I was not expecting how awesome this comic was. Katie is a normal teen who happens to be good with cats. Her friends are all going to summer camp, but with a single mom and no extra cash, Katie takes up cat sitting for a neighbor to earn her own way to camp. Tables turn hilariously when her neighbor doesn't have just one cat, but 217 cats! Also, there are super villains and heroes battling in Katie's city, as if her summer wasn't already chock full of adventure. Read Katie the Catsitter and enjoy some amazing artwork and a super fun story that we could all use right now! I look forward to more.

<i>The ARC of this book was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you!</i>

This was such a fun escape read! I was immediately drawn to this book by the cover and title. I don't think you can have enough oft-requested "books like Raina Tegelmeier's, Victoria Jamieson's, etc." This book not only has your typical tween troubles such as changing friendships, it also has cute animals and a superhero element! This graphic novel (the first in a series) would have been PURR-FECT (haha) for me as a kid. (And I still loved it as a grown-up.) It will be a good choice for booktalking at libraries and schools.

This graphic was original, excellently drawn, and so well done!  It was cute, it had excellent characters, and all the cats were adorable!  I loved it!

Honestly, when I read the description about this book I was a bit skeptical, but it was terrific. I loved our plucky protagonist’s stick-to-it-tiveness and the original plot was refreshing. Being a cat owner myself, some of the panels made me laugh out loud. The illustrations definitely meshed well with the text to create a lively, fast-moving story that made me want more from this eccentric crime fighting group.

I really enjoyed this book!  For me, it fell just short of 'love,' but I would highly recommend this graphic novel to kids, tweens, and teens!

Katie is trying to earn enough money to go to summer camp with her best friend, Bethany.  The flyers she's put up around her apartment complex offering her services aren't doing so great, until the gorgeous and mysterious Ms. Lang hires Katie to cat-sit every night.  Only, Ms. Lang has 217 cats, and each cat seems to have its own unique...interests...One warning was not to let the cats buy anything off of the Internet...Katie has to learn how to manage SO MANY intelligent and active cats while Ms. Lang goes to work each night.  Katie begins to suspect that the cats' mysterious matron might be one of the superheroes/villains that run throughout the city at night.

This book was a lot of fun.  I don't quite know that this book offers anything that has absolutely never been seen before, but what I really enjoy is that it took certain tropes (smart house animals that know how to work the system, kid earning money for summer camp, etc.) and work them into a book that I would honestly recommend for a wide range of ages.  The content is tame enough that I could recommend this book to an 8-or-9-year-old who loves reading Raina Telgemeier's books, but I think that a teenager would also enjoy the plotline.

Cute and delightful kid-lit graphic novel that combines superheroes, animal rights, and so very many cats! I am looking forward to seeing more in this playful and lighthearted series.

I LOVED this adorable graphic novel about a 12-year-old who desperately wants to join her best friend at summer camp but can't afford it. She tries (and fails) to earn money doing odd jobs for her neighbors, before a woman upstairs hires her to look after her 217 cats at night. These cats, however, are odd. Maybe even evil? Katie's struggles with getting the cats to behave (ordering 20 anchovy pizzas online, stealing an old lady's couch, playing with grenades) gave me lots of laughs, and the illustrations of all the animals are absolutely adorable. Eventually, Katie starts to suspect that maybe it's not just the cats who are evil... maybe their owner is a supervillain! But as Katie examines the good deeds of her upstairs neighbor and the so-called supervillain, she begins to realize things aren't so black and white. 

I was a huge fan of Kiss Number 8, so I was stoked to see another Colleen AF Venable graphic novel. Katie the Catsitter definitely lived up to my expectations! I will be very excited to recommend this to middle-grade readers come winter, especially to animal lovers and fans of superheroes and heist stories.

<u>Katie the Catsitter</u> is an adorable, sweet, humorous adventure tale filled with lots of heart too. When Katie can't afford go away to summer camp with her best friend, she ends up trying to pick up odd jobs around her apartment building to fund it. Suddenly, she finds herself taking care of her neighbor's very skilled 217! cats. This is geared to be more middle grade, but would be perfectly suitable for 3rd grade and up! I loved that this was a realistic superhero/villain graphic novel with important themes like friendship and animal rights included. I'm always a fan  of a graphic novel with a great message/plot AND equally pleasing and enticing illustrations, and <u>Katie  the Catsitter</u> delivers! I cannot wait to purchase this for my school library!

It's summer and Katie is bummed that she can't go to summer camp with her friends.  In order to try and pay to go, she starts working odd jobs.  The only job that really sticks with with Madeline, a woman who has her watch her 217 cats.  These aren't ordinary cats though: they can sew, use the computer, 3D print, and whole lot more.  As the summer progress, Katie begins to learn more about herself, Madeline, and the cats.

This was an adorable and fun graphic novel.  I loved Katie and all of the cats that she watched.  It was a good blend of a friendship and growing up story as well as a superhero fantasy.  I also very much liked the art style and color palette.  This is going to really appeal to fans of Raina Telgemeier, Svetlana Chmkova, and Ben Hatke.  This is one of my favorite graphic novels I read this year.  I cannot wait for it to come out so I recommend to a wide range of readers.

If I'd had this book as a kid, I would have read it again and again. There are so many subtly funny moments in this book. Katie is just a girl living her regular life, wishing she could go to camp with her friends... and she happens to live in a city of superheroes and villains, but it doesn't affect her day-to-day at all. She gets a job catsitting - for 217 of the smartest cats ever. A lot of little moments are so silly and fun. There's also an underlying theme here of a girl who is being raised by a single mom who can't afford to send her to camp, and there's a really genuine way of showing Katie's pain at knowing she doesn't have as much money as her friends and feeling too proud to accept money without working for it.

My only issue with this book is the way Bethany stopped being as good a friend when she went to camp. There seemed to be a plot point leading up to why this happened (suggesting she wasn't getting Katie's letters), but it never really came to anything. I think the middle grades trope of "friend goes away for a week or two and they suddenly change" is a little old. Hoping it'll be addressed in the sequel!