The 2024 Ninja Report: Bleak
Trends come and go. One day ninjas are in the zeitgeist, the next they’ve silently snuck away, leaving only a fluttering curtain and confusion.
As an official ninja book popularity historian I can now say with confidence that 2015 was officially Peak Ninja. This is how 2015 will be remembered for future generations. In 2015 it was weird when a book was published that WASN’T about ninjas. Since then it’s been a steady downward trend.
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The recent EPIC (pun intended) rise of the Cat Ninja series has helped the cause, but aside from Cat Ninja and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles tie-in books, I’ve only spotted one 2024 ninja-related book:
All ninja book fans – thank Jason Shiga for saving 2024.
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About Travis Jonker
Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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