Bad Kitty School Daze by Nick Bruel
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

As I try to navigate through what is available these days for young people (apparently the intent), I pick up what I come across. This got put before me, so I read it. Never more than after this do I pity the folks slogging through nasty stuff like this and thinking this is child worthy.

This would’ve been better presented as text than with the horrible art attached. The drawings are inconsistent and the person illustrating flips the card of lack of training with the near entire lack of setting. The characters, or whatever that is drawn, are so inconsistent and poorly rendered. The cat is a swipe of ‘Bloom County’s ‘Bill the Cat’. Unfortunately, the illustrator shows little to no ability to present an illustrated story. Knowing the history of children’s literature, how this found a publisher is baffling.

I wrote that this would be better as just text. That would be true, if a coherent story was attached. Instead the plot involves a cat presumed bad and sent to a school. The reasoning for this is barely explained. The school is also left to the imagination except for a name on a page. This goes on involving shoddy writing about interactions among those in the class and situations trod far too many times in various media.

The best written parts are asides that are mostly text that don’t connect well with the over all story.

There’s a short comic book-like few page story that is supposed to look crudely drawn. These pages are the best rendered of the lot. Story is typical bad guys versus good guys stuff involving the characters seen in the story preceding.

Of all the children’s books out there, parents are advised to choose on of the hundreds of thousands available better than this.

Bottom line: i don’t recommend this book. 2 out of ten points.

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