Young Girl superhero show/book?

jeb wrote: At a little older, my son liked going through the Marvel Kids and Marvel Adventures books. Those a little more tame than the cartoons; the chibi ones are especially tame.

As for stuff on the screen, maybe KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE? She flies around.

We have some of those chibi books and I love the Hulk in there:

When he gets excited by things like sunny days and ice cream cones he turns into the mean green playin' machine!

They keep that word 'mean' in there. Even the villains are all nice guys in those things.

My son is 2.5 and he finds Brave terrifying (we saw some of it at a friends house, the bear scares him). The Incredibles can't be watched either, there's too many deaths in it. Which is too bad because I love the Incredibles and think it's brilliant. There's some stupid Christian show called Veggie tales and they have a Pirate special my son loves, they may have a superhero themed one but finding something with a female lead will be difficult. I've tried really hard to ensure my son sees women and men in all roles and walks of life. I try to ensure that he sees both sexes doing amazing things. I'm surprised at how hard it is.

The female squirrel in SpongeBob is borderline superhero in some episodes, especially the karate one (which is brilliant anyway). You may be better off just sticking with toys and letting her imagination take over. My son loves super heroes from the toys but there's nothing for him to watch either unless I fast forward through most of the film. We hyper edit things on the fly when need be.

jeb wrote: A bunch of you are rolling your eyes, I am sure, but my 6yo had to leave the class when they showed FREE WILLY at school, it was just too much. Even now they don't care for TOY STORY, at 10 and 8. With the 4yo around, the movie options are KIKI, MARY**, and TOTORO.

**Holy shit, MARY POPPINS is superheroic.

Just want to say that I'm not rolling my eyes and that's pretty much how we approach scariness/violence with our kids at this age (7 and 4) as well. Our kids only get about an hour of video a month on top of that, so we try to make sure its all positive stuff. With a couple of close members of the extended family having died in the past year, they've got enough real-world darkness to deal with.

My son is 21-months-old and his favorite movie is The Incredibles. It used to be Cars, but now he's moving on to Arthur Christmas. All kids are different.

At 2 my daughter was obsessed with Godzilla, and has never shied away from superhero violence, but The Witches and Wizard of Oz are still terrifying at age 7. Some kids are just born with Ameritrash in them.

ubarose wrote: Maybe "Tiny Titans" and/or "Superman Family Adventures." I don't think they ever made TV shows of them, but you could read them together.

I asked my daughter she mentioned the earlier versions of Teen Titans or Super Friends. She might need a couple of years before Teen Titans.

We also talked about Tangled vs. Brave vs. Frozen (which we saw opening night last week). All three were pretty good Disney stories.

Older Spawns ranking:
1. Tangled
2. Brave and Frozen tied

Younger Spawn ranking:
1. Frozen
2. Tangled
3. Brave

Tangled had the overall best charters and most humor. Brave looked the best and had the best lead character. Frozen was overall good but had some flaws. Frozen wasn't scary but the plot maybe a little complex for the real young kids 4-6 years.

I read these to my daughter. They were a big hit and she still talks about them 10 years later.

For silly fun, I would recommend Teen Titans Go!

For something with a great story even adults will enjoy, Avatar: The Last Airbender .

I was going to recommend Avatar The Last Airbender then I remembered it was the absolute worst movie of the year. Brutal to sit through.