Sparks!

An enthusiastic customer tipped us off to this graphic novel, nearly a year after it came out. All we needed to hear, really, was "two cats in a robotic dog suit," but "narrated by a sentient litter box"? That sealed the deal. And the book itself lived up to every hope raised by those oddball ideas: funny, action-packed, and not a little heartfelt. We would be delighted if Boothby and Matsumoto created many more adventures for robot dog Sparks and August and Charlie, the two intrepid cats at the controls inside. (Ages 7 to 10)