the evil Felonius Gloam, who has stolen the Book of Lifetales and is using it to unravel the very fabric of the world of Aërth. Meanwhile, Axel is faced with double maths, a gran who's six months behind on the rent, and a crucial chess tournament he's got to win – when he doesn't even know how to play.
Can the two boys complete their Impossible Quests and find a way back to their own lives, or will they both discover they don't have a life to come back to...?
Recommended reading age: 9+ years old
