Let's Face It, Charlie Brown!
10 best books like Let's Face It, Charlie Brown! (Charles M. Schulz): Working IX to V: Orgy Planners, Funeral Clowns, and Other Prized Professions of the Ancient World, American Knees, The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance, Red is a Dragon: A Book of Colors, Chickens Aren't the Only Ones: A Book About Animals that Lay Eggs, Museum ABC, Epileptic 1 [L'Ascension du Haut Mal, 1-3], You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Get a Life, Hapa Girl: A Memoir
| Author | Vicki León |
| ISBN | 0802715567 |
Vicki Le?n, the popular author of the Uppity Women series (more than 335,000 in print), has turned her impressive writing and research skills to the entertaining and unusual array of the peculiar jobs, prized careers and passionate pursuits of ancient Greece and Rome.
From Architect to Vicarius...
Raymond Ding is 40, divorced, and, as a boyfriend, sort of lecture-y and condescending. He works as the Assistant Director of Minority Affairs at Jack London College in Oakland and, in his relationship with Aurora Crane, a younger Eurasian woman, he can't seem to forget that he's the guy she's sleeping...
| Author | Larry Gonick |
| ISBN | 0393324036 |
An irreverent survey in comics spanning world history from the birth of Islam to the Byzantine Empire to the Italian Renaissance.
Larry Gonick's celebrated series The Cartoon History of the Universe is a unique fusion of world history and the comics medium, a work of serious scholarship and...
| Author | Roseanne Thong |
| ISBN | 0811831779 |
Discover shades of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and more as a little girl finds color in all sorts of everyday things. Many of the featured objects are Asian in origin, others universal: red is the dragon in the Chinese New Year parade, green is a bracelet made of jade, and yellow are the taxis she sees...
| Author | Ruth Heller |
| ISBN | 0698117786 |
The wonderful world of eggs.
This book just talks about different kinds of birds that lay eggs, and then mentions reptiles that lay eggs, dinosaurs, amphibians, a bunch of different kinds of fish, and then spiders, insects, and then the two mammals that lay eggs.
The biggest issue...
| Author | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| ISBN | 0316071706 |
Museum ABC introduces more than one hundred works art--using the alphabet!
This unique alphabet book features four works of art from different cultures and periods for each letter of the alphabet. Simple words matched with intriguing illustrations provide an opportunity for endless exploration....
| Author | David B. |
| ISBN | 2844140858 |
David B.'s tribulations with his brother's epilepsy, the way in which the illness determined the author's artistic vocation, with, as a backdrop, a sharply delienated parade of the chimera of the 70s, from the promise of communal living to the infatuation with macrobiotics, all combine to make of...
| Author | Clark Gesner |
| ISBN | 0793549701 |
This original play has its whimsy and was good. This play was a workshop piece and you get that feel. The creators of this play went in with a subject but no real script and just put some scenes together. Where most scenes work the overall play does not tell a cohesive story and you come out of it feeling that...
| Author | Philippe Dupuy |
| ISBN | 1896597793 |
A celebration of the sophistication, wit and charm found only in the singular collaboration of French cartooning team
For twenty years, French cartoonists Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian have collaborated on every aspect—sharing both the writing and drawing—of their highly...
In the mid-1960s, Winberg Chai, a young academic and the son of Chinese immigrants, married an Irish-American artist. In "Hapa Girl" (hapa is Hawaiian for mixed) their daughter tells the story of this loving family as they moved from Southern California to New York to a South Dakota farm by the 1980s....
| Author | Gary Larson |
| ISBN | 0836220986 |
Another excellent Far Side collection with a couple of classics, some outright groaners, a few uncomfortably cruel gags, and a lot of laugh-out-loud ideas. As usual, about half show animals or bugs engaged in anthropomorphic activities to comment wryly on the absurdity of human habits. Some favorites...
| Author | Kevin O'Malley |
| ISBN | 0802789358 |
The planet Jurassica is in an uproar. An unidentified flying object has crashed into the mysterious moon of Eon. This looks like a job for ...
CAPTAIN RAPTOR!
... hero of a thousand space missions; champion of truth, justice, and dinosaurs in space throughout the galaxy!
If...
| Author | Marilyn Chin |
| ISBN | 0393331458 |
An uproarious debut that lays bare the complicated generational relationships of Chinese American women.
Raucous twin sisters Moonie and Mei Ling Wong are known as the “double happiness” Chinese food delivery girls. Each day they load up a “crappy donkey-van” and deliver Americanized...
| Author | Matthew Van Fleet |
| ISBN | 1442403799 |
Heads is a fun interactive book that explores different types of animals. Van Fleet has found new ways to create the standard pull tab book. Because of it's fragile nature, this would be a great book for parents and younger children (1-4) to share together. As children get older (K-2), it will be an exciting...
Celebrated artist and writer Belle Yang makes a stunning debut as a graphic memoirist with this story of crisis and survival.
When Belle Yang was forced to take refuge in her parents’ home after an abusive boyfriend began stalking her, her father entertained her with stories of old China....
| Author | Anita Jeram |
| ISBN | 0763632171 |
How Bunny loves his mommy! And Mommy adores her little one. "Bunny, my Honey," she says, showing him how to do special rabbity things, like running and hopping, digging, and twitching his nose, and thumping his great big feet. Bunny's best friends are Little Duckling and Miss Mouse. They play quack-quacky...
| Author | Judy Sierra |
| ISBN | 0375968474 |
Winter weather is keeping children from visiting the zoo. So the animals are out of sorts—listless, grumpy, and no longer fun. All except two little friends, a very small hippo and a baby kangaroo. Their hip-hopping, toe-tapping, and rap-rocking soon has the other animals joining in the hip-aroo...
| Author | Peter Stein |
| ISBN | 0545609690 |
When Little Red's Granny Putt Putt gets sick, the tiny moped scooter races over the river and through the dark woods to bring her a basket of get-well goodies.
But when Little Red crosses paths with Tank, the biggest, loudest, meanest machine around, that no-good monster truck has plans of his...
| Author | Bill Shapiro |
| ISBN | 0307459640 |
Welcome to the rejection-letter hall of fame, where the hopes and dreams of celebrities (Jimi Hendrix, Andy Warhol, among others) are crushed alongside the aspirations of the rest of us. You’ll find handwritten notes from former lovers, nasty e-mails from would-be bosses, heated texts, crayon...
| Author | Bill Amend |
| ISBN | 0836218841 |
Bill Amend is an American cartoonist, best known for his comic strip FoxTrot.
Born as William J. C. Amend III, Amend attended high school in Burlingame, California where he was a cartoonist on his school newspaper. Amend is an Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America. He attended Amherst College,...
| Author | Robert L. Short |
| ISBN | 0060011610 |
First published in 1968, this contemporary case for vigorous Christian faith -- profusely illustrated by Charles Schulz's delightful peanuts cartoon strips -- sheds more light on the Christian faith and how it is to be lived than many more "serious" theological works, with hundreds of cartoons featuring...
| Author | Vikram Seth |
| ISBN | 0753807742 |
DISCLAIMER: By the time she finished the book, the reviewer was so deeply influenced by the rhymes in this little book of tales that she couldn't keep the wannabe poet inside her from casting forth the following lines.
In world of beasts and that of men,
There have been a few...
