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Shazam!: Freddy's Guide to Super Hero-ing
Shazam! is coming to theaters in Spring 2019 from Warner Bros. Pictures, starring Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Mark Strong, Jack Dylan Grazer, and more. This full-color paperback features 144 pages of entertaining notes, journal entries, and exclusive, never-before-seen photos! In this jam-packed guide, follow Shazam and his best friend Freddy as they take you through everything you need (and ever wanted) to know about being a real super hero. With entries from both Freddy and Shazam, the guide provides you with step-by-step instructions, from flight tests to high-tech suits. This imaginative guide is sure to be a hit with fans of the hilarious DC character.
144 pages, Paperback
Published February 26, 2019
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September 10, 2023
Freddy's Guide to Super Hero-ing is a very by-the-numbers in-universe guidebook. It's clearly aimed at little kids (even more-so than other DC Extended Universe tie-in books and journals) and hits the expected points: Listing off various DCEU heroes, ranking their powers, summarizing early parts of the Shazam! movie, and explaining Shazam's origin, what his name means, and what he can do.
It's all written very simplistically, with lots of bits that sound more like they're supposed to be a kid's inner monologue than something they would actually write. It's cool to get perspective from Freddy instead of Shazam himself, but the guide is very short and doesn't shine much light on anything beyond what you'd get from watching the movie. And unlike the best in-universe journals, everything from notes to food wrappers is just a picture printed on the page. There are no physically interactable elements here.
There are also some parts that seem like they're supposed to function more like an activity book -- end-of-section quizzes, invitations to list or rank things yourself on the page, and a few blank pages for you to take your own notes on at the end. I can't imaging anyone but the smallest children enjoying this though.
Freddy's Guide to Super Hero-ing is basically a bland nothingness. It adds nothing interesting to the movie, and your kid can probably read it in one sitting on the way back from the bookstore (or immediately after opening the package). But it's also not terrible; it's just unmemorable. And if you want to get a kid a book that ties in to the first Shazam movie, you don't really have many options.
It's all written very simplistically, with lots of bits that sound more like they're supposed to be a kid's inner monologue than something they would actually write. It's cool to get perspective from Freddy instead of Shazam himself, but the guide is very short and doesn't shine much light on anything beyond what you'd get from watching the movie. And unlike the best in-universe journals, everything from notes to food wrappers is just a picture printed on the page. There are no physically interactable elements here.
There are also some parts that seem like they're supposed to function more like an activity book -- end-of-section quizzes, invitations to list or rank things yourself on the page, and a few blank pages for you to take your own notes on at the end. I can't imaging anyone but the smallest children enjoying this though.
Freddy's Guide to Super Hero-ing is basically a bland nothingness. It adds nothing interesting to the movie, and your kid can probably read it in one sitting on the way back from the bookstore (or immediately after opening the package). But it's also not terrible; it's just unmemorable. And if you want to get a kid a book that ties in to the first Shazam movie, you don't really have many options.
April 14, 2019
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August 3, 2023
your typical kids' book as expected but yielded some funny tidbits about freddy for fic fodder
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