Books like Do Super Heroes Have Teddy Bears?
By Carmela LaVigna Coyle
Do Super Heroes Have Teddy Bears? turns dinner vegetables and the dark hallway to bed into missions a cape can handle. Your kid already knows a towel makes a cape, and this book says that counts as brave. The books below are for keeping that cape on a little longer.
Same rhyming bounce and pretend-play courage, but Skippyjon Jones in Mummy Trouble by Judy Schachner sends the hero into a whole made-up underworld with riddles to solve.
A gadget-loving girl dreams of fixing rockets instead of going to the royal ball, but when her fairy godrobot sends her anyway and the prince's ship breaks down mid-party, her wrench skills save the day.
Another small kid who refuses to be scared, but Madeline's Christmas by Ludwig Bemelmans puts her in charge of a whole houseful of sick friends at Christmas.
Sent to his room for a time-out, a big-eared Siamese kitten imagines himself as a swashbuckling Chihuahua hero who must chase a menacing Bobble-ito out of his friends' doghouse.
Two scarecrows, Betty O'Barley and Harry O'Hay, fall in love and plan a wedding in the fields, gathering the farm's animals and birds to help them celebrate.
A little girl gives a pig a pancake, and one request leads to another — syrup, then a bubble bath — spinning into a chain of demands that circles right back to where it started.
A groovy cat's rainy day surfing plans get cancelled, but instead of getting sad, he turns a big box into a launchpad for his imagination.
A clever mouse walks through the deep dark wood, escaping hungry predators by inventing a scary monster called the gruffalo — then discovers the gruffalo is real.
When a Czar promises his daughter to whoever brings him a flying ship, a young man dismissed by everyone as a fool sets off to try his luck and gathers a band of strange companions along the way.
Chores turn into missions here too, but Traction Man Is Here! by Mini Grey gives the hero a plastic toy body and a bathtub full of villains.
A man and his dog set out on a peaceful camping trip, but a marshmallow-loving bear sends them plunging down a mountain and racing down a river toward a waterfall.
Facing the Christmas dinner table this time instead of the Thanksgiving one, a resourceful turkey treks to the North Pole and tries disguise after disguise to get past Santa's door and beg for help.
