It's time! Fast Five Fiction has returned after it's brief hiatus! Each week I'll share five fiction books: new books, notable books, books around a common theme. This month, we're celebrating National Cat Month in the children's department so I'm sharing some of our most popular graphic novel and chapter book series featuring feline characters!
Click the title to be directed to the book in our catalog. Book descriptions are from Goodreads.
Breaking Cat News graphic novels by Georgia Dunn
This series is so good, one of our adult book clubs recently read it and enjoyed it!
This just in: Three adorable house cats are reporting the most hilarious breaking news! Based on author/illustrator Georgia Dunn's real life pets, Elvis, Lupin, and Puck strap on neckties and pick up microphones to provide the most up-to-date relevant news stories (at least according to them).
Cats reporting on the news that matters to cats with stories such as The Vacuum Cleaner Is Back!, The Woman Is Cooking Bacon!, and The Ceiling Cats Are Everywhere Tonight! Cynical, no nonsense Elvis and shy, sweet, sensitive Puck are the reporter kitties in the field, while the adventurous jokester Lupin serves as anchor cat. Together they break headlines on the food bowl, new plants, mysterious red dots, strange cats in the yard, and all the daily happenings in their home
Stick Cat series by Tom Watson
There's a new pet in town.
Stick Cat.
It's a big day in the big city for Stick Cat and his best friend, Edith. There are treasures to hunt, songs to sing, pigeons to catch, and naps to take. But way up on the twenty-third floor, danger lurks just around the corner. Terrible noises and violent crashes trap a desperate man in the building across the alley. Stick Cat will need to navigate his way across the alley--and around Edith's peculiar ways--to attempt a rescue.
With Tom Watson's trademark combination of laughs and adventure, Stick Cat's high-wire act is sure to please cat lovers and Stick Dog fans everywhere.
Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat series by Johnny Marciano
Klawde is not your average cat. He's an emperor from another planet, exiled to Earth. He's cruel. He's cunning. He's brilliant... and he's about to become Raj Banerjee's best friend. Whether he likes it or not.
Klawde had everything. Sharp claws. Fine fur. And, being the High Commander of the planet Lyttyrboks, an entire world of warlike cats at his command. But when he is stripped of his feline throne, he is sentenced to the worst possible punishment- exile to a small planet in a quiet corner of the universe... named Earth.
Raj had everything. A cool apartment in Brooklyn. Three friends who lived in his building. And pizza and comics within walking distance. But when his mom gets a job in Elba, Oregon, and he is forced to move, all of that changes. It's now the beginning of summer, he has no friends, and because of his mother's urgings, he has joined a nature camp.
It's only when his doorbell rings and he meets a furball of a cat that Raj begins to think maybe his luck is turning around...
Heavily illustrated, with a hilarious, biting voice that switches between Raj and Klawde's perspectives, this is the story of an unlikely friendship that emerges as two fish out of water begin to find their footing in strange new worlds.
Dr. Kitty Cat series by Jane Clarke
We'll be there in a whisker! Dr. KittyCat is a talented vet -- and an adorable cat. She's ready to rescue whenever help is needed. When a call comes in that Posy the puppy has hurt her leg at the Paws and Prizes field day, Dr. KittyCat rushes to the scene. Without Dr. KittyCat's help, Posy will be disqualified! Supercute photographs of real puppies and kittens combine with hand-drawn purple line art for a completely unique look.
Warriors series by Erin Hunter
The Warriors book series is about the adventrues of feral cat clans living in a forest who follow a strict "warrior code" and believing in ancestral spirits called StarClan. The books feature themes of war, loyalty, prejudice, and survival as a pampered house cat named Rusty joins ThunderClan, becoming the warrior Firestar. The extensive series is organized into multiple arcs, or mini-series, each focusing on new protagonists within different cat clans and exploring complex ideas within a world of anthropomorphic cats
Happy reading!