Book Review: DC's Wonder Woman

By John Rodgers

September is a WONDERful time for Sequoyah Regional Library System. It’s Library Card Signup Month, a time to reflect on the role libraries serve as places of lifelong learning and continuous access to information. To showcase the superpowers that come with a library card, libraries across the U.S. have selected DC’s Wonder Woman as this year’s honorary chair. Since her first appearance in 1941, the iconic heroine’s adventures have spanned generations of stories, many of which can be enjoyed for free from the library.

It still comes as a surprise to many that libraries carry graphic novels in addition to “regular books.” Any reading is good reading. Luckily, readers of any age can accompany Wonder Woman (WW) on whichever medium or format they prefer. Parents looking for an age-appropriate dose of super heroism for early learners can pick up titles like Wonder Woman: An Origin Story by John Sazaklis and Luciano Vecchio or Wonder Woman to the Rescue by Courtney Carbone and Erik Doescher, using the library’s contact-free Sequoyah Sidewalk Service, or borrow eBook versions from eRead Kids on the library’s website.

Tweens and teens will enjoy Lisa Yee’s Wonder Woman at Super Hero High, the first in a six-part series of chapter books that casts the DC characters as “superheroes-in-training” during high school.

Teen and adult readers can find a retelling of WW’s origin story in Leigh Bardugo’s Warbringer, which the library owns in novel and graphic novel versions. These titles are available from Sequoyah Regional Library System in print or as eBooks and audiobooks by logging into OverDrive, the Libby app, or eRead Kids with a library card.

Whether experienced as novels, graphic novels, in print, or digitally, the adventures of Wonder Woman offer enough fun to power an invisible jet and are a perfect excuse to apply for a library card this September to celebrate the right to read.