BORIS THE CAT

Boris the cat is always trying something joyfully new in this collection of warmhearted short comics from Germany

Boris is a charming black-and-orange–striped cat who lives in a cozy house and spends his days with his many animal friends. His adventures are delightfully mild: having a surprise party, coming across a rare mushroom, making a new nest for the storks, liberating a goldfish, catching a ride in a pelicans’ mouth, or cozying up with baby owls are a representative sampling. Holly the hedgehog, Sophie the squirrel, Alex the frog, Biff the badger, Bruno the bear, and other friends help Boris as he discovers new ways to have fun and have happy discoveries in a dozen-plus stories for each of the four seasons. Boris and his friends wend their way through these short stories, each one illustrated in block comic form and spanning about two pages. These snippets are short and sweet, with no scary themes and always a happy, creative resolution to Boris’ many adventures. Children and adults will both appreciate these morsels of masterful ministorytelling. The book concludes with an afterword about the author, who died in 2017. Children might be encouraged to write their own minicomics after seeing how much Moser fit into just six brightly illustrated panels.

Simple stories of happy adventure await with Boris the cat and friends.