The Ultimate Alphabet
10 best books like The Ultimate Alphabet (Mike Wilks): Brother Eagle, Sister Sky, 47 Ronin, The Icky Bug Alphabet Book, Art and Ardor, The Missing Persons League, I Spy: An Alphabet in Art, Ape in a Cape: An Alphabet of Odd Animals, Winter's Gift, Simpsons Comics Spectacular, Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard, Vol. 2
I am not quite sure how to feel about this book. Aside from the first and last page, the "story" is actually a speech given by Chief Seattle in the 1850's. Though the words are quite poetic, at the end the illustrator herself says that they are not perfectly quoted. Though I found this under "Easy Reader"...
| Author | Mike Richardson |
| ISBN | 1595829547 |
Japan’s enduring national legend comes to comics! The tale of the 47 Ronin and their epic mission to avenge their wronged master epitomizes the samurai code of honor, and creators Mike Richardson and Stan Sakai have done justice to their story! Meticulously researched and beautifully illustrated,...
| Author | Jerry Pallotta |
| ISBN | 0881064564 |
For many children, "icky" bugs are endlessly fascinating. This book helps children discover why farmers like the praying mantis, how the water spider breathes underwater, and other intriguing facts about the world of bugs and insects.
Jerry Pallotta's lighthearted text and Ralph Masiello's...
| Author | Cynthia Ozick |
| ISBN | 0525481176 |
Recipient of the first Rea Award for the Short Story (in 1976; other winners Rea honorees include Lorrie Moore, John Updike, Alice Munro), an American Academy of Arts and Letters Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award, and the PEN/Malamud award in 2008.
Upon publication of her 1983 The Shawl,...
| Author | Frank Bonham |
| ISBN | 0590338471 |
Brian's sister and mother vanished without a trace over a year ago. It was not uncommon. People were disappearing everywhere. To Brian, life had become a frightening madness. He knows that in another two years the planet will be unable to support life.
Now suddenly, his father is gone. Fighting...
| Author | Lucy Micklethwait |
| ISBN | 0688147305 |
Fun and mostly well done; a book that can be enjoyed together by children and adults (teachers, parents, grandparents) as the selection of art is excellent and covers a wide range of (mostly Western) paintings from the past six centuries with subject matter appealing to young children (animals, children...
| Author | Fritz Eichenberg |
| ISBN | 0808585169 |
A beginning rhyming alphabet book for young kids, but older kids can enjoy the zaniness of these rhymes. The artwork is detailed and interesting from the 50s. I think it’s very lovely. The rhyme is like the title on each page, short and to the point. There is a ‘Nag with a Bag’ and a ‘Pig with a Wig’,...
| Author | Jane Monroe Donovan |
It may be Christmastime but on a small, forlorn farm the holiday season is best forgotten, along with painful memories of loved ones lost. Mother Nature has other plans, however, and a chance snowstorm brings together two unlikely hearts, one human and one beast, yet both yearning for comfort, companionship,...
| Author | Matt Groening |
| ISBN | 0060951486 |
Right this way, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to another tasty all-you-can-eat collection of Simpsonoid comical funnies, written, penciled, inked, and simmered just for you by your favorite demented cartoon chefs at Bongo Comics. We've got a special meaty comic book stew du jour a-bubblin'...
| Author | David Petersen |
| ISBN | 1936393263 |
Inside the June Alley Inn, located in the western mouse city of Barkstone, mice gather to tell tales, each trying to outdo the other. A competition, of sorts, begins. The rules: Every story must contain one truth, one lie, and have never been told in that tavern before. With the winner getting his bar tab...
| Author | Lynne Cheney |
| ISBN | 0689858191 |
Lynne Cheney and Robin Preiss Glasser collaborated on America: A Patriotic Primer, which captured the imagination of American children and became a national best-seller. Now they turn their hands to A is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing American Women and bring the great women of American history...
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 1401241026 |
The third of four volumes, THE ANNOTATED SANDMAN reprints Neil Gaiman’s THE SANDMAN with annotations by Leslie Klinger (The Annotated Sherlock Holmes, The Annotated Dracula) that delve into the historical and literary references contained in the series. In this volume, Leslie Klinger provides...
| Author | Steve Martin |
| ISBN | 0385516622 |
The acclaimed entertainer and bestselling author Steve Martin and the wildly clever New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast team up in a weird, wonderful excursion through the alphabet.
The ABCs have never had it so good. Created by two of today’s wittiest, most imaginative minds, The Alphabet...
Created in 1984 as a supporting character for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo has vaulted to the very forefront of iconic modern comics characters and is a perennial favorite amongst both children and adult fans. Stuffed with engaging supporting characters, villains,...
| Author | James R. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0787604895 |
This text provides and exploration of 300 angel-related topics. It spans classical and other mythology; Christianity, Islam and other religions; literature and art; ancient, contemporary and popular culture; and psychology. Information is included on angels themselves, the people who depict...
| Author | Sandra Boynton |
| ISBN | 0689859082 |
From the sentimental to the soulful, this book explores, in absolutely no depth whatsoever (yet with a number of lively and perhaps profound illustrations), the many and curious modes of love. Also it rhymes.
This lovely volume is a terrific gifty object (hey, have you ever tried to write book jacket...
| Author | Paul Kidby |
| ISBN | 1473223377 |
Paul Kidby, Sir Terry Pratchett's artist of choice, provided the illustrations for The Last Hero, designed the covers for the Discworld novels since 2002 and is the author of the bestseller The Art Of Discworld.
Now, Paul Kidby has collected the very best of his Discworld illustrations...
| Author | Judith Reeves-Stevens |
| ISBN | 0671017764 |
From the public's first glimpse of the original Starship "Enterprise" to the brave new worlds explored in Star Trek: Voyager, the never-ending phenomenon that is Star Trek has treated generations of viewers to a dazzling barrage of unforgettable images of the future. Bizarre alien beings, breathtaking...
The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems
| Author | Martin Gardner |
| ISBN | 0393061140 |
For more than twenty-five years, Martin Gardner was Scientific American's renowned provocateur of popular math. His yearly gatherings of short and inventive problems were easily his most anticipated math columns. Loyal readers would savor the wit and elegance of his explorations in physics, probability,...
Over the Edge/An Edge in My Voice
| Author | Harlan Ellison |
| ISBN | 1565048296 |
"Razor Sharp Beyond the Edge. Harlan Ellison's stories and essays have been on the cutting edge of contemporary American Literature for over 40 years, but he stubbornly refuses to abandon the use of a manual typewriter. He's involved in every medium from television drama to comic books, and his works...
| Author | Jem Roberts |
| ISBN | 1848093470 |
Jem Roberts, the author of "The Authorised History of 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue'" -- the antidote to panel games, is now moving on to "The Unadulterated True History of THE BLACKADDER."
British history as we know it is a cluttered patchwork of questionable stories which have been re-written, re-evaluated...
| Author | Crockett Johnson |
| ISBN | 0064430235 |
From the creator of the treasured children’s book Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson, comes another adventure for Harold and his magical purple crayon.
Harold is going on an alphabet adventure from A to Z with his trusty purple crayon! This imaginative classic story is just...
The second volume of "Heroes" comics!
NOT SO GOOD AS THE FIRST VOLUME
Well, in the same way that the first seasons (1 & 2) of Heroes were way better than the rest of the TV series...
...is the same case with the second volume of Heroes comic book stories, since while...
