Simon's Cat vs. the World (Simon's Cat Series #4)

by Simon Tofield

Overview

The world’s favorite cat faces his biggest series of challenges yet, as he takes on the whole globe!

With over 360 million hits on YouTube, Simon’s Cat is a genuine word-of-mouth phenomenon. Fans from all over the world have fallen for this adorable but anarchic feline who will do just about anything to be fed. Simon Tofield’s beautiful drawings and warm humor come alive on the page in this irresistibly charming book—an outgrowth of the enormously popular short films featured on YouTube.

Simon’s Cat proved his authority in the house. He returned victorious from his adventures beyond the garden fence. He prevailed after the chaotic arrival of a new kitten in Simon’s Cat in Kitten Chaos. Now he takes on the world! Illustrated in glorious full color, this volume explodes from the page with mesmerizing levels of detail.

This is a fixed-format ebook, which preserves the design and layout of the original print book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781480455382
Publisher:	Akashic Books
Publication date:	06/01/2021
Series:	Simon's Cat Series , #4
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	73 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

Simon Tofield is an award-winning illustrator, animator, and director based in London, England. At the age of nine, Tofield received his first kitten, a stray rescued from a farmer’s barn. He has had cats ever since. When not attending to his cats’ needs, Tofield likes painting, reading history books, and spending time in the great British countryside. His Simon’s Cat short films have garnered hundreds of millions of views, and the book versions have been international best sellers. He is the author of Simon’s Cat in Kitten Chaos and Simon’s Cat vs. the World.
Simon Tofield is an award-winning illustrator, animator, and director at Tandem Films in London. At the age of nine, Simon received his first kitten, a stray rescued from a farmer’s barn. He has had cats ever since. When not attending to his cats’ needs, Simon likes painting, reading history books, and spending time in the great British countryside. His Simon’s Cat short films have garnered hundreds of millions of views, and the book versions have been international bestsellers. Simon’s Cat in Kitten Chaos is his latest book.

Editorial Reviews

09/09/2013
Simon’s white cat steps into a Technicolor world in this collection of all-new cat cartoons based on the popular (360 million views on YouTube) cartoon and book series. The bendy-as-rubber, demanding-as-a-debutante feline faces off against his own environment—the beanbag chair, lawn gnomes, neighborhood dogs, and Simon’s model ship—in full-page, full-color illustrations. Tofield’s cartooning is wonderfully fluid: the cat is beautifully rendered in simple lines, and is as flexible and highly expressive as the real thing. His indoor and outdoor misadventures are filled with details that increase the laughs with every viewing. Each page is wordless except for a simple one- or two-word caption each, and sight gags range from the outrageous—most cats can’t throw snowballs or use a crowbar to break through another home’s cat flap for purloining food—to the familiar (pawing frantically at a nature documentary about birds on the television, flopping belly-first on the middle of a Scrabble board). Cat lovers will adore this and will nod in recognition of real-life cat behavior; cartoon fans will delight in Tofield’s graceful skill in capturing the slinkiness, stealth, and self-absorption of our feline masters. Extras include an eight-page section on how to draw the characters and a sheet of Simon’s Cat color stickers. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

"Simon’s Cat has taken over the world like a digital Garfield."

Sunday Times (London)

"Funny and warm, the thing that really struck me as a cat lover was that this was obviously an animator who understood cats and had watched their behavior . . . Full of Tofield’s attention to the smallest idiosyncrasies that other cat owners will recognize."

Herald (Scotland)

"One of the hottest publishing properties of the year . . . What makes Simon’s Cat so infinitely irresistible? There’s the cute factor, but what sets Tofield’s cartoons apart are the truly comic moments of pure cat-ness: the merciless patting at a half-dead fly, the single-minded determination, that weird little dance thing that segues seamlessly into a look of utter boredom."

Irish Times

"A delightfully funny collection, Simon’s Cat vs. the World makes an excellent giftbook for cat lovers everywhere."

Midwest Book Review

"Fans are in for a treat as favorite characters, as well as new faces, run amok in world full of surprises."

Cat Fancy