Author M.T. Sanders has written numerous children’s picture books and a memoir featuring Monty, a Newfoundland dog, who unfortunately recently crossed that rainbow bridge. Mighty Monty is his latest book featuring Monty, though this one is aimed at more middle-grade children.
In this highly amusing and comical story, we meet Monty and his fellow dog brothers and sisters whilst they are out for a walk. Whilst trying to stop one of the Spangles from falling into a deep hole, Monty and the Spangle Molly both tumble in it and are knocked out.
They awake in a secret bunker where Monty is told that K9HQ have been watching him for some time and that they want to give him a superpower as they like to make all dogs with the right temperament and character a superhero. They then let Monty choose his own power.
After thinking for a long time Monty decides that he wants k9indness to be his superpower, though I don’t think he thought that his k9indness would be distributed by firing particles from his backside in a process called F.A.R.T.
From the brief description above you can tell how wonderfully silly and humorous this book is. However, it is also filled to the brim with lovely moments and messages about kindness that hopefully children will adopt and share with others.
I loved this book, with its adorable canine characters and adventure-filled story Mighty Monty was simply a delight to read. It is also filled with beautiful black and white illustrations throughout that bring the words to life.