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In Bad Kitty: Searching for Santa , by bestselling author/illustrator Nick Bruel, Kitty's back for another Christmas tale--this time involving Santa and complete with a colorful poster!
In this hilarious story, Kitty battles with Santa and loses. Or does she?
Kitty wants to write a letter.
Actually, she wants to write a letter to Santa.
But has Kitty been good this year?
Hmmm . . . Kitty's not so sure.
She writes the letter anyway and is soon on her way to meet Santa in real life at the mall!
Will she make it in time? Will Santa give Kitty what she's asking for?
Author Notes
Nick Bruel is a published author and an illustrator of children's books. Some of his published credits include: Clever Duck, The Mouse Family Robinson, Bad Kitty Gets a Bath (Bad Kitty), and Under the Mishmash Trees. He made the New York Times Best Seller list for 2011 with A Bad Kitty Christmas and again in 2013 with his titles Bad Kitty School Daze and Bad Kitty Drawn to Trouble.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (2)
Horn Book Review
Kitty wants to give her wish-list letter directly to "Santa" at a nearby store. On the way, she encounters so many Santa-costumed charity workers (plus one dog and...an octopus?) that she becomes frazzled. Arriving at the store to find it closed does nothing to improve Kitty's mood, nor does opening a bunch of packages containing ugly sweaters. Happily, Santa-or whoever read the letter-pulls through. As usual in this series, Kitty's "bad" behavior, communicated entirely in the bright and expressive cartoon illustrations, is relatable as well as funny. The offstage narrator's droll tone and the smart pacing of page-turns and occasional panels heighten the humor. Katie Bircher November/December 2019 p.27(c) Copyright 2019. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Bad Kitty is backwith a letter to Santa.Even though she "is not so sure she's been good this year," Kitty writes to Santa to ask for "a nice present." Next she must "GIVE the letter to Santa," and a picture shows her gripping a newspaper with the headline "MEET SANTA TODAY!" and a photo of Kris Kringle. While en route to the store to see him (her letter cleverly stuck into the folded brim of her knitted hat), Kitty encounters someone she thinks is Santa but who turns out to be someone dressed in a Santa suit and ringing a bell for charity. Other similar encounters show a diverse range of people (men, women, and a child with different skin tones and hair textures) wearing Santa suits and holding signs reading "GIVE." There's even a dog and an octopus getting in on the action in the digital, cartoon-style pictures. Kitty is overwhelmed by all the Santas, none of whom looks like the white-bearded white man in the newspaper. And alas, when she reaches the store, it's closed! Angry, she balls up her letter and stomps on it before heading home. But, in a gift of an ending, Bad Kitty ends up with a very nice present under her tree: a fish in a brown-paper package all tied up with string.Nice enough. (Picture book. 4-7) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
