Ian Boothby Books

A fun graphic novel in which the author and illustrator team clearly know their craft and their audience and manage, with an economy of words and lively pictures, all that is needed to tell the incredible story of two heavily disguised cats and an alien posing as a baby. The latter is fixed on world domination (of humankind), and the former on saving it. When calamity strikes, cats August and Charlie quickly come to the rescue, with the help of a weirdly smart litter box and not helped, on occasion, by their tendency to argue.

It all makes for a very amusing, madcap adventure that makes perfect sense to readers willing to suspend reality. This is just what many children want and why I think it will prove a hugely popular resource in primary school libraries. Just don’t expect it to stay on the shelf for long.