Squirrel Do Bad: Trubble Town #1

Description

From the creator of the New York Times best-selling Timmy Failure series comes a laugh-out-loud, heartwarming, full-color graphic novel series about a quirky town and its even quirkier residents - just right for young readers looking for longer books. Wendy the Wanderer has lived in Trubble Town her whole life but never had the chance to go exploring. For this reason, she thinks she was definitely misnamed. Her dad likes to know where she is to make sure she's safe, so she's never been anywhere on her own. Then, her dad leaves on a trip and the babysitter doesn't reinforce all the usual rules. Or any of the usual rules! Suddenly, Wendy is free to do what she wants, and what she wants is to live up to her name ... and find Trubble. Turns out, there's lots going on in Trubble Town. As she encounters endearingly goofy animals and hilariously hapless townsfolk, Wendy's very first adventure takes more twists and turns than she could have ever expected. She learns some really valuable life lessons and even teaches a few of her own.

Stephan Pastis is the creator of the best-selling series TIMMY FAILURE, which published in over 40 languages and which was adapted into one of Disney+'s first feature films. An attorney turned cartoonist, Pastis lives in the Bay Area, with his wife and two children. Critics have praised Pastis for appealing to young readers with his knack for comic timing and the interplay between cartoon, text, and elements of the absurd in his storytelling.

'The comic strip-style art, with minimal shading or detail and a hand-lettered font, is well suited for the manic, madcap humour. A wild ride infused with anarchic glee.' - Kirkus 'Deadpan humor abounds alongside a cartoonlike approach to violence and destruction (buildings explode, angry mobs stampede and loot), but it's really the utterly unpredictable, absurdist plotting that propels this screwball adventure forward.' - Publishers Weekly 'Follows a strange logic of its own that leads to hilarious callbacks ... [Pastis] builds a world of jokes along the way.' - School Library Journal