Jesse Leon McCann is an American comic book and children's book author. He wrote most of the stories for the Pinky and the Brain comic series, edited two out of the four Simpsons episode guides, and wrote all of the Smiley the Psychotic Button comics for Chaos! Comics. McCann's Shrek II movie adaptation novel made the New York Times Best Selling Children's Book list in 2005. While McCann mostly scribes comic books and children's books, he has written for a variety of genres in different forms (such as the Austin Powers trivia game).
I love Batman. And I love encouraging literacy. So this seemed like a great combo. But honestly this book falls into the trap that too many early literacy books do by sucking the entire plot dry for the sake of simple sentences. There is no good reason that a sentence can't be simple and also interesting. This was a dry and repetitive read. Even if I was a kid that LOVED Batman, I would feel like I got tricked if I read this.