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2017-04-24T14:09:21-07:00Chris Evans to Read Bedtime Story for KidsCaptain America star Chris Evans is following in the footsteps of Tom Hardy and has signed up to read a bedtime story on CBeebies. Hardy has been a massive hit with parents watching with their children. Evans said he was "honoured" to be the next guest on "such a special show". "I hope families have as much fun watching as I had reading," he said. The Avengers actor will read Even Superheroes Have Bad Days. The book by Shelly Becker and Eda Kaban shows children how to cope when they are feeling overwhelmed by their feelings. Evans will tell the tale of how they can channel their energies like superheroes. Read the rest of this article at BBC. Chris Evans has starred in Captain America and The Avengers, as well as in a few non-superhero films.

As the BBC’s parental-respite service continues its fine tradition of giving mums something pretty to look at, we ask who can follow Captain America

Chris Evans is going to read a CBeebies Bedtime Story soon. Actual Captain America, from all three thousand Captain America films, will sit down and lull the nation’s toddlers to sleep with a sonorous reading of Even Superheroes Have Bad Days by Shelly Becker and Eda Kaban on 10 May.

Admittedly this is probably more interesting to parents than toddlers. My two-year-old, largely speaking, doesn’t care about the box office grosses of the people reading stories to him. He’s over the moon if they happen to be softly spoken and sincere like Nadiya Hussain from the Great British Bake Off, and actively less over the moon when, say, David Hasselhoff ends up bellowing a broken assembly line of words that sound as if...