Featured Titles: The Kittytubers & Iz the Apocalypse
Kitten Friends: Quincy's Story By Darcy Pattison
Published by Mims House Books
Rights sold:
Bengali — Bangladesh
Chinese (Simplified) — China
Chinese (Traditional) — Hong Kong
English — Pakistan
Indonesian — Indonesia
Japanese — Japan
Korean — South Korea
Malay — Singapore
Mongolian — Mongolia
Tamil — Sri Lanka
Thai — Thailand
Vietnamese — Vietnam
Age Range: 10 - 14
Quincy Persian wants two things: a great roommate and a chance to become a food cat on Kittytube.
But Joaquin Maine Coon, the largest kitten, has taken over their dorm room. Quincy is forced to take the top bunk and hides in fear from the bully.
Taping new food cat videos should be Quincy’s refuge. Instead, he must work with kitten like Mirko Bengal, who bungles every scene. Lonely, Quincy turns to Ismo Bobtail, an international kitten from Japan, who is studying the Kittytube operation and hopes to help start something similar in Japan. Life in the Kitten Dorm is hard.
The Kitten Dorm is an important part of training kittens to become actors on Kittytube. An inventor built a cat-to-human and human-to-cat speech translator and gave it to the cat world. Finally, they are in charge of their own destiny! They created Kittytube and set up recording studios to train actors and create videos. Into this world are born three Persian kittens: Angel, Quincy and Pittypat. Angel’s story is told in The Kittytubers, Books 1-3. Book 4 puts Angel’s brother, Quincy, onto center stage.
In this exciting return to the Kittytube world, Quincy must keep his relationships straight and still manage to make the cut when the kitten actors are cut to only twenty kittens who will move to the next phase of training. Follow Quincy’s path to stardom.
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A cute, smart story that kitten/animal-loving kids will enjoy!
I didn’t know about kitten videos until I read this book. After checking them out, I can see why they generated this story. The videos are just plain cute, but the book is so much more! Each kitten has its own personality, its own flaws, but Angel Persian has star quality from the very beginning. Read along as she tries to find her own path to stardom. Along the way she discovers a few truths:
1. Be true to yourself. It’s the only way to enjoy what you do.
2. Family is important. Three little kittens can help their parents.
3. You can be friends, even if you’re competing for Top Kitten.
But most of all this is a cute, smart story that I enjoyed reading. I think kitten-loving, animal-loving kids will too.
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What a fabulous book!
I read this with my sons (7 and 9 years old) and we all loved it. They are big YouTube fans so they really enjoyed reading about Kitty Tube and how the kittens decided what videos to make. One of my favourite things about the book is how Darcy seamlessly weaves real world problems into the story. These include things like being different, earning and saving money, and being friends with competitors. I highly recommend this fun and educational read!
Darcy Pattison Children’s book author and indie publisher, Darcy Pattison writes award-winning fiction and non-fiction books for children. Her works have received starred PW, Kirkus, and BCCB reviews.
Awards include the Irma Black Honor award, five NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books, two Eureka! Nonfiction Honor book, two Junior Library Guild selections, two NCTE Notable Children’s Book in Language Arts, a Notable Social Studies Trade Books, and an Arkansiana Award. She’s the 2007 recipient of the Arkansas Governor’s Arts Award for Individual Artist for her work in children’s literature.
Always active, before her tenth birthday, she (almost) climbed the Continental Divide, turning back at the last twenty yards because it was too steep and great climbing shoes hadn’t been invented yet. Before COVID, she rode a bicycle down a volcano in Bali, Indonesia and hiked in the U.S. Rockies. On her bucket list is kayaking the Nā Pali Coast of Hawaii and eating curry in Mumbai.
Iz the Apocalypse by Susan Currie
Published by Common Deer Press
World rights available
Age Range: 9 - 12
A spark ignites inside fourteen-year-old Iz Beaufort when she hears school music group Manifesto perform. Even though she hasn’t written a song since That Place, she recognizes herself in the moving performance and longs to be part of the group, certain that they might actually understand her.
But Manifesto is based at the prestigious Métier School, and Iz has bounced through twenty-six foster homes. Plus, there’s no way Dominion Children’s Care would ever send a foster kid to a private school when a public option is available.
So Iz does what any passionate, broken, off-the-chart wunderkind might and takes matters into her own hands. Iz fakes her way in only to face a new set of challenges: tuition fees, tough classwork, and new classmates she can’t immediately identify as friends or foes.
And if she can’t handle all this while keeping how she got into Métier a secret, she could get kicked out of both school and her current home. But a life with music—a life where Iz gets to have a voice—might be worth risking everything.
Susan Currie is an elementary teacher in Brampton, Ontario (22 years and counting). Before she entered the public school system, she earned a living as an accompanist, pit musician, music director, choir director, organist, dinner musician, leader of various music programs for children, and piano teacher. She has written two other books—Basket of Beethoven (Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2001) and The Mask That Sang (Second Story Press, 2016). Susan is an adoptee who was in the foster care system briefly as a baby, and only learned of her Haudenosaunee heritage (Cayuga Nation, Turtle Clan) as an adult. She is happily married to John and has a wonderful daughter named Rachel.