If there's one book we've posted more copies of than any other, it's Superbat.
Pat is a bat. Pat can do all the things bats can do. Fly in the dark. Hang upside down. Have extremely good hearing. Pat is not impressed. Pat wants to be a superhero. Pat makes a cape out of a piece of red cloth and tries out some superhero poses.
It's a short book. It takes three or four minutes to read aloud. Reception classes we've sent it to usually want it read again.
The reason we keep coming back to it is the thing under the surface. Pat spends most of the book feeling like the ordinary things he can do aren't enough. By the end, with a bit of help from the other bats in his cave, he notices that the thing he could already do is a thing the rest of us can't.
That's a useful story for a five-year-old. It's also a useful story for a parent, or a teacher, or a head of a small charity. We're not going to pretend Superbat is a metaphor for Story Seeds. But the book does something we try to do. It takes a plain idea, tells it with warmth, and doesn't overstay its welcome.
If your school would like a class set of Superbat, or any of Matt Carr's other titles, mention it on the registration form. We usually have some in stock.