Read-alouds and series
Top 10 comic series about animals
Dog Man
Dav Pilkey · Ages 7-10
A police officer with a dog's head, and Petey, a cat who starts out as the villain. Fifteen books.
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The Bad Guys
Aaron Blabey · Ages 6-10
A wolf, a shark, a snake and a piranha who want to be heroes. Twenty books.
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CatStronauts
Drew Brockington · Ages 6-10
A team of cats flying missions to the Moon, Mars and a broken space station. Eight books.
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Bunny vs Monkey
Jamie Smart · Ages 8-12
A rabbit, a monkey and a forest full of odd animals. Twelve books.
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Cat Kid Comic Club
Dav Pilkey · Ages 7-10
Li'l Petey, a kitten, teaches a crowd of baby frogs to make comics. Five books.
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Chi's Sweet Home
Konami Kanata · Ages 8-12
A manga about a lost kitten who finds a family; mostly pictures. Twelve volumes, finished; the English edition reads left to right. 8 to 12 is our estimate.
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Narwhal and Jelly
Ben Clanton
A narwhal and a jellyfish, short comic chapters for younger readers.
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InvestiGators
John Patrick Green
Two alligators who solve cases as undercover agents.
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Babymouse
Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm · Ages 7-10
A mouse with a big imagination and a messy locker. Twenty books, finished.
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Bird & Squirrel
James Burks
A cautious squirrel and a carefree bird on road-trip adventures. Not on Peabody yet.
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Comic series whose heroes are animals: cats in space, a wolf trying to be good, a lost kitten, alligator detectives. Where a series has a Peabody page, the link goes to its books in order.
Every series with a Peabody page was checked against its publisher's pages (or Wikipedia and Bookroo where a publisher's page would not open) on 29 and 30 October 2026; counts are as of 30 October 2026. Ages say whose they are: the publisher's label, or Peabody's own estimate. Series without a Peabody page are named with their author only, from facts we are sure of. Ranked by our judgment, youngest-friendly first within each kind. Checked 2026-10-25. Nobody paid to be here. The buy links are plain search links, not affiliate links, so Peabody earns nothing from them.
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