Ack! Picture book on Bill the Cat coming in September
Ack! There's a picture book coming about Bill the Cat. Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers, announced this week that it was publishing Berkeley Breathed's The Bill the Cat Story: A Bloom County Epic. Philomel is calling the book the "origin story of fan-favorite Bill the Cat," and will release it on Sept. 13.
Ack! There's a picture book coming about Bill the Cat.
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers, announced this week that it was publishing Berkeley Breathed's The Bill the Cat Story: A Bloom County Epic. Philomel is calling the book the "origin story of fan-favorite Bill the Cat," and will release it on Sept. 13.
Breathed, who renewed his beloved comic strip last summer after a 25-year hiatus, said in a statement he thought it was time "that the gentle, cuddly watercolor world of children's literature discover that a quasi-comatose cat's life story is sweetly touching." Breathed's other picture books include Pete & Pickles and Mars Needs Moms!
The cartoonist has also been in the news this week after he revealed to the New York Times that he'd shared a 14-year correspondence with To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee, who died last week at 89.
Lee apparently was fond of another of Breathed's cartoon creations, Opus the penguin.