It started in a basement. Sif, a petite black cat with excellent ideas and zero regrets, was on the hunt for the missing treats. Her sturdy, brave-despite-himself friend Buckles was two steps behind, trying to keep everyone out of trouble. And Ferris, the gentlest lop-eared rabbit who ever read a book he shouldn't have, was about to fire up a homemade time machine. What could possibly go wrong?

Quite a lot, it turns out — and all of it cozy. Fourteen books in, the crew has stared down a basement "demon" (hello, Ferris), fought a robot vacuum to an honorable truce, and ridden a misdialed time machine past dinosaurs and ancient Egypt into the neon 1980s, where a smooth tuxedo cat named Fergus talked his way into the family. These days the calendar does the traveling: every month the humans set up a holiday, and the cats throw their own pint-sized version on top of it. The big scary settings are always played for warm laughs, never real fright — the only thing your reader will lose sleep over is asking for one more page.

Written and self-published on Amazon by author Dillon Alexander, the Sif & Buckles Adventures are read-aloud comfort food for ages 3 to 8: funny, kind, full-color, and built around one tiny question with a very long answer. Where were those treats? Sif would like you to know it was absolutely, definitely not her fault.