#CAT NINJA BOOK 11 SERIES#
There’s actually a second “cycle” of the novels that started in 2019, and the graphic novel series I read recently is actually the second incarnation of the graphic novel series (the first adaptation was published in 2007!). I read the Artemis Fowl series-or at least a couple of the books-back when they were first published, but then I kind of lost track of them. (For the record, the time travel here is a little more detailed than in Cat Ninja, though it’s still mostly a McGuffin device that just works when it needs to.)Īrtemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel series, written by Eoin Colfer, adapted by Michael Moreci, illlustrated by Stephen Gilpin The fun thing, of course, is that not only do the characters in the story travel around in time, but you as the reader can jump back in time, too, making a different choice at each branch and hoping to find a happy ending. Oh, and your story ends, over and over again, with over twenty different possibilities (most of them unpleasant). You meet pirates and fantastical creatures and aliens. The story takes you-as you may have guessed-to different points in time, from dodging dinosaurs in prehistoric periods to fighting gladiators in Rome. Do you go down to the basement? Do you investigate the motel rooms? It’s all up to you. So you and the two kids who were playing basketball in the parking lot, Trent and Damien, decide to explore a bit to figure out what’s going on. Your mom calls to tell you to stay out of the basement and the line goes dead, and your dad-who was just here a minute ago-has vanished. You’ve just moved to Wisconsin with your parents, taking over your grandmother’s motel because she’s gone missing, and almost right away things get weird. The way it works is the same, though: you read a section of story (told with you as the main character), and every so often you’re presented with a choice, with different page numbers to jump to based on your decision.
This one is an official CYOA book (remember, that’s a trademark!), but in a new paperback format that’s slightly larger than the classic white-bordered versions you may remember from when you were a kid. While we’re on the subject of time travel, here’s a kids’ book that uses the perfect format for time travel: a choose-your-own-adventure story. Time Travel Inn written by Bart King, illustrated by María Pesado Lots of action, a good helping of silliness, and some references thrown in there for the parents (like the villainous slug Elan Mollusk, for instance, in a sequence that’s an homage to old James Bond films). Okay, so the time travel isn’t super detailed, but it should be fun for the middle grade target audience of this series. That’s when a third creature shows up: Hoot, a little owl that has some remarkable abilities of her own-and her appearance coincides with a string of villains arriving to challenge Cat Ninja.Īs you may have guessed from the subtitle, this volume includes some time travel! I don’t want to spoil too much, but Hoot is connected to some tangled timelines, and our crew finds themselves on a time-hopping adventure in the latter half of the book. Squeaks still tries to pull off some schemes from time to time. By this second volume, the two animals have developed a sort of truce, though Mr. The two siblings who take care of them know their secret, but they still keep things hidden from their parents.
Squeaks is also known as Master Hamster, a criminal mastermind.
But I’ve got a big stack for you today, including several comics, a Choose-Your-Own Adventure book, and a couple of Young Adult novels!Ĭat Ninja: Time Heist written by Matthew Cody, illustrated by Chad ThomasĬat Ninja is a comics series about some pets with secret identities: Claude pretends to be a lazy cat at home, but sneaks out to fight crime as Cat Ninja his housemate Mr. It’s been a couple of weeks since my last Stack Overflow column-I spent most of October working on daily Etch-a-Sketch drawings inspired by an AI-generated prompt list, so I apologize for my absence. Fortunately, we still had plenty of board games and books, so I got a bit of extra reading done.
#CAT NINJA BOOK 11 OFFLINE#
This past week our internet went down for a day, which meant we all did a lot more offline than usual-we couldn’t watch any TV because everything is through streaming services, and even most of our video games require an internet connection to function.
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