Product Description

Hooo-ray! Meowie Wowie! Glug Glug Glug and Glig Glig Glig! Introducing the first superhero for babies and toddlers! Marrying comic book with board book into a format just the right size to fill a lap, Supercat chronicles the super adventures of Supercat, who flies from his home in the Milky Way to make the world safe for blankies. With sidekick Super Mouse, Super Phone, Super Milk, and the Cow Who Jumps Over the Moon, Supercat is all set to rescue babies everywhere. Blanket lost? Baby refuses to put on pajamas?? Too many tears to go to bed No problem-Supercat knows just what to do. Funny, fast-moving, thoroughly charming, and adorable, Supercat is high entertainment for the youngest audience, and just as much fun for the parents who will be doing the reading. Kate McMullan's sweet story is full of comic-book style, of "Super!" this and "Super!" that, "Oof!" and "Zooooop-zip!" And Pascal Lemaitre's illustration, is inventive, expressive, energetic, and colorful. The collaboration has everything to catch a baby's or toddler's imagination and get parents to fall in love with bedtime reading all over again.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1706817 in Books
• Published on: 2002-05-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Board book
• 32 pages

From Publishers Weekly
"Meowie Wowie!" Supercat by Kate McMullan, illus. by Pascal Lematre, possibly the first board-book superhero for babies and toddlers, is out to "[make] the world safe for blankies." In comic-strip style, the oblong paper-over-board book features the fearless feline, armed with plenty of Super Milk. Colorful pen-and-ink drawings illustrate the action, in which Supercat proves that he is faster than a falling baby elephant, more powerful than a missing blankie and able to get a hippo into pajamas in a single bound. Ages 1-4.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal
PreSchool-With her constant companion, Super Mouse, her super cell phone, and "plenty of super milk," Supercat is all set to help "babies in trouble." After taking off from the Milky Way on the cow that jumped over the moon, the red-caped feline crusader is the answer to any parent's prayer. She and her mouse pal help several frantic folks by locating a lost blankie, putting pajamas on a reluctant young hippo, and calming a sobbing baby elephant. After each call for assistance, Supercat exclaims, "Meowie Wowie! A job for Supercat!" followed by "Glug Glug Glug" while she drinks her bovine beverage to re-energize her super powers. She's a kind cat with a good heart, but the repetition of the word "super" and the endless exclamation points wear thin after a few pages. The format, a long, narrow board book, appears to be intended for preschoolers, but the small, panel illustrations, with two or three vignettes to a page, will be lost on them. In spite of the brightly colored pictures, reminiscent of James Stevenson's work, this title is an additional purchase at best.
Maryann H. Owen, Racine Public Library, WI
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From the Back Cover
MEOWIE WOWIE! A JOB FOR SUPERCAT AND HIS TRUSTY FRIENDSHere at Last! A Superhero Who Understands Babies!