Introducing best friends Mila and Kit in a graphic novel about stray cats, school food drives, and hungry kids
Shy Cat and the Stuff-the-Bus Challenge, published by Second Story Press, is a 200-page graphic novel for middle grade readers about friendship, neighbourhood cats, and growing up… just a little.
Best friends Mila and Kit spend their days doing fun things: they go to the skate park, play Truth or Dare, and pet the neighborhood cats. Mila’s favorite thing to do is draw her Shy Cat comics. But Kit’s is probably eating afternoon snacks. The first time Kit went to Mila’s house, he ate three bananas in a row without asking! Mila thinks rude is rude, but her mom says that sometimes, rude is just hungry.
When Kit has a meltdown at school over a “best before” date, a bag of apples, and a dented can—Mila realizes there’s something important she might have missed about her friend. And it all starts with their school’s Stuff-the-Bus food drive challenge.
The comic is mainly for middle grade readers—kids aged 8 to 13 or so—but we think older children and adults might like to read it too.
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