Captain Awesome vs. Nacho Cheese Man

Kirby, Stan. Captain Awesome vs. Nacho Cheese Man Vol. 2. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2012.  11 vols. Print.

C      Captain Awesome is now reigning supreme in my classroom. My students LOVE him. They ask about him everyday. If I am not reading one of these books to them they are asking if they can flip through them on their own (even with limited pictures!!!). We have now completed the first and second volume and I am on the hunt for the third. Believe you me, my kids will not let me sleep until I tell them I've ordered it and it is on its way!

          I started reading these to my kids as an experiment of sorts. I always try to spend a little time on chapter books in Kindergarten. I think it improves reading comprehension and listening stamina and is therefore important (there's a lot of research to back me...I love when I can say that). However, I usually don't bust out these big boys til closer to the end of the year. I liked the first Captain Awesome so much myself that I thought I'd just give it a try. It took better than I ever expected! What's really amazing about the whole situation is that my low kids are the ones following the story line and begging for these books to be read more so than anyone else in the class. This makes me one happy teacher! I don't care what it costs. I will own every Captain Awesome book by the end of this year.

           Oh, I almost forgot to tell you about the book! Haha! The first one is still my favorite, but this one is good and humorous too. Captain Awesome and Nacho Cheese Man have to fight the evil Mr. Drools to try to keep him from ruining all their things, especially Captain Awesome's ever-so-beloved Super Dude Comic No. 429! (After all, Super Dude was their inspiration for becoming superheros in the first place). Everything goes awry when Captain Awesome suspects Nacho Cheese Man of stealing his Super Dude Comic No. 429. To make matters worse, Nacho Cheese Man gives Captain Awesome's bus seat to Meredith Mooney, or Little Miss Stinky Pinky, as they so lovingly refer to her as. Both boys become pretty convinced that their little world is crashing in on them and that they will never be friends again.