Batman: Mad Hatter's Movie Madness

DC Super Heroes: Batman

by Donald Lemke, Gregg Schigiel (Illustrator)

Billionaire BRUCE WAYNE and his teenage sidekick, TIM DRAKE, have tickets to a new Alice in Wonderland movie. Unfortunately, JERVIS TETCH, also known as the MAD HATTER, has infiltrated the theater and installed his micro-circuitry into the 3-D glasses. When the movie begins, dozens of GOTHAM teens are brainwashed! That night, TIM and the other teens awake, rush to the MAD HATTER'S lair, and receive instructions to rob the city's jewelry stores. They obey the demands, but soon run into BATMAN! The DARK KNIGHT must follow the teens, stop the MAD HATTER, and save the BOY WONDER from Wonderland.

Genres: Childrens

48 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2010

About the author

Donald Lemke works as a children's book editor. He has written dozens of all-age comics and children's books for Capstone, HarperCollins, Running Press, and more. Donald lives in St. Paul, Minnesota with his beautiful wife, Amy, toddling toddler, Cleo, and a not-so-golden retriever named Paulie.

Reviews

[KhiN’Millie Friesen · Rating 3 out of 5]

My favourite... second favourite is batman cause he is so cool and good. -Khi 4

[pat schill · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great

Undoubtedly am loving the books eye have read & going to read should be interesting at the least must say

[Nikki in Niagara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reason for Reading: This book is too hard for my ds to read on his own and will be read aloud by dh as a bedtime book. But I like my superheroes too and wasn't going to miss out on the fun!

Bruce Wayne and Tim Drake go to the premiere of a new 3D Alice in Wonderland movie. Due to unforeseeable circumstances Bruce looses his pair of glasses and can't get another pair. Which is fortunate for him! Because the Mad Hatter has fitted the glasses with a device to brainwash all the wearers to do his bidding and that night at midnight there is a rush of jewelry store robberies. When Batman gets ready to answer the call, Robin is nowhere to be found and the Batcycle is missing!

A fun book and story. Written and illustrated by comic industry professionals, the story and characters all have an authentic feel. Each chapter has at least one full page illustration, some even have two, the pages of pure text are broken up for the reader by using comic book style graphics, in colour, for all the sound effect words. This nicely breaks up a two page spread of text which may otherwise seem daunting to reluctant readers. Lots of fun. Batman has always been my favourite DC hero.

[Rosa Cline · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a chapter book with very few illustrations, less illustrations than some of the other chapter books in the DC Super Heroes series. Usually my special needs teen age son enjoys me reading these longer chapter books to him as long as he has illustrations he can look at while I read so I wasn't sure how he would enjoy this one. BUT because the story line was so very good he stayed with the story until the end and seemed to enjoy it. I have to admit that Super Heroes isn't always one of my favorite things to read but because my son loves them I do read them to him, and even I enjoyed this book...couldn't wait to figure out what was happening next.

This one is not only Batman but also his teen age side kick Robin. In this story Batman gives Robin a great compliment at the end of the story. Which is a great life lesson for children reading that are old enough to understand what Robin did and why Batman says what he does. Very nicely written.

[Katt Hansen · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love Batman, I've loved him forever it seems. I love the concept here, to take favorite super heroes seen in movies and TV as well as comic books, and to put them in books that encourage a child to read. What I missed in this book was the characterization that is so crucial to Batman. We had an adventure, a good story, a decent look at Tim but stopped short. I've seen deeper characterization and even voice in books of this length and for this audience before, so I know it can be done. I just wished we'd captured more of Batman in this story.

Overall, it's a good book. A good way to get your kids reading if they love superheroes. For that I would recommend this. For your diehard Batman fans though this might be a little bit disappointing. I will definitely be looking at other books in the series.

3.5 stars.

[Jennifer · Rating 2 out of 5]

Adequate. An adventure with no real depth. Good for a certain subset of reluctant ES/MS readers or a for quick, fun read.