Cloud Puppy

by Kelly Leigh Miller, Kelly Leigh Miller (Illustrator)

Overview

Narwhal and Jelly meets The Amazing World of Gumball in this first book in a delightful graphic novel chapter book series about Cloud Puppy—part puppy, part cloud, and all adorable—and her forays into friendship, adventure, and all things geeky!

Meet Cloud Puppy! Her hobbies include making rainbows, super sniffing, and, of course, reading the Pretty Princess Warrior Dragonetta series with her best friend, Berry Rose. After Cloud Puppy finds out that her favorite author will be a guest at the local comic book convention, she and Berry Rose decide to attend in homemade costumes.

But when they both insist on dressing up as the same character, Cloud Puppy and Berry Rose have their first fight ever! Now, they’re going to the convention separately. Will these feuding friends be able to make amends?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781665932141
Publisher:	Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	05/28/2024
Series:	Cloud Puppy , #1
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	262 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	6 - 9 Years

About the Author

Kelly Leigh Miller is an illustrator and author who loves everything cute and whimsical. She is the author of the Cloud Puppy series, I Love My Fangs!, I Love My Fur!, I Love My Magic!, and many more books. Visit her online at KellyLeighMiller.com.

Editorial Reviews

"Miller delivers a bright dose of sunshine wrapped in a wondrously silly package in this meta graphic novel series opener...The creator eschews cutesy commonplace kitsch via vibrant and irreverent illustrations, and Cloud Puppy’s shameless enthusiasm for her own geekiness and her determination to venture out into the bustling world of comics and conventions is refreshing and contagiously positive."

2/12/24 - Publishers Weekly

"Ebullient, utterly adorable cartoons convey the particulars of con prep and the rhythms and rules of the event itself. The book reads like nothing less than an invitation to fandom more broadly: Come join us—we’re wild, wacky, and exhaustively creative over here!...A joyful celebration of fandom and friendship for curious young readers."

3/15/24 - Kirkus Reviews

"The inventive style of the comic demonstrates exactly what the artist is telling young readers about making comics: the limits reside solely in your imagination."

5/15/24 - Booklist

2024-02-17
A fluffy pup and her teddy bear best friend experience the thrills of a comic book convention.

Part cloud, part puppy, Cloud Puppy is all excitement when she picks up the newest volume of Dragonetta, a comic and TV series about a warrior princess, created by Kit Starlight. When Cloud Puppy learns that Kit Starlight will be attending a local comic convention, she takes off, trailing rainbows behind her, to tell her pal and fellow fan Berry Rose, a teddy bear with a horn and fairy wings. The friends decide to attend in costume (their first cosplay!) but don’t confirm their character choices with each other. When they realize they both want to be Dragonetta, they soon find themselves feuding: “But I’m the one who introduced you to the series!” “Yeah, but dressing up [was] MY idea!” Along the way, Cloud Puppy and Berry Rose learn important lessons in friendship. Ebullient, utterly adorable cartoons convey the particulars of con prep and the rhythms and rules of the event itself. The book reads like nothing less than an invitation to fandom more broadly: Come join us—we’re wild, wacky, and exhaustively creative over here! A secondary storyline in which Cloud Puppy, Berry Rose, and their friends Mossquatch and Jack draw comics together is further compelling enticement to budding young artists.

A joyful celebration of fandom and friendship for curious young readers. (Graphic fiction. 6-10)

Kirkus Reviews