Long Tail Kitty

Cartoonist Lark Pien, whose comics have long drawn a following among graphic novel readers, makes her first picture book with this story. Its central character is Long Tail Kitty, who lives on a street with a bridge and has a crowd of neighbors around him. Among them are a bee who gets along with the flowers, though not every flower is pleasant, Good Tall Mouse, who enjoys ice skating, and a family of aliens who arrive for a single night of fun.

The settings move from Kitty's home to the hill, meadow, lake, river and town nearby, so young readers can revisit the same places across the stories. Each tale is built around its drawings as much as its words, and the pages invite children to return to them again and again.