The Casagrandes #3: Brand Stinkin' New

The Casagrandes #3

by The Loud House Creative Team

Lincoln Loud’s close friend Ronnie Anne and Bobby Santiago recently moved to Great Lakes City to live with their multi-generational family in an apartment building atop a bustling mercado. While Bobby helps his abuelo run the mercado, among other odd (really odd) jobs, Ronnie Anne skateboards through big city life with her friends. Living together with their mom, Maria, they are adapting from going to a family of three in Royal Woods to living with their whole extended close-knit family of cousins and aunts and uncles and parrots and giant dogs… headed by the kids’ abuelos, Hector and Rosa. Now, with more ALL-NEW comic stories, let the fiesta begin!

64 pages, Hardcover

First published May 17, 2022

Reviews

[Doreen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another charming installment of the comic book series adapted from the Nickelodeon cartoon The Casagrandes. Volume 3: Brand Stinkin' New has the added bonus of being entirely comprised of vignettes written especially for this book!

While that does mean fewer Loud family shenanigans from, particularly, Lincoln and Lori making cameo appearances here, this does give the Casagrandes and their friends in the city more time to shine. I greatly enjoyed how most of the stories here were loosely tied to the idea of something new. A particular favorite was the one where Ronnie Anne Casagrande and her upstairs neighbor and best friend Sidney Chang experimented with making fusion food, combining Mexican and Chinese delicacies for some truly scrumptious new dishes... and some perhaps a little less than appetizing. I also really enjoyed the denouement of the story where Carlota Casagrande was trying to persuade her overly sentimental mother Frida to participate in a closet purge, and how that birthed something wonderful and different.

Frida also provides a very relatable Mom punchline for the story "Blanket Statement". I really like watching style-conscious Carl have more room to grow in these pages, too, as I felt like he got shorter shrift in previous books. And, as always, it's wonderful to see CJ, who has Down's Syndrome, star in his own stories. The representation in these books is always terrific and this volume was no different.

As in prior installments, the art hews closely to the cartoon. I still haven't watched any episodes of that, but should likely remedy that gap in my entertainment knowledge soon. I just have so many books to read before I can get around to watching any TV, so thank goodness for tie-ins like this to help keep me up on the pulse of children's entertainment!

The Casagrandes #3: Brand Stinkin' New by The Loud House Creative Team was published today June 28 2022 by Papercutz and is available from all good booksellers, including Bookshop!

[Ksha · Rating 5 out of 5]

While reading the book I feel like I was just watching the show. The book circles around every Casagrande.
The graphics of the book feels warm on the eyes and it is very nice to look at. And for sure children will have fun reading this book

[mary · Rating 4 out of 5]

Almost all of the stories are super fun and I really enjoyed reading them, sometimes I even felt like I was watching the tv show, which is good because you can notice that the stories are well written.

Thanks for the e-arc.

[Arman Waggoner · Rating 4 out of 5]

This gives me the same amount of Joy when I read The Loud House books.

[Arjun Manoj · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was very funny!