Swing along with your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man and help keep the streets safe! Matching words with pictures and sounds enhances reading comprehension, and connecting with favorite characters engages young readers at story time.

Leap into action with the Avengers, Spider-Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, and more! While you read, press 39 sound buttons to make the stories come alive with heroic sound effects. Read the 10 tales all at once, or choose a different one each night before bedtime! Matching words and pictures with sounds develops reading comprehension, and interacting with beloved characters leads the way to a lifelong love of reading.

Attempts to define what comics are and explain how they work have not always been successful because they are premised upon the idea that comic strips, comic books and graphic novels are inherently and almost exclusively visual. This book challenges that premise, and asserts that comics is not just a visual medium. The book outlines the multisensory aspects of comics: the visual, audible, tactile, olfactory and gustatory elements of the medium. It rejects a synaesthetic approach (by which all the senses are engaged through visual stimuli) and instead argues for a truly multisensory model by which the direct stimulation of the reader’s physical senses can be understood. A wide range of examples demonstrates how multisensory communication systems work in both commercial and more experimental contexts. The book concludes with a case study that looks at the works of Alan Moore and indicates areas of interest that multisensory analysis can draw out, but which are overlooked by more conventional approaches.

It's the start of summer vacation, but for 10-year-old Louisa Brooks, things look grim. Her family just moved to a new town, where Louisa knows no one. All she wants to do is read, but her parents insist thatLouisa explore the new neighborhood and make friends. She has no idea that lurking in her town is an unwelcome visitor from a distant world, one who can take over all the machines, bending them to its will. Louisa's about to come face-to-face with the terrible Trull!

Webs! Villains! Action! Listen as Spider-Man battles evil Doc Ock to save the city. Sixteen super sounds guide you through Peter Parker's quiet life to his dangerous and secret life as Spider-Man.

Is your spider sense tingling? Swing along with Spider-Man to save the day! 13 interactive buttons bring the story to life with Spider-Man's voice and action packed superhero sounds! The special top button is set within a custom-shaped spider-web frame. Interacting with the story keeps young readers engaged, and matching pictures with words and sounds improves reading comprehension!