G'day, parents and book week survivors. Let me guess. You have just received the note from school. Book week is arriving shortly. Your son has left his run until the absolute last minute, and now you are staring at the costume cupboard wondering what on earth to do. The Spiderman suit is right here to the rescue. But is it actually a good idea for book week? We are here to tell you that yes, mate, it absolutely is. And let us explain why.
The whole point of book week is to celebrate reading and to encourage kids to connect with characters from stories. Spiderman is not just a movie character. He did not start on a screen. Peter Parker was born on the page, in the pages of Marvel comics, written by Stan Lee and illustrated by Steve Ditko back in 1962. That makes Spiderman a literary character, plain and simple. Your son would be dressing as a hero from a comic book, which is a perfectly valid and wonderful form of literature.
The real beauty of sending your son as Spiderman is the genuine
