The Revenge of the Green Meanie is the first Superhero School book by Alan MacDonald, a daft and lovable adventure for 7 year olds about a boy with no powers whatsoever.<\/p>\n
Stan Button is jumping on his bed saving mankind from Dr Doom when his mum calls him down for tea. He has a mask on the bedpost and a plastic Captain Courageous by his bed, and a firm plan for his future. He is going to be a superhero.<\/p>\n
His dad, gently, wonders whether he might like a second option.<\/p>\n
Then a silver envelope with no stamp lands on the doormat, inviting Stan to an interview at somewhere called Mighty High.<\/p>\n
The interview is the best thing in the book. Miss Marbles has wild grey hair and a marmalade cat that keeps trying to escape, and she reads her questions off a crumpled sheet. Have you ever woken up on the roof of a tall building? Ever lifted a car? Ever melted anything with your eyes? Have you ever fallen upstairs, which she points out is much harder than falling down them.<\/p>\n
No, says Stan, to all of it. Then she asks him to run at a wall as fast as he can and not to worry about the damage.<\/p>\n
He is, she concludes, perfectly normal. Which at Mighty High is the one thing you can’t be.<\/p>\n
What saves him is the thing he’s had all along and never thought counted. His ears prickle just before something bad happens, and on the way out a flowerpot comes off a ledge above Miss Marbles’s head.<\/p>\n
The joke that runs through the whole book is that superpowers are basically school admin. There’s a motto on the wall, a cook called Mrs Sponge whose dinners Miss Marbles openly advises against, no uniform but capes compulsory, and a classroom of children who mostly look ordinary except for the enormous scowling one at the back.<\/p>\n
It moves quickly, there’s a proper villain waiting, and Stan is easy to like because he keeps not being the special one.<\/p>\n
If it goes down well there’s a second one waiting, Thunderbot’s Day of Doom, in which a television weatherman turns bad and starts holding the country to ransom with the forecast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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