To get his presents back, Otto needs to solve a slew of backwards puzzles - but his greatest challenge comes at the journeys very end. His father sternly informs Otto that he has things backwards, and Otto learns the truth of it when someone steals his party stuff and escapes into a neighboring professor’s lab and its gateway to the Backwards World. When Otto and his robot sidekick, Toot, follow the crook, they discover a topsy-turvy world where rats chase cats and people wear underpants over their clothes. To get his presents back, Otto needs to solve a slew of backwards puzzles-but. “Who needs family and friends when I have the important things?”-by which he means cake and presents. Ottos Backwards Day HC Toon Books (W) Frank Cammuso (A/CA) Jay Lynch.

But he goes too far for his parents when he wants to start celebrating a day early, without any guests. That it’s also a lot of fun for adults is a bonus.īackwards Day continues the adventures of Otto the cat from Otto’s Orange Day and begins with Otto as excited for his birthday as any kid. Otto’s Backwards Day reminds me of Max Hamm in its combination of cute art and engaging themes, but being published by TOON, it’s not only appropriate for younger readers, it’s primarily aimed at them. Otto’s Backwards Day by Frank Cammuso with Jay Lynch Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-93 Guided Reading Level M Lexile Level 180 byAlexARosselli Lesson Plan for Otto’s Backwards Day by Frank Cammuso with Jay Lynch All images and 2013 TOON Books/RAW Junior, LLC. It’s great for older kids, but the mixing of children’s characters with booze and bullets may make parents think twice before pulling it out as bedtime reading. It’s a noir detective series set in the land of fairy tales and Mother Goose with one of the three pigs as a detective.

I first came across Frank Cammuso’s work with his wonderful, not-quite-for-kids comic, Max Hamm: Fairy Tale Detective.

Otto's Backwards Day by Frank Cammuso