The Pinkish, Purplish, Bluish Egg
10 best books like The Pinkish, Purplish, Bluish Egg (Bill Peet): A Fairy Went A-Marketing, Mad Amos, 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories, Raz-Ma-Taz, Greyhaven, In Paul Klee's Enchanted Garden, Calvin and Hobbes 1: Thereby Hangs a Tale, Apocalypse 2012: A Novel, The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker, Vater und Sohn, Bd. 3
| Author | Rose Fyleman |
| ISBN | 0140547517 |
At a market, a fairy purchases riches found in nature. Then releases them for their own good or the good of others. A different season plays out with each stanza of Fyleman's verse. Visually exquisite, this is a story to be savored by both parents and children, and is a great book to be shared in preschool...
| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
| ISBN | 0345393627 |
MOVE OVER, PAUL BUNYAN--MAKE WAY FOR MAD AMOS MALONE!
Strange things lurk up in the mountains and out in the plains and deserts of the West, but few are as unique as the giant mountain man named Amos Malone, the man some call Mad Amos, though not to his face. But when the world gets weird, there's...
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0380507730 |
Contents include: The Science Fiction Blowgun by Isaac Asimov / A Loint of Paw by Isaac Asimov / The Advent on Channel Twelve by C. M. Kornbluth / Plaything by Larry Niven / The Misfortune Cookie by Charles E. Fritch / I Wish I May, I Wish I Might by Bill Pronzini / FTA by George R. R. Martin / Trace by Jerome Bixby...
| Author | Stephen Cosgrove |
| ISBN | 0865923337 |
Worth reading for the bunny chain illustration alone, which is absolutely ADORABLE and still gets me. This is sort of an earlier version of Sniffles, although with a happier ending, since the bunnies and goats do pay attention to Raz-Ma-Taz when it counts. The moral of the story is essentially: stop...
| Author | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| ISBN | 0879978155 |
Somewhere in Northern California there is a house where all the dimensions of time and space and distant worlds come together: This house, whose exact location is known to a very special few, is called Greyhaven..it is the spiritual home of an ever-growing 'family' of imaginative writers. Diana Paxson,...
| Author | Audun Eckhoff |
| ISBN | 3775721010 |
Many call Paul Klee a magician. He was no such thing; he did not conjure up anything. He was a creator who found beauty in the world around him, wrote one of Klee's students from the legendary Bauhaus. The Swiss-born painter, like many of his contemporaries--Kandinsky among them--was interested in Transcendentalism...
| Author | Bill Watterson |
| ISBN | 0751505080 |
If you have read the first Calvin and Hobbes directory that was published in the 80's, then you have read this one.
It is a paperback version of half the first book. With classic strips.
Was inspired to read it after watching "Dear Mr. Watterson" documentary on Netflix.
I missed...
| Author | Robert Gleason |
| ISBN | 0765322595 |
In ancient Mexico, the “End-Time Codex”--prophesizing the world’s end in 2012--is entombed. A young Aztec-Mayan slave tells us its story.
Gifted in math and astronomy, Coyotl rises to king’s counselor in Tula, a golden city of milk and honey ruled by the brilliant god-king, Quetzalcoatl,...
| Author | Matthew Diffee |
| ISBN | 1416933395 |
Each week about fifty New Yorker cartoonists submit ten ideas, yielding five hundred cartoons for no more than twenty spots in the magazine. Arguably the most brilliant single-panel-gag cartoonists in the world create a bunch of cartoons every week that never see the light of day.
These rejects...
| Author | Erich Ohser Plauen |
| ISBN | 3473520624 |
Beautiful childhood moments
I read this book about 100 time when I was a little kid in Iran , Loved the pictures and humor , Today it’s still melting my heart. Thank you Erich Ohzer for your books being part of my beautiful childhood memories.
