be released worldwide next month.

The film stars Chadwick Boseman playing Marvel's breakthrough black superhero T'Challa, a king of a fictional African nation who first featured in the company's comic books in the late 1960s.

Luke Cage, another popular black Marvel superhero, has also had a recent revival through a popular TV series on Netflix.

But Asian superheroes are still comparatively rare in the Marvel universe despite the franchise's growing popularity there.

In the Philippines, a former US colony, Marvel is already deeply ingrained in the nation's popular culture, said Cebulski.

Filipino illustrators in turn have also provided art for Marvel comics since the 1970s.

People from the Southeast Asian nation are now the third largest nationality of artists employed by Marvel, just behind Americans and Italians, Cebulski said.accelerated and maximised.

Once children progress through the PM books, they are challenged with a variety of texts and genres, ranging from modern fiction to classic texts. The Library is structured so that pupils move into Young Readers, then Independent Readers and finally into Free Readers. The library also stocks a wide range of non fiction material.

Reading is also taught formally through Shared Reading and through small group reading sessions. Specific reading skills such as prediction, deduction, inference and summarising are taught, as well as the use of sentence structures and vocabulary choices.