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Cat High: The Yearbook
This hilarious parody yearbook explores the ups and downs of a year in the life of the senior class cats at Paw Paw High School. This active senior class did a lot in their last year of high The Glee Club Meowlers recorded their first album, "Songs to Lick Fur To," the drama club performed Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the Ratters football coach, Fred Ball Whiskers, retired, and Sophie McMeow was voted "Most Chased." Filled with cat class photos, candid shots, and handwritten notes to the yearbook's owner, Nelson "Gill" Fish, Cat High revives the classic parody yearbook in all its black-and-white, feline-filled glory.
128 pages, Paperback
First published March 3, 2015
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April 10, 2025when i saw this on the shelf at work i couldn’t believe that 1)this was a real thing that could make it into a library and 2) out of all the books we don’t have we had THIS. can not possibly rate it because no rating can encapsulate the amount of thought and effort that went into creating this masterpiece. it’s purrfectly campy and silly and fun (did i mention the 100s of perfectly placed cat puns all over this?? i didn’t know you could MAKE that many cat puns) if u love cats this is worth looking at but it still will forever baffle me that this is a real book that has somehow avoided the weeding process for YEARS at my library. (apparently the last woman to check it out left annotations throughout the entire book on sticky notes and honestly i think that would have been helpful)
October 9, 2015
If you like cats then you will like this book. It is a yearbook about cats. Very cute.
February 10, 2022
I came across this book at a local cafe. This was a parody of a high school year book, full of cats in different outfits making them teachers, faculty members, janitors, and of course, the students.
It was cute and I like all the silly cat puns that were packed in this book. I also love the running gag that pretty much all the clubs and the yearbook itself received donations from the father of a rich exchange student.
Some parts felt repetitive and I wished the cats had more personality. Some more running gags like the rich exchange student would also be appreciated.
It was cute and I like all the silly cat puns that were packed in this book. I also love the running gag that pretty much all the clubs and the yearbook itself received donations from the father of a rich exchange student.
Some parts felt repetitive and I wished the cats had more personality. Some more running gags like the rich exchange student would also be appreciated.
May 20, 2015
Weirdly funny, filled with cat puns and photos of cats in old clothes. Perfect for the crazy cat person in your life!
October 3, 2019
One would think that it's not too hard to make compelling parody material about cats. Cats are naturally pretty entertaining animals to watch and to read about and there are many funny memes relating to cats. This book, unfortunately, takes cat memes and puts them into a senior yearbook that is somewhat awkward (especially considering the photoshopping that is done to add the heads of cats, and one dog, to the photos of high school seniors from decades ago), reminding this reader at least of the worst moments of high school. It would be one thing if this book was consistently funny in a way that was enjoyable, but for the most part this particular book is content to demonstrate a love of insult humor that is sadly not too surprising but also not as enjoyable as it could have otherwise been. When one is looking at a book full of cat memes, one hopes for more than cringeworthy reminders of the worst time of life in a way that encourages the reader to make fun of other people, and this book could have been so much more so easily that it is a real disappointment.
This particular book is organized like a yearbook is, which is what one would expect. The author imagines there being a town in rural Michigan inhabited by cats that has a very eclectic mix of students and teachers and staff in a highly politically and culturally divided setup that involves plenty of students who get in trouble both for pranks as well as for being addicted to catnip and being involved in various crimes. The book features an attractive young nurse who attracts a lot of younger male admirers, has lots of terrible puns in the name, and even features a dog who is in the yearbook as part of an interspecies study program. The book goes political often, featuring some tasteless jokes at the expense of the French as well as a wealthy Arabian princely cat who is also visiting for some reason. Included are photos of all of the staff and students at the school, with some suitably ridiculous courses and clubs and activities shown, and then photos of various clubs that show the cat students dressed in various ways involved in playing tennis or swimming or debating or something else of that nature, with some jokey advertisements at the back.
In reading a book like this, it is easy to wonder what could have made it better. In this particular case, some more ambition might have made this a better book in showing off the quirkiness of cats rather than having them stiffly photoshopped on top of human bodies and photos of graduates. After all, the mismatching head size as opposed to body does tend to make these photos less attractive than they could have been otherwise. And when a book comes along like this one based on pretty basic insult humor and mocking on behalf of some sort of obvious attempt at making fun of people who are not so unlike the various cats, any sort of ambition and excellence helps make the book's bad writing less disappointing. Unfortunately, this book includes plenty of cats but does it poorly and thinks that cats will be funny no matter how much the author lacks a skilled use of humor, as if the very idea of cats being high school graduates is funny enough to make this an enjoyable book. Given the comedy gold that cats can provide, the fact that the author gets so few laughs out of this is a great disappointment.
This particular book is organized like a yearbook is, which is what one would expect. The author imagines there being a town in rural Michigan inhabited by cats that has a very eclectic mix of students and teachers and staff in a highly politically and culturally divided setup that involves plenty of students who get in trouble both for pranks as well as for being addicted to catnip and being involved in various crimes. The book features an attractive young nurse who attracts a lot of younger male admirers, has lots of terrible puns in the name, and even features a dog who is in the yearbook as part of an interspecies study program. The book goes political often, featuring some tasteless jokes at the expense of the French as well as a wealthy Arabian princely cat who is also visiting for some reason. Included are photos of all of the staff and students at the school, with some suitably ridiculous courses and clubs and activities shown, and then photos of various clubs that show the cat students dressed in various ways involved in playing tennis or swimming or debating or something else of that nature, with some jokey advertisements at the back.
In reading a book like this, it is easy to wonder what could have made it better. In this particular case, some more ambition might have made this a better book in showing off the quirkiness of cats rather than having them stiffly photoshopped on top of human bodies and photos of graduates. After all, the mismatching head size as opposed to body does tend to make these photos less attractive than they could have been otherwise. And when a book comes along like this one based on pretty basic insult humor and mocking on behalf of some sort of obvious attempt at making fun of people who are not so unlike the various cats, any sort of ambition and excellence helps make the book's bad writing less disappointing. Unfortunately, this book includes plenty of cats but does it poorly and thinks that cats will be funny no matter how much the author lacks a skilled use of humor, as if the very idea of cats being high school graduates is funny enough to make this an enjoyable book. Given the comedy gold that cats can provide, the fact that the author gets so few laughs out of this is a great disappointment.
December 5, 2021
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January 3, 2024
Okay, I was laughing at this. So true to life.
March 23, 2015
The internet was created to post pictures of cats, right? It seems you can't go anywhere without seeing them. This book takes the concept a step further and puts cats in a classic high school yearbook. There are cats in coats, cats in hats, cats in glasses, even a dog thrown in for good measure. My only question is how did he get the cats to sit still for all the pictures (the ones that aren't photo-shopped)? The paper is a nice thick stock which should provide years of fun thumbing through the pictures, reading the quotes, and reliving your years at Paw Paw High. The only real con is that there isn't much of a story here, it's just a bunch of cat pictures and cat puns in the form of a high school yearbook. It's good for a laugh and young kids will love it, but don't expect to be up till 3 AM trying to finish just one more chapter.
November 20, 2015
Wow. Just wow. Amazing.
February 23, 2016
Very funny book that I won from goodreads... I placed it on my coffee table and look at it when I need a good laugh and my guests really think it's funny especially my friends who have cats too!
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