Super Kena

CHILDREN'S BOOK

A Girl Made Fierce with Hearing Aids

Celebrate diversity and inclusion with this super story!

Join the mission to spread awareness and inspire young readers.

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Ella's Way Award Winner

“Super Kena: A Girl Made Fierce with Hearing Aids has been recognized by Ella’s Way Book Awards for its uplifting message, inclusive storytelling, and celebration of what makes each child unique. The story is a safe place for children to see courage, kindness, and confidence come to life through a superhero who reminds them that being different can also be powerful.”

— Sherry Cerino, CEO & Founder of Ella’s Way Book Awards

Reader’s Favorite gives Super Kena book a 5 Star Rating!

“Super Kena: A Girl Made Fierce with Hearing Aids is an uplifting children’s book by Becky Cymbaluk with illustrations by Zuzana Svobodova. Kena is a courageous young girl who wears hearing aids to help her hear. Some of her classmates do not understand this and tease Kena and others in her class for seeming to be different. With support and encouragement from her mother, Kena decides to show her classmates how she and her fellow students are strengthened and made more powerful by their challenges.”

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Teacher's pick

Amazon Teachers' Pick

Thanks to feedback from hundreds of teachers, this is a curated list of incredible books for readers K-8th grade to inspire a lifelong love of reading. Young readers can learn from home with books that represent diverse voices, new authors, kid favorites and early reading titles. 

The Wishing Shelf Book Awards Finalist

“Super Kena: A Girl Made Fierce with Hearing Aids was named a 2022 Finalist in The Wishing Shelf Book Awards, an international independent book award program created to recognize excellence in independent publishing.

This recognition celebrates the heart, message, and quality of Super Kena, a children’s book written by Becky Cymbaluk and illustrated by Zuzana Svobodova. The story encourages children to be brave, kind, confident, and proud of what makes them unique.

With its uplifting superhero theme and positive representation of a young girl with hearing aids, Super Kena continues to inspire young readers to see themselves as strong, capable, and fierce.”

What people say?

Super Kena is a children’s book, written by Becky Cymbaluk and illustrated by Zuzana Svobodová, which tells the story of a little girl with a hearing loss. After Kena has a bad day at school when the other children tease her for her hearing aids, her mother explains to her that they tease her because they just don’t understand the importance of Kena’s hearing aids. Those hearing aids give her ears super powers! The two of them point out differences in some of the other students, and Kena gets the idea to start a team of super heroes.

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A Lynn PowersOfficial OnlineBookClub.org review
A delightfully entertaining picture book for children ages 4-8, "Super Kena - A Girl Made Fierce With Hearing Aids" is unreservedly recommended for families, daycare centers, preschools, elementary schools, and community library picture book collections in general, and Children's Special Needs Books in particular.
Midwest Book ReviewReviewer's Choice
“Finally! A perfect book is released that addresses all ABILITIES and teaches kids that they are all more alike than different. Super Kena is the new age Super Hero for all kids. The author has taken a sensitive subject and made all of her readers feel like Super Heroes! I love this book and it will be my new go-to book for kids!”
Renee’ RongenAward winning Author, International Speaker
“Whether you’re trying to teach your child empathy for other people’s differences, or have a child who is differently-abled who needs to know they aren’t alone, Super Kena is here to save the day! With a relatable story and charming illustrations, Super Kena is a fantastic story for children and families to enjoy over and over again.”
Leanne CreamerVirtual Assistant and Toddler Mom
"As an elementary school teacher, I am always on the look-out for books that are mirrors and windows for my students. Students need to see themselves in books – books read to them or read by them – to empower themselves. They also need to be able to look out in the world, beyond themselves, to understand other people. This book offers both mirrors and windows. I love how Kena was able to look beyond herself to her classmates who were differently-abled and pull them into a team! Kena is an inspiration! Share this book with your children, grandchildren, neighbors, students, nieces and nephews . . . the list goes on and on. It will make a difference in our world!”
Jodi CarterEducator since 1984

A Girl Made Fierce with Hearing Aids

Fierceness comes in many forms, but Super Kena’s fierceness arrives in the form of powerful determination.  

When kids at school make fun of her hearing aids, Kena gets a super idea. She will gather her differently-abled classmates to create a team of super heroes!  

There’s Amazing Anna, whose glasses give her perfect vision. An insulin pump helps Watchful Wendy fight her diabetes. Using his super wheelchair to zip around is Zippy Zach. Quiet Quinn battles his stutter with the help of a speech teacher. A food allergy is no match for Precise Priya, who always makes sure to be careful around peanuts. And Determined Danny can run as fast as the wind with the power of his asthma inhaler! 

 Together they use their unique super powers to make a difference in the world by spreading understanding and acceptance . . .  one classroom at a time. 

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