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Ninja Cat: Whiskers of Choice
A cast-away cat with no parents who lives on the mean city streets with his animal friends fights for financial freedom when a notorious loan shark bullies them into a wild heist situation!
Lando, Squirrel, Mouse, Bird and Bee take out a $2,000 loan from the Tank Bank, unknowingly agreeing to Loan Shark's 20% weekly compounding interest that balloons their repayment to over $21,000 quickly! Loan Shark forces them to choose: Join the Street Gang, commit a heist and repay the money, or become his next snack.
While helping his friends with their loan, Lando learns about his ninja roots, seeks advice from grown-ups he trusts, and utilizes calming techniques to chill, breathe, and stay cool in the face of pressure to make the best choice to save the day.
Ninja Cat, written by millennial parent Justin and edited by his 11 year old son, provides parents an amazing opportunity to introduce kids to tough topics like finance, loans, interest rates and repayment, peer pressure, gang behavior, cliques, absentee parents, stress management, urban/rural differences, and making difficult choices while considering consequences and accountability (including the criminal justice system and social stigmas, like snitching).
Lots of bold, hard-to-discuss topics inspired by what parent ought to expose their kdis to in 2019 and beyond. In a new digital world with financial pressures like never before challenging urban and rural citizens, Ninja Cat presents these modern issues using amazing, hilarious illustrations that easily propels the subject matter with wicked humor and fun.
Read with your kid, fill in the blanks to further guide their personal whiskers so they can make wise choices when life gets real!
Lando, Squirrel, Mouse, Bird and Bee take out a $2,000 loan from the Tank Bank, unknowingly agreeing to Loan Shark's 20% weekly compounding interest that balloons their repayment to over $21,000 quickly! Loan Shark forces them to choose: Join the Street Gang, commit a heist and repay the money, or become his next snack.
While helping his friends with their loan, Lando learns about his ninja roots, seeks advice from grown-ups he trusts, and utilizes calming techniques to chill, breathe, and stay cool in the face of pressure to make the best choice to save the day.
Ninja Cat, written by millennial parent Justin and edited by his 11 year old son, provides parents an amazing opportunity to introduce kids to tough topics like finance, loans, interest rates and repayment, peer pressure, gang behavior, cliques, absentee parents, stress management, urban/rural differences, and making difficult choices while considering consequences and accountability (including the criminal justice system and social stigmas, like snitching).
Lots of bold, hard-to-discuss topics inspired by what parent ought to expose their kdis to in 2019 and beyond. In a new digital world with financial pressures like never before challenging urban and rural citizens, Ninja Cat presents these modern issues using amazing, hilarious illustrations that easily propels the subject matter with wicked humor and fun.
Read with your kid, fill in the blanks to further guide their personal whiskers so they can make wise choices when life gets real!
142 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 21, 2019
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About the author
Justin Donner
8 books8 followersOriginally way back from County Donegal, Ireland, the great grandson of an Irish patriot, Justin is an elder millennial father of an amazing kid known as Corrigan. After many travels from the Bellingham bay to the barns of North Dakota and back to the beaches of Oceanside, California, academia to addiction, days are now spent trying to be better than yesterday to help somebody else.
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February 21, 2020
I received a complimentary copy.
A fun book that covers serious topics.
I love how committed the author is to the problems. It all ties together to make for a wonderful read. Kids and adults can enjoy this while super young kids can look at the pictures.
A fun book that covers serious topics.
I love how committed the author is to the problems. It all ties together to make for a wonderful read. Kids and adults can enjoy this while super young kids can look at the pictures.
November 21, 2019
Written like a fast-paced comic book, featuring a beautiful black cat and his friends; you wouldn’t expect to learn a thing or two whilst following along about finances. Kids can learn about loans, interest rates, loan sharks (seriously, they’re terrifying!) and the stress that comes along with all of these things! The range of characters is fun and sensible with where the story is based (New York, or Chicago comes to mind.) There’s a zoo and all sorts of characters.
There are action scenes, reflective scenes, story lines and more. The tale also touches on things that many of todays’ kids will understand without a problem (unfortunately) – bullying and peer pressure to name a few. The way the main character is learning to deal with these concepts is helpful to watch play out as you follow along. It’s a very fast read, in my opinion. It didn’t take long to get through once I picked it up. This is definitely one I’ll keep around for future, simple teaching tips for my kids once they’re a bit older!
What’s super nifty about this book isn’t just the information that kids can start to learn about, but the fact that since it’s drawn out in comic book style – kids can color it in afterwards. The entire book is in black/white. There’s even a few extra pages for your kids (or your) own doodles too! As you’re informed about fairly quickly when you open it up, this book was written by a father/kid duo – and judging by the cover, their cat plays the main character. I think that creating something like this as a parent with their child must’ve been a super great experience!
There are action scenes, reflective scenes, story lines and more. The tale also touches on things that many of todays’ kids will understand without a problem (unfortunately) – bullying and peer pressure to name a few. The way the main character is learning to deal with these concepts is helpful to watch play out as you follow along. It’s a very fast read, in my opinion. It didn’t take long to get through once I picked it up. This is definitely one I’ll keep around for future, simple teaching tips for my kids once they’re a bit older!
What’s super nifty about this book isn’t just the information that kids can start to learn about, but the fact that since it’s drawn out in comic book style – kids can color it in afterwards. The entire book is in black/white. There’s even a few extra pages for your kids (or your) own doodles too! As you’re informed about fairly quickly when you open it up, this book was written by a father/kid duo – and judging by the cover, their cat plays the main character. I think that creating something like this as a parent with their child must’ve been a super great experience!
January 29, 2021
Handling life when pressure hits and decisions need to be made is never easy. Throw in financial stress and strained friendships and suddenly those choices become even more challenging! Ninja Cat introduces kids to these tough topics as street savvy animal friends get out of trouble after taking money from the notorious Loan Shark, learning valuable lessons along the way.
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