The Cat Ninja series as a whole is bound to be a favorite among young readers who enjoy a good superhero/supervillain type story with some great amusing touches.Matthew Cody is the author of several popular books, including the award-winning Supers of Noble’s Green trilogy: Powerless, Super, and Villainous. The illustrations are bright, colorful, and very superhero comic-like. Squeaks) look a little bit different in some of the stories.
Their are several different illustrators for these stories, as a result the characters, especially Mr. One of the stories amusingly focuses on the mother's job of taking care of supernatural creatures as a doctor (her children think she's a regular doctor).
Squeaks (he likes to call himself Master Hamster) live with a brother, sister, and mother in an apartment, but both have their own secret lairs. The stories are short and episodic which makes the book a fun one for striving readers. The other two-thirds of the book is a collection of short comics about Cat Ninja facing off with various villains including a pair of raccoon brothers, a cockroach, a cat burglar, and a King Crab. The first third of the book is one story called "Wanted" revolving around Cat Ninja getting framed for robbing some businesses. This volume in the series is broken into several parts. This third book in the CatNinja graphic novel series offers plenty of superhero action and humor, but it also offers themes related to family and friendship. I may be heavily mistaken and the franchise might outlive me, but there are the first signs of it being below par, and either way I would call this the best spot for me to depart the series. But it never pretended to be anything other than briskly-read candy-coloured capers, and that's what we get, meaning the target audience will be happy. To my tastes, this wasn't the best way to finish – the verbosity of the main story a bit too much, and the quality of the extras not exactly as fine as their variety. If it didn't have the obvious feel of wrapping up a trilogy, it has the final beat to suggest it was what we'd been building up to, and if it wasn't for all that there's the inclusion of a whole host of other one-shot type stories, from guest contributors galore. The main story is pell-mell action, as Cat Ninja gets arrested for a crime wave, which kind of goes against all we know him for. The third full-sized book in and it looks like we might be signing off on this crime-fighting critter. My kids loved the book and would definitely recommend it. The humor in that situation is more the puns around a gassy bean than the actual acting of passing gas. The grossest humor here is a bean villain that visits the ER when his attempt to gas a town backfires, but words like "fart" aren't used here. It kept my kids engrossed without the gross-out humor that you see in some of the other popular graphic novels aimed at elementary/middle grade kids. This was our first Cat Ninja book, but my son immediately asked for us to read more. It also mixes in vocabulary words for kids to learn. If you are reading it out loud to someone younger, it's fun to do different voices for the multiple characters - especially the villains. It has fun stories, characters, and hijinks. My son gave it two thumbs up (or really "a hundred-thousand-million thumbs up"). Because it is multiple stories, it could easily be broken up into shorter readings. This kept both of my kids' attention we read it in one sitting.
Thank you to NetGalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.
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