Last City of Krypton (Superman Tales of the Fortress of Solitude)

Description

Years before Krypton explodes, the ruthless super-villain Brainiac shrinks the capital, Kandor, to miniature size and adds it to his collection of cities from across the universe. When Brainiac eventually reaches the Earth, and turns his shrinking ray on her cities, Superman comes to the rescue and halts his evil plans!

Michael Dahl is the prolific author of the bestselling Goodnight, Baseball picture book and more than 200 other books for children and young adults. He has won the AEP Distinguished Achievement Award three times for his nonfiction, a Teacher's Choice award from Learning magazine, and a Seal of Excellence from the Creative Child Awards. Dahl currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Luciano Vecchio currently lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. With experience in illustration, animation, and comics, his works have been published in the US, Spain, UK, France, and Argentina. His credits include Ben 10 (DC Comics), Cruel Thing (Norma), Unseen Tribe (Zuda Comics), Sentinels (Drumfish Productions), and several DC Super Heroes books for Stone Arch Books.

Both of these short books look appealing at the outset. They are designed as high interest, low vocabulary short stories. . . .Older readers who struggle tend to want to have books like their peers, but they need short stories that help them develop their reading ability. Younger readers like illustrations to assist them in understanding the tale. These stories by Michael Dahl are a good start.-- "CM: Canadian Review of Materials" The illustrations are colorful and filled with action, sometimes carrying aspects of the story that don't come through in the text. . . .While these books are not comics, the words and pictures do work well together to tell a complete story. Each one has questions and writing prompts at the end to encourage readers to think more deeply about the book. Reading one of these books is not unlike watching a Saturday morning cartoon in terms of complexity. They are filled with action and a bit of characterization, and the colorful illustrations really complete the package.-- "SLJ's Good Comics for Kids blog"