The world we live in needs superheroes to save it from destruction and DC Comics’ Wonder Woman is one such superhero who fights for the good and against evil. She has majestic powers and weapons that she uses at appropriate time, but do we know how she got them? What made her switch to Wonder Woman from being an Amazonian princess? Wonder Woman An Origin Story answers all your queries and tells you all there is to know about this member of the Justice League.

The best thing about this book is its simple narrative that is easier to understand than searching the internet. According to this book, Diana was born to Amazonian Queen Hippolyta, who ruled the island of Themyscira fairly.

The island was hidden from the ‘outside world’ and was home to female warriors who were more skilled than most men in our world. However, when tragedy struck the outside world, the Queen decided to send her best warrior to save them and forbade her own daughter, Diana, from participating in the competition.

But Diana being Diana, she participated wearing a disguise and came out as a winner … and why shouldn’t she. On her birth, she was gifted numerous powers from Greek gods — Zeus gave her strength, Hermes’ speed, Aphrodite’s beauty and Athena’s wisdom. She used all these when she was in our world because here, Ares controlled the men who had to be convinced to give up war, for peace by Diana now known as Wonder Woman.

What makes Wonder Woman different to any other superhero? According to this book, when she won the ‘Wonder Woman’ costume as the trophy of the competition, she was given a special tiara, a pair of unbreakable silver bracelets that can deflect bullets and lasers to name a few; a lasso of truth that can make even the worse of people speak the truth and an invisible jet to travel from her home to the outside world without being followed.

You also get to know more about Wonder Woman in the ‘Everything to Know About Wonder Woman’ section followed by the ‘Discussion Questions’ that invite you to answer what you have gained through this book. Interesting, isn’t it?

Published in Dawn, Young World, October 7th, 2017