This was funny and silly but ultimately not compelling or engaging for me or my five year old. I found that the plot and characters weren't very developed and the plot was quite the stretch, which made it unappealing for me.

This is the cutest book. This would be a wonderful addition for your classroom library or for your own home. The illustrations are bright and you don't want the adventure to end.

This is a short elementary level graphic novel. Our young protagonist goes to make lunch for their sister and makes a super special sandwich that turns out to be a living thing. The squirrels start attacking in the side, the only way that the sandwich can be saved and live happily ever after is if the humans have a dance battle. This book is , just all tongue-in-cheek fun. It’s non-sick sense of coal in a way that kids will love and gravitate towards.

Goofy. Wacky. Silly. Superb! Great, easy-to-read new series for fans of Pizza and Taco, with plenty of jokes and fun characters.

Marco has, what I would consider, a pretty crazy day. The shenanigans that get underway are random in the best, most far out way. Marco has magic sandwich making skills, mad dancing skills and both make this story incredibly hilarious. The art is colorful and cartoon-like. Easy recommendation.

This book is… well, it is adorable and adorably silly!
Do you know how most people think that most books are usually meant to be educational, smart, or have a teaching moment in them, or at least have some solid morale or something “of value”? Yeah, this is not it, this is not one of those books and I am pretty confident to say that this is an absolute bonus in the case of this book. The sole purpose of this book is to bring joy, laughter, and fun into this world. And this book does it great. It delivers. I know that many people think that each and every book needs to be “of value” and at least to some degree “educational” and this is where I disagree. No. There should be books that are for fun only. Not every little read should feel like hard work. In fact, it is ok if most reads never feel like a chore at all!
I feel like this book is the perfect “gateway book” for those young readers who think that they do not enjoy reading as much as others do, or as much as they should. It is perfect for those who think that reading is hard and boring. If you have a kid like that in your life, get them this book. And then some more books like this one. And, trust me, they will be hooked and will learn to love books, all because they are learning that reading can be fun and fun only. Once they learn to read for fun, they will be ready for more serious reads. But before they are there, get them this book.
Ok, my educational musings aside, I read this book. My tween child read this book. I read it and smiled. My tween read it and giggled. She thought the book was absolutely hilarious.
It is a short and quick read (60-something pages only). The drawings are laugh-out-loud fun, the text is perfect for each drawing. The story does not really make a lot of sense if you are looking or hoping for anything resembling a storyline or solid plot, but yet it is somehow action-packed and there is not a single dull moment.

This one's an odd duck.

Lunch Buddies: Battle in the Backyard is structured like those 90s episodes of The Simpsons where the beginning of the narrative and the end of the narrative have little, if any, connection to each other. Somehow a child boasting about his sandwich-making prowess after school leads to sentient food, squirrel kidnappings, inter-species dance-offs, and a tenuous human-squirrel alliance brokered by the aforementioned sentient food.

It's offbeat and unhinged enough to be popular with younger graphic novel readers, but it struggles to maintain logic or cohesion as the narrative rolls on.