Mojo and Mini-Mo

    (Scholastic, 2003)
™ and © Scholastic Books

Let’s face it: the villains are way more interesting than the heroes. This has never been more true than in the case of Mojo Jojo, the green-faced, hyperencephalic, redundant-talking foe of The Powerpuff Girls who, by the way, happens to be a chimp.

This story is very much Mojo’s baby, which Mini-Mo also is, albeit more literally.

Not every type of story can be transformed equally well to every medium, and something of the Powerpuff Girls’ frenetic activity is lost in prose, even with illustrations. In that sense, this edition pales beside the cartoon and even the comic book. But, since the emphasis is more on Mojo, whose appeal lies more in his stilted, repetitive speech patterns, this particular story works well.

The best part, of course, is getting the young ’uns to crack a book because it deals with characters they already know and love. In that aspect, this story is a winner.

— Jack Abramowitz
Jump to issue:
  NotesWriterArtist