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Balloon Toons: The Super Crazy Cat Dance
With simple text and cartoon artwork, Balloon Toons™ are the the perfect way to engage and encourage new readers. Award-winning and up-and-coming cartoonists lend their inimitable and illustrative talents to entertaining stories kids will enjoy again and again.
Breakout artist Aron Nels Steinke's rollicking tale has cats of all shapes, sizes, and colors who populate a littl...more
Breakout artist Aron Nels Steinke's rollicking tale has cats of all shapes, sizes, and colors who populate a littl...more
Hardcover, 40 pages
Published
August 18th 2010
by Blue Apple Books
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Strong, brightly colored cartoon graphics on black paper make this title stand out. An exuberant girl is accompanied by a host of cats, some skate boarding, some driving tiny cars. In rhyming text encased in speech bubbles, she describes her cats and instructs a friend in a super crazy cat dance that ends on the moon. Imaginative and lively, the sophisticated graphics will draw readers, and the simple text will give them practice, without making them feel they are reading a baby b...more
Strong, brightly colored cartoon graphics on black paper make this title stand out. An exuberant girl is accompanied by a host of cats, some skate boarding, some driving tiny cars. In rhyming text encased in speech bubbles, she describes her cats and instructs a friend in a super crazy cat dance that ends on the moon. Imaginative and lively, the sophisticated graphics will draw readers, and the simple text will give them practice, without making them feel they are reading a baby b...more
This book was pretty dumb. It's touted as a good book for new readers and for introducing a cartoon format, but it was just too goofy, in a not-so-good way. I don't really see kids liking it, even the cat-lovers. Sometimes it lost its rhyme, the perspective was totally whacked, and though the cats were cute, it was just kind of dumb. Also, the two girls and the multitude of cats run on clouds to the moon. Where they find moon kitties. And wonder where the cheese is.
I see several reviewers really...more
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This graphic novel for new readers is fun and silly, but there wasn't quite enough "there" there for me. The story seemed a bit disjointed. In the beginning, it's rhyming ode to cats, but then it turns into a lesson on doing the cat dance, and concludes with a trip to the moon. But, the illustrations and graphic novel format will certainly appeal to new readers. It will be interesting to see if this is a book kids check out and recommend to friends.
This neat little comic was waiting for me when I returned from holidays, part of my Indiespensable package (a neat service from Powell's bookstore in Portland, Oregon).
As the cover says, this comic is for kids and grownups alike. It is cute, happy, and fun, and both I and my husband enjoyed it.
All in black and white, the drawings are simple, but animated. Printed on recycled paper with soy inks, it is also environmentally friendly.
As the cover says, this comic is for kids and grownups alike. It is cute, happy, and fun, and both I and my husband enjoyed it.
All in black and white, the drawings are simple, but animated. Printed on recycled paper with soy inks, it is also environmentally friendly.
Cats to share and cats to spare. Cats are everywhere! All about cats, this book features cartoon illustrations with bubble text. The book really didn't have anything to do with crazy cats dancing, and I am not a huge fan of the illustrations. However, the rhyming sing-song quality of the story made it fun to read and kids would love the bubble text so it might be a good try for reluctant readers.
If you love cats, this is the purrfect book. It's a cartoon book style that is humorous and cute. I would recommend this for a first grader or maybe ages 6 and up. It's style, main character and humor may be too sophisticated for anyone younger than 6.
reviewing for Good Comics for Kids
What a wonderful book! It has a quiet rhythm similar to Goodnight Moon... I highly recommend it!
I don't honestly know what to make of the plot, but I absolutely love this book anyway. It's imaginative, funny, quirky, dreamlike and strange, and I am sure it will be a hit with kids who love cats, and kids who just love books. I especially love the black background on each page, which seems to brighten the figures in each scene, and also contributes to the sense of nighttime strangeness and dreamlike possibility.
Read my full review on my blog: http://sharingsoda.blogspot.com/2011/...
Read my full review on my blog: http://sharingsoda.blogspot.com/2011/...
thanks paula!
A quick read. Fun illustrations.
Jan 10, 2013
Niki
marked it as to-read
Jan 10, 2013
Debra
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