These are fun little comic books geared towards the Junie B. Jones and Judy Moody set. (Maybe publishers are trying to hit the female population of the Captain Underpants age-bracket?) Babymouse dresses much girlier than Judy Moody, but she likes monsters and other fun stuff. She's pretty fun -- without warning, she'll float off 
into daydreams and imaginings.
She has to deal with getting up in the morning, a locker that eats her homework, a mean girl (Felicia Furrypaws, an extremely popular student who has naturally straight whiskers) and in the second volume, (cue horror-movie music) DODGEBALL. (I did think that was odd, actually -- I don't remember dodgeball being completely unbearable until high school, but maybe I was just lucky.) She likes watching monster-movie marathons with her best friend, Wilson the Weasel, fun books (not boring ones) and eating cupcakes.
Back to the dodgeball weirdness, though: I think that there's something a little off. Judging from the problems that she's dealing with, Babymouse should be geared to the late elementary school/ealry middle school set. But the dialogue and her personality seem to be geared younger -- check out her website to see what I mean. Maybe slightly immature 4-6th grade girls will like her? That seems like a pretty narrow audience, though. I'm curious to see what age group will end up really embracing her.
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