Author: John Patrick Green
Genre: graphic novel
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Summary (provided by publisher): All Marmalade wants to do is build things.
She is, after all, a trained architect.
She’s also a distractingly adorable kitten.
Fed up with not being taken seriously because she's so cute,Marmalade bands together with a handful of other aspiring builders—all of them kittens. But in a world where humans call the shots, can the Kitten Construction Company prove their worth . . . without giving up the very things that make them kittens?
(Don't worry, dear reader, the answer is definitely"yes"!)
My Opinion: Kittens working in construction feels like a pretty niche intersection of interests. The appeal for older readers is certainly going to be in the tongue-in-cheek juxtaposition of these ideas. It's a ludicrous image, kittens building a high rise. Green presents us with a truly bizarre idea with zero explanation. How/why are kittens getting jobs? Green doesn't bother with the why, just the silliness inherent in the image. There is a lot of humor supporting a message about being true to yourself, even when all of society dismisses your dreams.
Advanced Reader Copy provided by NetGalley.
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