annette45 's review for:

Katie the Catsitter: Best Friends for Never by Colleen AF Venable

4.0

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While I very much enjoyed the first book in this series as did my 10 yr old daughter, I didn't like this one as much. My 10 yr old enjoyed it because she loves Katie the Catsitter and thinks she's super funny and she also loved the cats and all their names and what they could do to help with solving crimes. I thought it was cute and fun with the cats and with Katie officially being a superhero sidekick in this one. It was about par for the course with Katie's best friend situation where she and Beth had spent the summer apart and grown in different ways so they changed. So, of course, their friendship also had to change with Beth having a boyfriend. It illustrates some good topics and things that friends have to learn to deal with and how things can change as you grow up and go in different directions than your friends with your life. This has good potential for further installments in this world and can be helpful to be used with kids when discussing some topics and such. The illustrations and art in this graphic novel are very well done also.
Thanks to NetGalley and Random House Children's/Random House Books for Young Readers for letting me read and review this graphic novel. All thoughts and opinions are my own.