When Otto the Cat meets a magical genie, he knows just what to wish for: he makes the whole world orange! At first, this new, bright world seems like a lot of fun, but when his mom serves orange spinach for lunch, Otto realizes that his favorite color isn’t the best color for everything.
Booklist's Top 10 Graphic Novels for Youth
Association for Library Service to Children's Graphic Novels Reading List 2013, 2014, and 2016
"Two veteran cartoonists collaborate to create a comic-strip-style book for beginning readers....Offer this to book readers with a bit of experience under their belts and an interest in comics and cartoons." --School Library Journal
"Otto’s Orange Day is an absolute delight to read." --Read About Comics
"This book is sure to engage a new generation in the art form; kids will want to read it once, then return to it again and again." --Booklist "Low on violence and high on production values, this comics-format TOON Book will leave emergent readers wishing for more." --Kirkus Reviews
"Otto’s Orange Day is for every kid who is set in their ways and could use a nudge toward a broadening of horizons. Buy two copies – it’s a page-turner that beginning readers will likely wear out from dangerously high levels of enjoyment." --School Library Journal
"There’s a glorious sense of excitement and sheer fun to each simply crafted, expertly realised page." --Forbidden Planet International
Frank Cammuso is the author-illustrator of the graphic novel series The Misadventures of Salem Hyde and Knights of the Lunch Table. Frank drew the comic Otto’s Orange Day and Otto’s Backwards Day for TOON Books, the latter receiving an Eisner nomination. He also wrote and drew his self-published graphic novel Max Hamm, Fairy Tale Detective, for which he received another Eisner nomination.
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When Otto the Cat meets a magical genie, he knows just what to wish for: he makes the whole world orange! At first, this new, bright world seems like a lot of fun, but when his mom serves orange spinach for lunch, Otto realizes that his favorite color isn’t the best color for everything.
Praise
Booklist's Top 10 Graphic Novels for Youth
Association for Library Service to Children's Graphic Novels Reading List 2013, 2014, and 2016
"Two veteran cartoonists collaborate to create a comic-strip-style book for beginning readers....Offer this to book readers with a bit of experience under their belts and an interest in comics and cartoons." --School Library Journal
"Otto’s Orange Day is an absolute delight to read." --Read About Comics
"This book is sure to engage a new generation in the art form; kids will want to read it once, then return to it again and again." --Booklist "Low on violence and high on production values, this comics-format TOON Book will leave emergent readers wishing for more." --Kirkus Reviews
"Otto’s Orange Day is for every kid who is set in their ways and could use a nudge toward a broadening of horizons. Buy two copies – it’s a page-turner that beginning readers will likely wear out from dangerously high levels of enjoyment." --School Library Journal
"There’s a glorious sense of excitement and sheer fun to each simply crafted, expertly realised page." --Forbidden Planet International
Frank Cammuso is the author-illustrator of the graphic novel series The Misadventures of Salem Hyde and Knights of the Lunch Table. Frank drew the comic Otto’s Orange Day and Otto’s Backwards Day for TOON Books, the latter receiving an Eisner nomination. He also wrote and drew his self-published graphic novel Max Hamm, Fairy Tale Detective, for which he received another Eisner nomination.
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