The ones I read were picked for no special reason. They might have been the only ones available at the library at the time.
Here is the full list. The books I read are in boldface.
- Bad Kitty
- Poor Puppy
- Bad Kitty Gets a Bath
- Happy Birthday, Bad Kitty
- Bad Kitty vs Uncle Murray
- Bad Kitty Meets the Baby
- A Bad Kitty Christmas
- Bad Kitty for President
- Bad Kitty School Daze
- Bad Kitty Drawn to Trouble
- Puppy's Big Day
- Bad Kitty Goes to the Vet
In each book, Bruel teaches you something about cats or dogs or elections or getting along with others or whatever. The teaching is sometimes done via a Q&A session with Uncle Murray.
Bad Kitty isn't always that bad. She never talks. All the other characters and the narrator do.
At least one of the books has a couple of lines that parents should know about beforehand. One line is this: "Holy %#@$" Yes, that's literally what is printed. I didn't substitute the characters myself here.
I think that's not a good thing to have in any children's book. A child is going to ask about it. How are you going to explain it? Would you want to be surprised by it?
You can argue that that's the way some people talk, but that doesn't make it okay. If what the character really said had to be replaced by gibberish, what does that say about the word/phrase?
I only found this kind of thing in the Bad Kitty for President book.
Puppy's Big Day is virtually all about Puppy, as you might have guessed. That's fine, unless you were still expecting a book in the Bad Kitty series to be mostly about Bad Kitty.
These books are okay in general. There's nothing especially terrific about them. I can't recommend the President book, but the others (as far as I know) should be decent.
