Yue’s warm and hilarious artwork winningly captures the furry whirlwind that is Ms. Lang needs her to catsit, the supervillain Mousetress wreaks havoc on the city? And, Katie muses, isn’t it strange that every time the friendly and kind Ms.
Although her 217 (yes, 217) charges are definitely cute and cuddly, they’re also wild and wily, with decidedly un-feline talents ranging from computer hacking to coordinated thievery to costume design. Katie’s thrilled, but she soon realizes the gig entails dealing with a lot more than hairball hurking and furniture scratching. Lang makes an offer that seems almost too good to be true: Might Katie want to catsit for $30 an hour? Could their friendship be waning? Katie is shocked out of her glumness when her mysterious neighbor Ms. Even worse, Bethany is sending fewer postcards than usual. Katie hangs a poster in her apartment building hallway advertising odd-job services to her neighbors, in hopes of earning enough money to join Bethany for a week.Īfter killing plants she was hired to water and dropping groceries she was hired to carry up the stairs, Katie begins to feel desperate.
The story opens as Katie is lamenting the start of the most boring summer ever, because her BFF Bethany is headed to a pricey sleep-away camp.
This empathetic and exciting superhero series opener is sure to be adored by readers who can’t get enough adventure stories, mysterious goings-on, coming-of-age tales or cats. Author Colleen AF Venable and illustrator Stephanie Yue, who previously collaborated on the Guinea Pig Pet Shop Private Eye series, reunite for Katie the Catsitter.
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