On Purpose (Cat Kid Comic Club #3)

by Dav Pilkey

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

Dav Pilkey is back with another inspiring and laugh-out-loud story about L’il Petey, Molly, and the baby frogs of the Cat Kid Comic Club. This time, the baby frogs attempt to find their purpose while staying true to their creative vision and navigating their relationships with each other. Chock full of creative inspiration and meaningful lessons, Cat Kid Comic Club: On Purpose is yet another must-read from the author of Dog Man.

The newest graphic novel in the groundbreaking, worldwide bestselling series by Dav Pilkey, the author and illustrator of Dog Man.

The Cat Kid Comic Club is back in session with a brand-new creative and funny graphic novel.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781338801941
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	04/12/2022
Series:	Cat Kid Comic Club Series
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	22,849
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)
Age Range:	7 - 18 Years

About the Author

When Dav Pilkey was a kid, he was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. Dav was so disruptive in class that his teachers made him sit out in the hallway every day. Luckily, Dav loved to draw and make up stories. He spent his time in the hallway creating his own original comic books — the very first adventures of Dog Man and Captain Underpants.

In college, Dav met a teacher who encouraged him to write and illustrate for kids. He took her advice and created his first book, World War Won, which won a national competition in 1986. Dav made many other books before being awarded the California Young Reader Medal for Dog Breath (1994) and the Caldecott Honor for The Paperboy (1996).

In 2002, Dav published his first full-length graphic novel for kids, called The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby. It was both a USA Today and New York Times bestseller. Since then, he has published more than a dozen full-length graphic novels for kids, including the bestselling Dog Man and Cat Kid Comic Club series.

Dav's stories are semi-autobiographical and explore universal themes that celebrate friendship, empathy, and the triumph of the good-hearted.

When he is not making books for kids, Dav loves to kayak with his wife in the Pacific Northwest.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Cat Kid Comic Club:

* "Irreverent, laugh-out-loud funny and... downright moving, it's a heartfelt celebration of coming into one's own as an artist, with all its frustrations and joys." — Publishers Weekly, starred review

* "Colorful, compelling, and laugh-out-loud funny. Every elementary school library needs this graphic novel." — School Library Journal, starred review

"Pilkey effectively mixes instruction and empowerment into the chaos, the frenetic panels... making both immensely enjoyable. Supa fun." — Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2022-04-27
The Cat Kid Comic Club reconvenes!

When last readers saw them, Melvin and Naomi had just submitted Naomi’s comic to “that publisher lady”; the action here picks up 10 minutes later as the little frogs endure the agony of waiting for a response. Fortunately, the club’s next meeting gives them the opportunity to share Naomi’s opus, The Under Werewolves, a metrically flawless celebration of the universality of underwear. Alas, “that publisher lady” rejects it, writing, “The idea that everyone is the same fails to take into account how people are treated differently in the world.” Chagrined, Naomi gives up on comics (but not her determination to make it rich) and apologizes to two siblings she’s afraid she may have hurt with her story’s gender assumptions. Agent Melvin, on the other hand, submits two other sibling-created comics; maybe there’s an ice cream machine in the little frogs’ future after all. The drama is breathlessly reported by Dog Man regular Sarah Hatoff, who presents White (cameraman Roscoe has brown skin). Here exploring the concept of purpose, Pilkey lets characters and readers ponder its complexity—with butt jokes keeping the tone light. While its theme is not as clearly developed as the previous volume’s, this episode nevertheless presents the series’ now-trademark winning mix of sibling hijinks and club members’ comics, rendered in a variety of styles.

The next meeting can’t come soon enough. (notes) (Graphic fiction. 7-11)

Kirkus Reviews