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Tiny Titans: Report Card Pickup!

DC Comics Tiny Titans are grade school aged super heroes: Super Girl, Aqua Lad, Robin and Barbara Gordon, Kid Flash, and Wonder Girl to name a few. Third graders, who watch TV, are very familiar with these characters from their daily television show. In this graphic novel’s first episode, villainous Principal Slade is  handing out the tiny titans’ reports to their guardians/parents one by one and making verbal comments (inside conversation bubbles) describing each tiny titan’s strong suits, such as, “KID FLASH NEEDS TO SLOW DOWN AND PAY MORE ATTENTION.” ( next bubble) “HE SEEMS TO BREEZE THROUGH HIS HOMEWORK!

Two of the other four episodes include: ‘Happy Feeling Blue’ about the Blue Beetle being painted pink* andJoke’s on You‘ where Robin confuses a birthday party clown with the Joker.

The book includes what they call a “BONUS PIN-UP!” which consists of a two-page spread of tiny titan head shots plus mini bios of 17 of the tiny titans.

There is a  half-page  glossary and half-page of tiny titan ‘action accessories’. These are followed by a two-page spread of “Visual Questions & Prompts“. Here the reader is given a chance to look deeper into four of the graphics in this book. For example, “1. WHAT DO YOU THINK BLUE BEETLE’S BACKPACK SAID TO HIM IN THE PANEL BELOW? WHAT CLUES DOES THE ILLUSTRATION OFFER*?