Book Set · 5 books · Ages 3 to 6

The Little Capes Set

Five little superhero stories where kindness is the superpower: no fighting, just helping.

What's inside

“Capes on, let's help!” The hero's scarf becomes a little cape, and the powers are all about helping: super-hearing to find a shy crab, a big bounce to catch runaway balloons, capes that glow to walk the mice home.

No villains, no masks, no fighting. At the end, the capes fold back into snug scarves.

  • Superhero fans who are still small
  • Helping, sharing and working together
  • Calm endings, so it still works at bedtime
The Little Capes: gentle helper heroes. An iPad shows a pop-up orchard where a fox and a duckling help Grandpa Badger count party balloons.

The 5 books

Each one pops up over six pages, is read aloud with your child's names in it, and has two choices along the way and a pin to earn at the end.

  • Cover of The Runaway Balloons: a bear in a little cape, a duckling and Grandpa Badger in an orchard, with party balloons floating up past the trees.

    The Runaway Balloons

    The mice's party balloons float off into the orchard, and the friends put on their very first capes and bounce up to bring every one home.

  • Cover of The Hiccup Hunt: a unicorn in a cape and a hamster in a bluebell wood, with a little red crab among the flowers.

    The Hiccup Hunt

    Pip the crab has the hiccups and is too shy to come to the picnic, so the friends put on their capes and use their super-hearing to follow the hics through the bluebell wood.

  • Cover of The Tidy Whirl: a kitten and a hedgehog in capes and Ollie the otter beside a picnic table on a riverbank.

    The Tidy Whirl

    The party things have all gone, and the friends follow the clues to Ollie the otter, who washed everything to help: together they sort the muddle with a tidy whirl.

  • Cover of The Thirsty Garden: a fox in a cape, a turtle and Grandpa Hoot the owl in a dry garden with sunflowers, while a grey rain cloud waits over the hills.

    The Thirsty Garden

    Grandpa Hoot's garden is thirsty and the rain cloud is stuck over the far hills, so the friends put on their capes, walk up to the hilltop and send the cloud sailing home.

  • Cover of The Night-Light Walk: a bunny in a cape, a turtle and Ollie the otter lead a line of little mice home under the stars, past a glowing old oak.

    The Night-Light Walk

    At twilight five little mice must walk home to the old oak, so the friends' capes glow like night-lights, Ollie the otter knows the way, and they count everyone home to bed.

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Requires iPad (9th generation) or newer.

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