A seemingly adventurous, buoyant person, Nalvana wonders about the possible answer to a rather big question: what is her superpower? As Nalvana goes about trying to discover her superpower, however, she begins to recognize some of her classmates’ impressive superpowers! For example, one day at the playground, Nalvana sees her friend Maata swinging high on the swing set and suddenly fly to her landing! Maata can fly! On another day, Nalvana sees her cousin Joanasie building an inuksuk at the the top of a hill. The picture book centers around Nalvana who wears “a yellow cape made from a blanket and a pair of snowmobiling goggles resting on her head” everywhere she goes. What’s My Superpower?, written by author Aviaq Johnston ( Those Who Run in the Sky) and illustrated by Tim Mack, is an utterly charming, wonderfully optimistic story about one young girl’s search for her superpower and what happens along her journey. “Nalvana always thought about what it would be like to have superpowers…”
But then her mom shows Nalvana that she is unique and special-and that her superpower was right in front of her all along. Nalvana thinks she must be the only kid in town without a 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 feels like all of her friends have some type of superpower. Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Inhabit Media. Tim Mack's illustrations are vivid and captivating making What's My Superpower? a book that just jumps off the shelves.What’s My Superpower? by Aviaq Johnston, illus. Aviaq Johnston includes manyl Inuktitut words adding the beauty of the story. It's such a wonderful story about embracing each other and recognizing the superhero in everyone. The little things we do everyday make us superheroes to someone. So what is her superpower? In this beautiful story about seeing the differences in each other and what makes us unique and special, Aviaq Johnston shows us that we all have superpowers. It seems all of Nalvana's friends have super powers but her. There's Davidee with super speed and Maata who can fly so high she reaches the clouds, and Joanasie who has the power to build anything he can imagine.
What if everyone knew they were superheroes and they were celebrated for it? In What's My Superpower by Aviaq Johnston and Tim Mack, Nalvana recognizes superpowers in all of her friends. That is how we know superheroes but what if their superpowers were out in the open for everyone to see. Many superheroes have alter egos, the people they are when they are not out fighting evil.
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