Superwolf
Helen Docherty and Thomas Docherty
Alison Green Books

Little Luna has a yearning: to be a superhero is her life’s goal. Her big brother tells her this can’t happen because everyone beats a hasty retreat when they see a wolf. Undaunted, Luna works hard honing her super hero skills until she feels ready to show others just how super she can be. Off she flies and soon encounters a kitten stranded atop a tree. Luna swoops towards the treetop and in so doing causes the kitty to take a leap – right into the paws of his waiting parents and the three dash away.

Soon Luna spies a bus stuck in a muddy patch. Having shot downwards, she uses her strength until the wheels are free. No recognition of her might is forthcoming though: the passengers merely run to hide.

And so it goes on. No matter where she goes and what she does, her help is unappreciated. Thoroughly dejected, Luna creeps away, tossing her cape aside, she is ready to give up following her dream; but then she hears a cry for help coming from the river. A family of rabbits in a boat are being swept towards a waterfall. Could this be the opportunity Luna has been looking for? She grabs her cape, flies after the terror-stricken rabbits and …

All this goes to show that you should never give up on your dreams.

Told in a jaunty rhyming text by Helen and illustrated by Thomas, whose scenes of Luna’s endeavours to prove herself are bursting with life, full of drama and fun details including a bird that appears in every picture.