Happy Birthday, Bad Kitty

yukos - This book is the series of the "Bad Kitty". This is the series of the "Bad Kitty" but you don't really have to read from the beginning of the story. Because each book are talking about the different stories. So for this book, it is talking about the bad kitty's birthday party. So the whole story will be about bad kitty's birthday party. Other series will be talking about the different story like bat kitty taking bath or going to school. For this story, they have the bad kitty's birthday party and they will invite other cats from neighbors and meet together. In the bad kitty's house, they have a dog and bad kitty doesn't really like that dog. So bad kitty always trying to avoid the dog. And in this story it will happen the same thing. Bad kitty try to avoid the dog some troubles will happen. I think this "Bad kitty" series is very funny and I won't feel bored when I read this. So I will appreciate everyone to read this awesome book!!

September 7, 2009
In the second early chapter book starring this perennial sourpuss, Bad Kitty's day starts off with a special alphabetical “Birthday Breakfast” that includes Aardvark Bagels, Clam Doughnuts and Eel Fritters. Each chapter focuses on a different part of the day's festivities (Bad Kitty is excited about the prospect of presents, but less so about looking through an old photo album and decorating the house). Eventually, some aptly named guests such as Strange Kitty, Chatty Kitty and Stinky Kitty arrive, and the story becomes a whodunit when Bad Kitty's presents vanish and the prime suspect ends up being the lovable slow-wit, Puppy. The appearance of Bad Kitty's Mama, who sports a pearl necklace and a vacuous expression, offers—briefly—a softer side of the feline. Bruel has fun with the format, using footnotes, different font sizes, comedic/informative interludes about cat behavior (“Uncle Murray's Fun Facts”) and lengthy side stories that take place in corner panels to add to the story's freewheeling atmosphere. But as usual, it's Bad Kitty's unapologetic, curmudgeon nature that delivers the laugh-out-loud funny. Ages 7–10.

November 1, 2009
Gr 1-3-Bad Kitty is back for another adventure, and children who have met this cantankerous feline in her previous outings know that a typical birthday celebration just won't do. Kitty "helps" with the decorations, "welcomes" the guests, and gets the best gift of all in a surprise visitor at the disastrous party's end. Bruel's fast-paced humor is just right for the beginning chapter book set, and the interplay of the text with the comic black-and-white illustrations ratchets up the zaniness level. "Uncle Murray's Fun Facts" sections sprinkled throughout offer facts about why cats sleep, scratch, and engage in odd behaviors, and an appendix tells more about each of the breeds represented by Bad Kitty's party guests. A frenzied fusion of fiction and nonfiction with plenty of appeal for young readers."Kathleen Kelly MacMillan, Carroll County Public Library, MD"

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