{"id":1912,"date":"2026-06-17T11:21:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T10:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/LearningResourceService\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2026-06-17T11:21:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T10:21:49","slug":"solving-crimes-is-not-my-superpower-by-nathanael-lessore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/LearningResourceService\/solving-crimes-is-not-my-superpower-by-nathanael-lessore\/","title":{"rendered":"Solving Crimes Is NOT My Superpower! by Nathanael Lessore"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Review by Elaine Swan, Langlees Primary School, Falkirk<\/p>\n
A funny whodunnit for young readers with a touch of magic in a traditional detective tale. I think this book would be a good class novel and the expressive and humorous illustration would also make it a good intro book for pupils transitioning from skinny novels to slightly longer novels.<\/p>\n
Even without having any superpowers until the end of the book the main character Sara displays tenacity, kindness, courage and brains \u2013 showing what \u2018superpowers\u2019 really are and that there are many ways to be a \u2018hero\u2019. I also liked the fact that she laughed at her own jokes.\u00a0 The other characters were varied and added to either the moral storyline running through the book (Sara\u2019s parents) or the solving of the crime (Georgie and Javier).<\/p>\n
This illustrated chapter book is worth reading as it could also invoke discussions around the concepts of clues, suspects, predictions and inference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Review by Elaine Swan, Langlees Primary School, Falkirk \uf005 \uf005 \uf005 \uf005 Suitable for: 1st level Themes \u2013 friendship, family, mystery, finding your \u2018superpower\u2019, celebrating difference, empathy A funny whodunnit for young readers with a touch of magic in a traditional detective tale. I think this book would be a good class novel and the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8541,8539,3619,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-creating-a-reading-culture","category-first-level","category-literacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/LearningResourceService\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/LearningResourceService\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/LearningResourceService\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/LearningResourceService\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/LearningResourceService\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/LearningResourceService\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1914,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/LearningResourceService\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions\/1914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/LearningResourceService\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/LearningResourceService\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/LearningResourceService\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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