The story of Mr. Spittles, the prize family cat that passed on years ago, was interesting and I knew from reading Scroggs’s past work that he wasn’t through using that particular angle. One of the things I like best about this series is that the author knows how to set up things he keeps returning to for bigger and bigger laughs. Mr. Spittles’s story doesn’t emerge all at once, and the tale is even better for that. Scroggs has great timing for dropping the other shoe. Or, in the case of the Curse of the Kitty Litter, dropping the next load of bad news!
The deliberate linking of the cat show judge Simon Yowl to American Idol’s Simon Cowl is a hoot. It might be something the younger readers won’t get, but it’s one of those things Scroggs sticks in for his adult fans that pick the books up and read them when no one’s looking.
This book just hit the shelves so you should be able to find it. You don’t need to have read the others. Simply pick it up, leaf through it, and see if something catches your eye. I’m betting something will. Then you’ll go back and try to get the other books in the series and eagerly look forward to the new ones. Just like my son and I do.
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