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Summary: Not Feiffer's best
Review: Picked this up after "A barrel of laughs, a vale of tears", and found it merely diverting rather than life changing. It's a nice enough story, and probably means a lot to him as a drawing artist, but doesn't resonate as well to the non-pencil holder, I think.-dB
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Summary: An Inspirational Book
Review: The Man in the Ceiling is a fast paced story about a young boy's childhood, told like only a young child can tell it. Jules Feiffer creates an alternate world that adults are not often part of, drawing the reader into that remembered world, even if the reader is an adult. The story is one of the artistically struggling young Jimmy who strives to find his talent and himself. His major artistic inspiration is his sailing Uncle Lester the playwright, who first betrays him and then helps him take that final leap towards reaching his goal. I would definitely recommend the reading of this inspirational book, young or old.
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Summary: A fabulous, funny, feel-good story!
Review: This is an absolutely wonderful work of art! The poignant story of a boy's discovery of his own ability to push past failures to accomplish something difficult is studded with laugh-out-loud portraits of family members, and hilarious episodes of family life. It is filled with truth and love. And the cartoons and illustrations are an entirely wonderful addition to the story. They are excellent in their own right, and add immeasurably to the tale. My daughter picked this book out of the library at random, was glued to it for a day, and told me I should read it. Boy, was she right! Try it, and see if you don't come up laughing and crying at the end.
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Summary: Holiday Montessori Chat & Chew review
Review: We are a group of students in Kansas City, Mo. that read books and discuss them over our lunch. Our grades are 4th -6th. We all had different opinions of the book. Most of us really enjoyed the comics, some of related to the fact that he could not draw hands. Many of us related to his family life. His father worked very hard and found it difficult to show emotion. One day the family went to a play produced by their artistic uncle. The father saw himself in the play as he acted towards his family. The character that he compared himself to was a robot with no emotion. After the play he tried to show more emotion to his family. The main character Jimmy is nothing like his father.For one,Jimmy likes to draw comics and is more of a artistic kind of kid unlike his father who likes baseball and his work.Then there is this boy at school (Charlie Beemer)who wants for Jimmy to draw his ideas in exchange for his friendship.Jimmy likes to draw his own ideas.In the end his father finds more time for his family. In all we all think that you will like the book THE MAN IN THE CELLING.
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