In this delightful book of comic vignettes, readers get to know Cath and her dad as they navigate being the caretakers of their fluffy, exuberant kitty, Sushi. From outdoor adventures to cat-food dilemmas, as well as the dreaded trip to the veterinarian, Sushi experiences it all, along with a lot of love and snuggles from his humans. This cute and easy-to-pick-up story will delight anyone who gets a kick out of cats and their hilarious antics. A fun romp through the daily life of Sushi the cat and the humans who love him.
01/10/2020
Gr 3–5—With this collection of page-long vignettes, Cazenove chronicles the daily adventures of a young girl named Cat, her dad, and Sushi, their spry orange tabby. The author mines humor from the mundane—in one scene, no matter how many times Sushi goes through his cat door, he can't seem to get back inside (the final panel reveals that the door to the house is open, with Cat's dad giggling at the confused feline). Sushi's constant scratching of everything from furniture to the wallpaper provides another running gag; on one page, based on all the claw marks, the mailman assumes that Cat and her father own multiple cats. A muted palette pleasingly complements the silly if somewhat uninspired narrative. With action lines aplenty, Cazenove's energetic drawings flow into one another without any hard borders, encouraging readers to plow through this fluffy book stuffed with every manner of cat clichés, feline puns, and kitty jokes, though the text may be a little small for some readers. All characters appear to be white, except for one cutaway gag that depicts an Asian character located "in a distant land," who wears wooden sandals and is accompanied by a yin-yang symbol, a lucky cat statue, and a Buddha statue. This unfortunate and unnecessary mash-up of Chinese and Japanese culture does a disservice to this otherwise enjoyable work. VERDICT A quick read for cat lovers, though Georgia Dunn's "Breaking Cat News Adventures" books are a much richer take on the hilarious absurdities of cat ownership.—Amy M. Laughlin, Ferguson Library, Stamford, CT
” Move over Garfield, there is a sassy new orange kitty in town. Each graphic-format page is styled with small, mostly borderless bubblelike panels and relies on a barrage of episodic sight gags with a high-energy palette of sugary pinks, cheerful blues, and citrusy greens. Imagination runs unfettered, from both Cat’s and Sushi’s perspectives. Cat fans should find plenty to purr about.”
-Kirkus
“In this delightful book of comic vignettes, readers get to know Cath and her dad as they navigate being the caretakers of their fluffy, exuberant kitty, Sushi. From outdoor adventures to cat-food dilemmas, as well as the dreaded trip to the veterinarian, Sushi experiences it all, along with a lot of love and snuggles from his humans. This cute and easy-to-pick-up story will delight anyone who gets a kick out of cats and their hilarious antics. A fun romp through the daily life of Sushi the cat and the humans who love him.”
– Booklist
2019-11-10
Move over Garfield, there is a sassy new orange kitty in town.
In this abundantly cute French import, Cat, a young girl with gravity-defying salmon-hued pigtails, lives with her single father and their mischievous, apricot-striped cat, Sushi. As seen in a series of rib-tickling, mostly one-page vignettes, Sushi engages in all the lovably predictable kitty behavior feline aficionados would expect: scratching up the walls and curtains and commandeering the best seat in the house. In one memorable episode, Cat tries unsuccessfully to keep Sushi from clawing the carpet and consequently angering her father, so she conspicuously rearranges the room to hide the offending spots, leaving the living room in comic disarray. Each graphic-format page is styled with small, mostly borderless bubblelike panels and relies on a barrage of episodic sight gags with a high-energy palette of sugary pinks, cheerful blues, and citrusy greens. Imagination runs unfettered, from both Cat's and Sushi's perspectives. Sushi is an indoor cat (with only the occasional jaunt through his cat door), so most of his adventures are rather insular and almost exclusively involve only Cat and her father, who are both white. The few additional humans depicted are mostly white and usually slender.
Cat fans should find plenty to purr about. (Graphic fiction. 7-10)
