If you read the first cat in space book, then you know exactly what to expect from the second. How ever these books do work as a standalone. I find it funny that the books are about the first cat in space, but particularly this book the cat didn’t do much. There might have been 10 meows in the entire story. In the story, the queen has been poisoned, and she must go find a cure. And the toenail cutting computer is trying to find a new life. This book is full of sight gags, and fun for the age that is meant for it. Fans of Dogman, Wimpy Kid and other like graphic novels will thoroughly enjoy this. 

 

This book was fantastic and exactly what you want when looking for a horror graphic novel. There are some people that upon falling asleep create sleepwalkers or bring them forth. Sleepwalkers are a bad thing. They are almost a type of demon, whose goal is death and destruction. It turns out that most the people who can do this were from a genetic experiment. However, there is one girl, Terry, who is a natural sleepwalker ever since an accident and it has put her on the run for her life. This book is a great first volume. It moves quickly. The story is succinct, makes sense, but also leaves you wanting the next volume. Trigger warning as there is blood that’s assault and everything you expect to find in a horror novel. 

 

This book was thoroughly engrossing and ended way too soon. Andy is a kid with narcolepsy.  He falls asleep at the drop of a hat. It impacts his life with his friends and with his grandmother. One day while sleeping, he exits his dreams into the dream factory that’s helping cause them and learns a little bit about the dreamworld. This book very much reminds me of The Phantom Tollbooth. It’s the way the story is told and the emotions behind it that have that nonsensical but makes perfect sense type of storytelling. The graphics are amazing and make one think of a Pixar movie. In fact, I would love to see this fully animated. The only negative is that it ends with a cliffhanger, and I desperately need book 2. 

 

This is an interesting graphic novel. It’s for second grade and above, and it starts out with a bunch of unicorns making friends with moles. However, as the unicorns age they keep leaving the moles out of things, or thinking that they’re better than the moles, and one day the moles have had enough and want to break free. Their plan backfires and the moles end up trapped underground for a very long time. The same time you’re reading this story you’re learning about Sparkles and Death who are the very best of friends. Sparkles knows he hast to get to a very specific dance party if, they want to become a Unicorn/Uniman proper. They are part of this that I don’t particularly like because it’s a version of slavery. And there’s nothing to acknowledge it at the end. It’s very now we’re happy, let’s forget the past. There’s no real bridge between the two time periods in the book. I did like it but it’s not a book I would recommend frequently. I liked the way the author told the story I love the illustrations and I think the flow worked. It’s the story that didn’t. 

 

This book is extremely lacking. It doesn’t even mention Mozart’s death until the info bits at the end. This book so glosses over Mozart that it’s almost useless, except for the mention of Mozart’s sister. Now that it’s someone I’d like to see a little people big world book about. 

 

This is a re-print of a book from 1969. The artwork feels a product of its time, which means it’s fresh, new, and exciting for modern audiences. This is a simple story of what do cats do at night. It plays up how cats can see better at night than human does. You’ll have one illustration that shows everything dark and asks the reader to guess what the cat is doing or seeing and then the next illustration is what the cat is doing or seeing all in bright colors. It really works for the time and the age that it’s written for and in essence it’s timeless and can be love generation to generation. 

 

As with the rest of the books in the series it was completely wonderful. This is an A-to-Z book, however, it’s not short and it’s not simple. It reminds the reader and the parents that it’s OK to make mistakes. That sometimes you need to walk away. And that there are zillions of things you can imagine. Just put it to use and try. This book is just as wonderful as the rest of the books and series that will stay on library shelves for years to come. 

 

This would make a fantastic book review book. This is one of those picture books that’s written for second or third grade and is considerably long for it’s 36 pages. This is the story of a spotted owl who is rescued as a little fluff ball and goes on to live and breed and become a scientific case study as people help save the population of spotted owls. This book is full of wonderfully fantastic information if not a little long and dense. 

 

Ben Hatke could not write a bad book if he tried. While his books are meant for kids, they pull at the heartstrings of all ages. In this book we follow Milo as he searches for his baby sibling’s sock. Milo and his family have just moved into the new house and the basement is a tad bit scary. This basement isn’t just scary. It’s crazy. It’s crazy big and Milo meet some new fantastic friends. They are very few words in this book. And it doesn’t need them. Ben creates not just a story, but a heart gladdening tale that you hope there’s a sequel to. This book is adventure from beginning to end and love from one scene to the next. In my eyes Ben Hatke can do no wrong and this is just another of his five star reads. 

 

I really wanted to like this, but I am DNFing at 25%. I imagine this book was going to be a modern retelling of Dan Quixote but in the first quarter of the book we have a young woman and her grandfather telling her stories about being a knight. Everybody considers him crazy both in his family and around his neighborhood. Eight years later, Lucia is still into the ideas of knights in shining armor and grand adventures. This that gets her into trouble. Her age is hard to guess probably between 13 and 15 considering the story starts out eight years ago. I think the reason that the first quarter of this book annoys me is that Lucia is always in trouble. She’s in trouble for being an imaginative child. She’s in trouble for being rambunctious. And then the adults around here are just so annoying. There’s one scene where Lucy it goes to do her knightly business and help somebody who’s being bullied, she runs into a water tower and causes it to fall over. This gets her in trouble with the mayor, which gets her in trouble with her parents, and her parents have to do time volunteering to help pay for the mayors car that was hurt destroyed by the falling water tower. At the same time they also have to hide Lucia’s grandmother, who is undocumented. What annoys me about this book is there is no way one child running into a water tower lake can cause the water tower to fall. If it did, they would be a much bigger problem and the mayor wouldn’t be mad at the parents. Parents will be suing the mayor. I went into this book expecting an out of this world, crazy adventure tale, but this book is already unbelievable and far-fetched in the most annoying way. I have no desire to finish this tail. The world is coded as evil and cruel and nothing good.  If that is the case, why would it be worth saving.