Welcome back to the world of Breaking Cat News, where in this volume we learn all about the origin of St. Catty’s Day (also known as St. Patrick’s Day), Puck embarks on an epic climb, the ghosts of the Big Pink House come to the rescue, Beatrix takes on responsibility for BCN’s social media presence and tales are told late at night around the space heater! There is of course much more to enjoy here, including instructions for making your own bookmark, book and reading fort, not to mention the importance of Best Cat Wrestling in the lives of our furry friends…. I make no pretense at “reviewing” any of Ms. Dunn’s Breaking Cat News comics - I am completely in love with the ‘strip and have yet to see a single panel that doesn’t make me happy. Her collections of comics can be picked up anywhere along the way, there’s no need to start at the very beginning (although “Breaking Cat News” *is* a “very good place to start”); better yet, try to get the daily comic into your local newspaper or find it on GoComics, you will be happy you did! ( )

My review of this book can be found on my YouTube Vlog at:

https://youtu.be/Tt8__PRYDV0

Enjoy! ( )

Another fun entry to the Breaking Cat News series. ( )

Everything's Coming Up Beatrix! is the sixth book reprinting the Breaking Cat News comic strip. This book opens with praise of libraries. (Their woman visited the Ashaway Free Library, Ashaway, Rhode Island.) That's followed by Fuzzy Blanket Season, which has Puck imagining a cave woman snuggling with her sabre-toothed tiger. The tragedy of the toddler's (the boy's) Pengo the stuffed penguin needing to be washed and dried leads to Puck making a dangerous conclusion. Puck fights the autumn leaves through the window again. I loved the man knowing exactly which cat the woman meant when she told him what one of the cats did. The Halloween section mentioning the humans watching 'It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown' leads to another segment of the ongoing adventure of Puck trying to prove that mailmen exist, as well as Lupin, Elvis, and Puck telling the cat versions of famous campfire scary stories.

The first long storyline involves Puck climbing up to the attic. There he has a reunion with Tittle ('Matilda' to Elvis), the ghost cat from book three, Take It Away, Tommy!. The ghost of her human, Freddie Quinn, from that storyline also shows up. Tillie is not the only ghost animal in the Big Pink House. When Puck is trapped, Tillie rouses the ghosts of Freddie's other cats, who are part of the RCO cat news team (with vintage equipment!): Carl the photographer, Admiral Whiskers, anchor: Lady Jane, and a roving reporter named Angus, who wears a kilt and tam o shanter, Tillie is friends with Agatha, ghost of an ancestress of Alice and Agnes of the Robber Mice gang, a fact that will be revealed in the October 25, 2021 strip. (That Agatha was known as 'the Golden Mouse' in life was revealed in the July 27, 2021 strip.)

Puck's rescue is interrupted by two two-page tales around the heater. One is that of the were-floof. The other is Count Puckula. Lupin can neither hear nor see Tille, so she goes to the apartment above. Sir Figaro Newton's reaction is unknown, but Tabitha's reaction can be heard by Elvis. The rescue takes an unexpected turn.

Puck's possible explanation about the why the woman is asking where are her dudes has a funny illustration.

The Robber Mice at it again when Natasha makes off with one of the woman's earrings. Lupin and Puck's reactions are cute.
Then the woman is contemplating a new hairdo. I love what the cats think of bangs.
The toddler's dream about monsters brings up horror author H. P. Lovecraft. The envelope for Elvis' letter on p.56 gives us the address of The Big Pink House.

Next comes Pucky's Perfect Christmas Trips, followed by the papa-san, a kind of furniture I had not known about.
New Year's Eve brings on the bacon. Late, Lupin demonstrates why one should keep the toilet paper with the end down.

The next big story is that silent danger in homes with cats: shelves.
Tommy, the big, floofy cat-about-town correspondent helps report on Groundhog Day.
Oh, no! The woman has bought Elvis a sweater!
I love the kids moving back and forth in the foreground while the cats report on their parents' colds.

Beatrix, the six-toed kitten who is being fostered by the cats' family, receives hunting lessons (ham sandwich). She and the baby girl get tuckered out at the same time. They do the same thing when they wake up, too.

This book introduces readers to St. Catty's Day, which starts out with an explanation about St. Patrick. (Yes, St. Gertrude [of Nivelles], patron saint of cats and cat owners, shares the same feast day as St. Patrick.) The cats decide to celebrate St. Gertrude instead of St. Patrick, with the local snakes and the Robber Mice participating. The cats end with a resounding parody of "Danny boy". (The boy makes a leprechaun trap and Pucky reports on corned beef for the traditional holiday.)

Puck reports on the woman celebrating her sister's birthday. I loved his conclusion.
There are a couple of stories about feeding multiple cats at the same time. Both are amusing.
I inherited my mom's lack of talent in cooking instead of dad's talent for same, so I feel for the woman and the cake problem.
Sophia teaches readers how to make paper flowers.
Ah, the pain of the woman accidentally stepping on Puck's tail...

A fun storyline for wrestling fans is Best Cat Wrestling: Heck on the Deck! Mommy's Special Boy (Elvis) and Leapin' Lupin assume they will be wrestling for the championship belt. Instead, they're in a tag team competition with the Ceiling Cat Wrestling champions:: la Dama Dragón/the Lady Dragon (Tabitha) and El Punto Rojo/the Red Dot (Sir Figaro Newton). Which team will win? (Sophie does not watch the match, but we get a hint she's wishes she had.)

The humans and the cats both face the day without coffee -- the horror! (I loved the nod to Miss Marple.)

There's a short adventure where the humans and cats are both out of coffee (loved the MIss Marple nod).
The cats suffer from the children being given musical gifts.

There's an Easter egg hunt and all of the kids present have difficulty staying erect when their slippery Easter shoes meet dew-laden grass. They have fun anyway.

The cats react to the woman bringing home a weight and hairball control kibble.
Tabitha teaches Lupin about Cinco de Mayo.
Other brief tales are the woman breaking a 'claw', Lupin and Elvis fight in the two-story cat tower, Lupin and the bud vases, and Lupin and the gnome music box.

Finally! Evlis sees the mailman!
Beatrix becomes the Breaking Cat News social media correspondent.
Burt the barn cat and Trevor the bookstore dog show up for peep toad and fireflies time, as does wise old Baba Mouse, the Russian Blue cat.
Allow Lupin to teach you cat yoga.
One panel of Lupin made me thing of the old Kimba the White Lion cartoon.
Beatrix has been adopted by the bookstore lady! The kitten teaches us about the duties of a bookstore cat.
The family has a do-it-yourself beach day on the porch.
Elvis gives readers his opinion of baseball.

The more-to-explore area explains making bookmarks, little books, and reading forts.

I hope fans of the strip have been given enough information to help them know if this entry has a favorite bit. ( )