Bad Kitty

A most hilarious alphabet book with a kitty who goes bad due to vegetables and healthy food. Her subsequent terrorism pays off with capitulation that includes a donkey named Dave and an offering of human sacrifice!

Twisted and laugh out loud funny!

When her family runs out of cat food, and attempts to feed her healthy vegetables instead, a good kitty goes bad. Very, very bad! An A-Z list of veggies is followed by an A-Z list of bad behaviors the kitty gets up to, until someone finally arrives with the proper food for our feline heroine. Now determined to reform, kitty engages in an A-Z list of good behaviors, until another turn of events - the introduction of a new puppy companion - leads to another (possible) change of heart...

As a girl I simply loved Jack Gantos's Rotten Ralph books, about one very badly-behaved feline who was constantly up to no good, so Nick Bruel's Bad Kitty felt like familiar territory to me. I enjoyed this story of one kitty's vacillation between good and show more bad behavior, and think it will make for a uniquely entertaining alphabet book. The artwork is a little more cartoon-like in style than I care for - it felt a little flat to me, to be honest - but it works well with the story. Recommended to all young cat lovers, and to anyone looking for alphabet books with a story attached to them. show less

Hilarious concept book about a good kitty gone bad upon overhearing that there's no cat food in the house, only...VEGETABLES--a whole alphabetful! Then she hears the situation's been remedied and there's a whole alphabetful of of cat food. She feels bad about having been bad, and...off we go through the alphabet a third time as she makes amends. To reward her, her owners get her a puppy friend who'll play with her and share her food, and...uh-oh--that bad-kitty face is back. The illustrations of the little black cat are funny and perfect.

Bad Kitty is one of our bestselling series, so I was excited to finally see for myself what all the fuss was about.

Kitty is a Good Kitty...until one day her family is out of cat food and only have an alphabetical assortment of healthy food. Thus, Good Kitty resolves to become a Bad Kitty, committing an alphabetical list of sins against the family and neighborhood...until a grocery trip brings a haul of delicious alphabetical treats, which leads Bad Kitty to make alphabetical amends in order to be a Good Kitty again.

Gotta admit, at first I wasn't quite sure what all the fuss was about this book. That first alphabetical list of fruits and vegetables isn't very impressive. Iceberg lettuce, Navy beans, sQashes, rhUbarb, and Vegetable stew show more are kind of lame, and while one or two cheats can be fun, that's a big proportion of the alphabet to be stretching.

But then we get to the next alphabet and things start getting really fun! Now we've got whole phrases instead of single objects, and many of them are playfully alliterative, so that we're not getting just one instance of a letter (even if only one letter in each sentence is in bold). For example, Bad Kitty "Clawed the curtains" and "Hurled hairballs at our heads." All of her delicious foods are two-word alliterations, and her atonements are just as fun as her dastardly deeds--though based on the Homework she finishes, I'm not sure I'd want her help filing my taXes!

The Insect Ice cream on the Chicken Cheesecake is Bruel's bright illustration--this book would be nothing without Bad Kitty's absolutely priceless expressions! The clever panel-like design keeps the alphabets compact and flow of the story clear.

I'm still not impressed with that first alphabet...but now I definitely get the hype around Bad Kitty! show less

An alphabet book about all the things that a very bad cat does when her owner runs out of food, starting with every letter of the alphabet. It gets a little long after awhile because the alphabet is repeated five or six times, each time describing something the kitty is doing with every letter, but I still enjoyed the illustrations and humor.

I work in a public library and initially picked up this book because I thought someone truly had taken a bite out of it! Once I realized it was a cleverly designed book with the beloved Bad Kitty, I simply had to read it. I was delighted! It's a wonderfully humorous way to explore the alphabet with youngsters.

My girls and I love this book. It is a A-Z alphabet book with great illustrations. The book makes me laugh out loud, especially some of the comments the author has Bad Kitty say and do. This is a great book for a parent to read aloud to a young child. It is also a good choice for a young child learning to read. The illustrations will keep the attention of a young reader and have them practice some difficult words.