children's graphic fiction, #3 in series (probably best read in order)

maybe I'm just not invested in these characters (have only read #1, a long time ago) but I found this slow to start. Shouldn't be a problem for kid readers who'll probably blow right through these, but a casual browser might not take to it right away with all the potentially tricky tech words (meteoroids, trajectory, communication, etc.). The plot is more "Hollywood" than science, but the cats grow on you a bit (Waffles shows vulnerability and decides to quit despite his teammates' pleas). ( )

Seriously! These books keep getting cuter! The CatStronaut program is under more pressure than ever as their hubba bubba telescope is broke and frequent meteor showers keep interrupting their communications. To make matters worse the president of the United States is breathing down their necks because it's an election year and he keeps blaming his polling numbers on all the crazy situations they're getting into up in space. Cute and amazing. Give me more! ( )

As usual great story! This time around Pom Pom comes back from Mars to join his fellow crew on the Space Station. They are working to fix the telescope. Poor Waffles gets stuck out in space (the cutest thing about the book!). Of course, there is a happy ending and all is right with the world. The president does get under my skin though... I wish he would spill coffee all over himself again like he did in book 1. ( )

I started with book 3 of the CatStronauts series titled Space Station Situation which follows a team of cats in space. CATS. IN. SPACE. Is it any wonder that I started this series?! Picture a world where the entire population is made up of cats EVEN THE PRESIDENT (who is only concerned with his reelection I might add). In this installment, a meteor is headed toward earth and in order to track its progress and hopefully stop it our intrepid heroes must fix the Hubba Bubba Telescope. However, one of their crewmates has abandoned his post after a traumatizing solo flight around the earth in a spacesuit and the mission is sure to fail without him. (His name is Waffles by the way because of course all of the cats have names much like the cats we are familiar with in this reality.) The book is rife with funny puns and asides as well as excellent illustrations. I wouldn't class this as the best graphic novel I've ever read but I liked it well enough to give another book in the series a shot. ( )