Bad Kitty Camp Daze

by Nick Bruel

160 pages, Hardcover

Published March 25, 2025

About the author

Nick Bruel is the New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of children's books including Bad Kitty, Bad Kitty Gets a Bath, Bad Kitty Meets the Baby, and Boing!, among others. Nick is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist, and during his down time, he collects PEZ dispensers and grows tomatoes in the backyard. He lives in Tarrytown, NY with his wife Carina and their lovely cat Esmerelda.

http://us.macmillan.com/author/nickbruel

Reviews

[Luke Franklin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Realized the first book i read last year was a Bad Kitty book so naturally im making it an annual thing. There is something so comforting about Bad Kitty; these books are genuinely so funny and nostalgic to me. The colors really accentuate Bruel’s illustrations and make them pop.
Can’t wait to read these to my niece!






*****SPOILERS*****




Bad kitty suffers immense brain damage, first leading her to believe she is a dog. She sneaks into doggy camp for the weekend, where kitty (‘Katie’) trips on catnip and Bastet (“…ancient Egyptian goddess of music, of dance, of joy, of family, of women, but most importantly I am the protector of cats everywhere”) reminds bad kitty who she is.
Herat-warming lesson of embracing our own identities/heritages and each other. Was going to give it 4 stars but then he brought out the ancient Egyptian cat god


2026 is going to be a good reading year🙌✨

[Stacey Adams · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bad Kitty gets bonked on the head a few too many times and sort of becomes a dog. Weird! When dog gets to go to stress camp to get away from bad kitty....well bad kitty wants to go to....bad kitty is stressed too. So bad kitty hides in dogs duffel bag and goes to camp where they decide that bad kitty must be a dog. But during activities bad kitty doesn't fetch well or want to swim and they begin to wonder about bad kitty. But bad kitty finds the power to be bad kitty again and does something heroic that makes the camp manager decide maybe cats aren't so bad after all.
The differences between cats and dogs are discussed.