Patrick The Wolf Boy Volume 1
Grade 2-8-Devil's Due Publishing is issuing a line of graphic novels called D3, digest forms of their popular comics. Initially, Patrick looks like your average boy-he goes to school and to the beach, plays with toys, visits Santa, etc. However, he is a werewolf, and while other children give the teacher apples, he prefers to bestow them with more meaty gifts such as a pig or a moose. When his father tries to teach him how to fish, Patrick finds it more efficient to scare a bear and steal its fish. And every time his parents turn around, he takes a chomp out of something totally unexpected, from baseball bats to neighborhood squirrels. The whimsical '60s-style, black-and-white cartoon strips add to the campy atmosphere (Patrick's appearance hints at Eddie Munster and his father rings of Darren Stevens fromBewitched). Readers of this entertaining compilation are in for a howling good time.-Karen T. Bilton, Somerset County Library, Bridgewater, NJCopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.