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Friday, January 28, 2011

Tiny Superheroes Don Capes and Do Good

Looks like we have some SuperSidekicks 2.0 in training! Feels like a lot of overlap between SuperGrover 2.0 and our target audience. Plus it's completely adorable. - j


"Super Cooper cannot sling webs. He does not pilot an invisible airplane, communicate telepathically with sea creatures or leap tall buildings in a single bound.

Super Cooper does possess a guileless enthusiasm, a proper red superhero's cape and an open-book approach to reporters not usually found in men of steel.

He readily told AOL News about his latest act of derring-do-good.

"We saw someone next door and we said hi. And we gave him flowers. And we tell him he could come to our school."

AOL News managed to extract the name of Super Cooper's favorite fellow caped crusader, Eliza, before Super Cooper handed the phone to his preschool teacher and returned to his toys.

Cooper Spataro, 3, and his classmates at Missoula Community School in Missoula, Mont., are "superheroes of kindness," performing weekly acts of good will that include cleaning school windows and delivering paper flowers to residents of an assisted living community.

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"I was intrigued," Burns said. "We were talking about how wonderful it would be to teach the kids to do that. At the same time, we love superheroes and we want to be superheroes, but superheroes often hit and punch. Why don't we be superheroes of kindness?"

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