Book Review: The Boy Who Breathed Underwater by Izzy Rees @rararesources

Blurb

When lying in his bed, a boy is visited by a genie. He is given a week to try out different superhero powers. What adventures will he have, and which power will he choose to keep?

Review

I read The Boy Who Breathed Underwater with my five-year-old son, I have found out one thing since having a son, they love superheroes and are always pretending to have different superpowers. In this book the little boy is just the same, if he had a superpower, he didn’t know which one he would choose, so he wished he could try out some superpowers to see which was best.
A genie granted his wish, every day he had a different superhero power to try.
This was such a fun book to read, every power had pros and cons to it and we were both laughing at certain points during the book.
It was written in rhyme, and the illustrations were fantastic, my son was pointing out what was happening before I had even finished the words on the page.
What we decided at the end of the story was that superhero powers may look fun but there are consequences and perhaps the reason real people don’t have superhero powers is that it’s more fun to play and pretend to have them.

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Author Bio

Izzy Rees was born in West London but has spent the last thirty years living in Derby. Ten years ago, when her three girls were young, she began work on a series of rhyming picture books, created in snatched moments, and initially written on small scraps of paper or whatever was available. She always intended to revisit them, and Covid and lockdown presented the opportunity; unable to continue her work as a neurophysiotherapist, working with vulnerable patients, she decided it was now or never! She has written six books so far in the ‘The Boy Who’ series, The Boy Who Breathed Underwater being the first one. The others will be published in the near future.