What's My Superpower?
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Publisher Description
Nalvana feels like all of her friends have some type of superpower. She has friends with super speed (who always beat her in races), friends with super strength (who can dangle from the monkey bars for hours), and friends who are better than her at a million other things. Nalvana thinks she must be the only kid in town without a superpower. But then her mom shows Nalvana that she is unique and special, and that her superpower was right in front of her all along.
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In a story dotted with Inuktitut words, Johnston (Those Who Run in the Sky) introduces Nalvana, a girl who wears a blanket cape and an old pair of snowmobiling goggles it's her superhero costume. Newcomer Mack draws Nalvana with a button nose, dots for eyes, and an excited smile; her pet husky galumphs along beside her bicycle. The Arctic village they cycle through is lined with small, wooden houses, the landscape rocky and treeless. Nalvana longs to have a superpower, the sort she readily sees in her friends: Davidee "can run faster than a Ski-Doo," Maata can swing high, and Joanasie can make an inuksuk out of stone and an iglu from snow. Nalvana praises and encourages them all. It's Nalvana's mother who identifies her daughter's talent: "Your superpower is making people feel good about themselves." Readers who struggle with doubts about their own abilities will be reassured while simultaneously recognizing that children who live in distant places have problems not so different from their own. A glossary is included. Ages 3 5.
