5 Novels - Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars Slaves of Spiegel The Last Guru Young Adult Novel The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death "Here, in an appropriately fat trade paperback...is a collection of the Master's greatest works: Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars; Slaves of Spiegel; The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death; The Last Guru ...
Like any good mother, she marched her son to the vet, who gets straight to work. Reaching deep down George's throat, the vet pulls out - a cat! BUT the problem is not solved, and the vet continues his hilarious extractions, finding a duck, a pig, and even a cow. At last, when all are removed, George utters an "arf" Young readers will roar with ...
Roger the prince is a funny guy--he keeps everyone in the kingdom laughing. Unfortunately, his father, the king, thinks that an heir to the throne needs to be made of more serious stuff. In an effort to prepare Roger for the future, the king sends him on a quest through the Forever Forest, over the Dastardly Divide, into the Valley of Vengeance, ...
Fantagraphics is proud to publish Jules Feiffer's long out-of-print and seminal essay of comics criticism, The Great Comic Book Heroes, in a compact and affordable size. In 1965, Feiffer wrote what is arguably the first critical history of the comic book superheroes of the late 1930s and early 1940s, including Plastic Man, Batman, Superman, The ...
Although it's no Mount Everest, a young girl attempts to scale a great height of her own--the fearsome Daddy Mountain. Step-by-step, the girl takes readers along on her perilous climb from her father's feet all the way up to his head. Illustrated with line drawings by the author who is the also the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for editorial ...
Despite constant warnings from his father, a young boy continues to misbehave while on a family car trip. Fed up, the father makes good on his threat and the boy is put out of the car and left on the side of the road. When his parents return to take him home, the boy has decided that he likes roadway living and declares he will stay on the ...
Norton Juster's timeless, bestselling novel will reach an even wider readership with this outstanding Spanish translation. The tale of ten-year-old Milo and his experiences in the "Lands Beyond" has become a modern-day children's classic.
A young girl desperately searches for her missing stuffed toy. Colorful illustrations accompany the text. Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the Best Illustrated Children's Books of 1998 and named a New York Times Notable Book.
With an uptight businessman father and a preoccupied, fashion-designer mother, ten-year-old Jimmy finds life at home difficult. He is not doing well at school, nor is he good in sports--but he can draw. He finds solace in creating superheroes, and his talent comes to the notice of a popular boy at school. The two work on a comic strip together, ...
Elliot is a bachelor in his late thirties whose new girlfriend, Joanna, is everything he ever wanted in a woman--intelligent, beautiful, warm, independent--and yet terrifies him for precisely that reason. A twice-divorced real estate broker who likes order in her life, she is equally scared of the precariousness of having someone matter to her. ...
Prolific cartoonist and author Jules Feiffer has written a humorous, moving tribute to his delightful nine-year-old daughter and her love of animals. Though Julie really wants a dog, she must settle for Timmy, a sickly kitty who gets less and less friendly as he improves. As a consolation, Julie is allowed to get a sweet, loving hamster named ...
Told through the observant and wise eyes of a veteran kindergarten teacher, this book offers a lyrical look at the hidden structures of life in an urban elementary school classroom.
Tired of his family disturbing his play by constantly calling him into the house for dinner, a young boy named Bobby imagines he's not himself but rather all sorts of different creatures and objects--including an airplane, a horse, a lion, and a monster. Illustrated with b&w drawings.
The boy across the street has a fantastic life--he gets to sleep late, doesn't go to school and has a pool in his bedroom? Can the boy who watches him have the same things in life? Full color.
A satirical novel about the downfall of a narcissistic lothario. Jules Feiffer's first satirical novel follows the humorous, existential rise and fall of a narcissistic lothario, Harry, from influential high-society hanger-on to suicidal cipher. Harry is "blessed" by his family's endless bounty of love and hope, raised to believe he is the ...
A young boy named Raymond imagines what life would be like if he lived in a comic book and could use the simple word "meanwhile" to change scenes whenever he got caught in an unpleasant situation. When Raymond writes "meanwhile" on his bedroom wall, he magically enters a comic book world where he travels from adventure to adventure. Illustrated ...
In these three delightful, bittersweet stories of modern life, Jenny Allen's brilliant and witty narratives and cartoonist Jules Feiffer's playfully expressive drawings coax to the surface the hidden anxieties, familiar frustrations, and downright fury that baby boomers try to convince themselves they don't really feel.
It's no secret that most "New Yorker" readers flip through the magazine to look at the cartoons before they ever lay eyes on a word of the text. But what isn't generally known is that over the decades a growing cadre of women artists have contributed to the witty, memorable cartoons that readers look forward to each week. Now Liza Donnelly, ...
Beloved illustrator Jules Feiffer collaborates with his daughter, Kate, for this charming picture book that tells the story of Henry, a dog who only wants one thing in life--a tail. Full color.
"Feiffer: The Collected Works" is part of a series bringing together all the cartoons, plays, screenplays, articles, essays, and other writings of this great political and social satirist. Vol. 4 collects Feiffer's great comic strip "Sick, Sick, Sick" (later renamed "Feiffer"), strips for "Playboy" magazine, and his satire on Hollywood sexuality, ...
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