Marvel Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse The Official Guide Hardcover – 29 December 2018

This is good but when it is delivered

Good

It’s intended audience for this book is for middle school kids. If you’re a hardcore fan of the movie I would recommend this but if not stick to the movie.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has the movie-goers in awe. The animated film has cleaned up at the Box Office and created a whole new fan base in a younger generation, who until now, may have found the Marvel franchise a bit daunting. There's lots going on in the two hour film and this guide captures the main characters, with information about them presented in a very accessible way.The film is rated PG and this guide squarely aims at this audience, The 95 pages are double spreads, each featuring a character or fact central to the film. The artwork is bold and colourful, capturing the excitement and feel of the film. The font is bold and clear. The vocabulary is not especially complex and is informal. This makes it ideal for middle primary schoolers upwards. Thew hard cover will keep it intact too.A great guide from DK, well thought out and executed.

Our seven year old loves this. Having seen the trailer (but not yet seen the film itself) he was keen to know more and as a grown up geek myself I must confess to this being a bit of Spidey's world I knew nothing about. It is a great quality hardback book. Bright colours and clear text look brilliant. It is presented with a non-fiction style contents page so is easy to locate information on specific characters and settings from the film quickly. Each section is set out so it is easy to get into with there being loads of illustrations (not film stills) a short paragraph about each character/setting and then lists of things to know about. Bold titles for the little info' boxes scattered through out make it a fun quick read that can be dipped into and help discuss non-fiction text features too. Great!

The new Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse movie is great and younger kids may appreciate this book that details all the main characters from the film.The book is full of excellent colour pictures and presents the facts in a fun way, though there are fewer words than I expected, even for younger readers. Each character gets their own page and there are little quizzes and information about the universe making up the rest of the book. The lack of information does seem a little odd for the audience, though, as most of it can be picked up in the film itself, making this feel a little like a quick cash in.In one way it's a pretty good tie in, it's accurate and has some great illustrations, but in another way it feels like a missed opportunity with so little in the way of new information.

First things first, this isn't a grown up guide or even a middle grade/tween level of guide, this is very basic, short sentences and lots of bright illustration and bullet points or lists to keep the eye flowing across the page and so is absolutely ideal for the young emerging reader say 5-7; those a little older but struggling with literacy for one reason or another; and reluctant readers as it's going to be an easy read rather than pages of small text.It's a fun brief introduction to orientate before or remind after watching the film and ideal as a way of encouraging children who adore Spider-Man and films to engage in reading too.