Detective Beans and The Case of the Missing Hat Book Review
- Sarah Ickes
- 6 days ago
- 2 min read
This book is a graphic novel and is for any age!
This book was a little out of my comfort zone, as it was the first time I ever read a graphic novel. Now, at this point, you might be saying…hang on…you just finished a compilation of Peanuts comic strips last summer (click here to read over my book review of Snoopy: Beagle Scout Adventures). But that is actually very different from a graphic novel, as the comic strips are more akin to short stories rather than a full length book. Enough of me talking now, onto the review…
Detective Beans is not your everyday young sleuth. Oh, no! He is a feline detective with a love for solving cases…if he had any to file away under “solved,” that is. But after his mother walks his friend, Biscuits, home for the night, Beans leaves his trusty hat on the top of his desk before heading off to bed. As the wind blows through his open window, however, Beans’s hat is whisked away, leaving him scrambling the next morning to find out just where in the world it went. Because, as we all know, a detective is incomplete without his detecting hat!
Through a bizarre series of mishaps, Beans is taken on an adventure-filled with a magician, gardener, a dramatic singer named Trixie Bluemoon, an ice cream inventor of questionable flavors, underwater fish in suits, and even something awry at an art museum. And all of this brings him to one very important dilemma: what will his mother serve for dinner that evening? (He’s secretly hoping that it’s pizza).
As previously stated, this book was not my norm when it comes to my reading style. But…I thoroughly enjoyed the artistic style of the author/illustrator, Li Chen, and her strong sense of story-building. The ending was so cute and it will be interesting to see when he discovers who truly is leaving the sticky notes on his stuff. There is no telling what is in store for our little hero in the following two sequels to this debut novel!
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Thanks for reading my review and see ya next time!
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