Pizazz vs The Demons

By Sophy Henn

The fourth book in a SUPER (like, actually, with powers and stuff) new series for readers aged 7+  from the amazingly talented illustrator and author Sophy Henn! Brimming with Sophy's hilarious illustrations, this is the perfect read for fans of Dork Diaries, Tom Gates, Amelia Fang, Wimpy Kid and Dog Man.

HELLO! My name is Pizazz. As a 9½-year-old superhero, I have a LOT going on. And thanks to super baddie CopyCat and her SuperPower Duplicator™, I now have FIVE Demon Pizazzes to deal with. Five.

‘How are you going to defeat yourself, Pizazz?’ I hear you ask. Well, that’s a good question!

Praise for Pizazz:
“A SPECTACULAR superhero story that fizzes with fun on every page!” – Liz Pichon, author of the bestselling TOM GATES series.
“Blocky comic-style panels, a fire-farting granddad and a conservationist message make for accessible, quirky reading” – The Guardian, Children’s Book of the Month
“Sophy Henn’s funny new series […] a witty and original reminder that superheroes are human too” – The Sunday Times, Children’s Book of the Week
“Sophy Henn’s lively, energetic story should be a hit with anyone who finds it hard to fit in” –  Financial Times 
“Full-page illustrations, comic-strip sequences, quirky typography and dramatic chapter openers ensure this book will appeal to more reluctant readers” – The i
“Perfect for fans of her previous series Bad Nana, with the same level of illustration and zany text throughout” – Booktrust

Hilariously narrated by reluctant superhero Pizazz, and brimming with Sophy Henn’s distinctive illustrations and comic-book strips, this is the fourth book in the laugh-out-loud PIZAZZ series! Look out for more Pizazz adventures: Pizazz, Pizazz Vs The New Kid and Pizazz Vs Perfecto!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Release date: Mar 3, 2022
• ISBN: 9781398505810

Sophy Henn

Sophy Henn is an award-winning picture book author and illustrator with a master’s in illustration from the University of Brighton. She is the creator of the much-loved Bad Nana series, the Pom Pom series, the Ted board book series, and the nonfiction titles Lifesize and Lifesize Dinosaurs, among others. Her debut picture book Where Bear? was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal and shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. Sophy was the World Book Day Illustrator in 2015 and 2016.

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Cover: Pizazz vs The Demons, by Sophy Henn

‘A Spectacular Superhero Story that Fizzes with Fun on Every Page!’ Liz Pichon

Pizazz vs The Demons

Sophy Henn

Pizazz vs The Demons, by Sophy Henn, UK Children's

Hi.

My name is

PIZAZZ, and I am 9 ½

(for at least another month, I think)

and

I am

Yes, I do realise that sounds very BIG-HEADED and quite a bit SHOW-OFFY of me, but it really isn’t.

I might occasionally be rather proud of my AMAZING nail varnish collection (85% BLACK, 15% very nearly BLACK), and I do like my hair (I mean, how could you not?), but the fact that I am SUPER really is NOT one of my favourite things about me. This is because when I say SUPER I don’t mean BRILL or FAB or GREAT. What I mean is that…

…I am a

SUPERHERO.

Like this lot.

Except also NOT.

And, trust me, being SUPER REALLY isn’t ANYTHING to SHOW OFF about – it’s actually quite rubbish. Every time we defeat a BADDIE, another one pops up, and it’s usually just as my favourite TV programme has started, or just as I’ve painted my nails, or just as I have washed my hair and need to dry it properly (not have it dry naturally while I WHIZZ about saving Earth, so it goes all FUNNY and then I can’t do A THING with it).

And I definitely don’t want to SHOW OFF my (not so) SUPER POWER. I actually want to do the exact opposite and never have to use it ever again. Especially not in public. What is my SUPER POWER? Well, imagine the most embarrassing thing EVER and then times it by 100… THAT’S what it is.

Because while my family are all fairly normal SUPERHEROES, with normal SUPERHERO costumes and normal SUPERHERO powers, for some BRILLIANT*

reason I got the weirdest SUPER POWER EVER, the strangest name in the HISTORY of SUPERHEROES, and then there’s my costume. I mean, LOOK!