Cat Kid Comic Club
Comics & Creativity!
Join Li'l Petey [sic], Flippy, and Molly as they introduce comic making to twenty-one funny, rambunctious, and talented frogs. As the story unwinds with mishaps and hilarity, readers get to see the progress, mistakes, and improvements that come with practice and persistence. Can the trio help the class unleash their own creativity?
The baby frogs' comics are featured as stories-within-the-story! 'Squid Kid and Katydid', 'Baby Frog Squad', 'Monster Cheese Sandwich', and 'Birds Flowers Trees: A Haiku Photo Comic' are just some of the mini-comics. Utilizing humor and drama, prose and poetry, they are illustrated in different media including acrylics, pastels, colored pencils, felt-tip markers, clay, hand-made cardboard sculptures, photographs, pipe cleaners, construction paper collages, and cookies.
Dav Pilkey
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 illustrate and write. He won a national competition in 1986 and the prize was the publication of his first book, World War Won. He made many other books before being awarded the 1998 California Young Reader Medal for Dog Breath, which was published in 1994, and in 1997 he won the Caldecott Honor for The Paperboy.
Cat Kid Comic Club
Cat Kid Comic Club consists of five books, and the series is set to expand with the upcoming release of one more book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
