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Summary: A book for all ages, it teaches strong lessons about life.
Review: I have used all of the Calvin & Hobbes books as bed-time stories for my two young sons for years. The artwork is engaging and holds their interest, while the writing clearly explains and handles complex issues that all people run in to in their everyday life. From the seeming stupidity of adults to the death of a baby raccoon, Calvin navigates the often dangerous pathways of childhood and learns life's lessons with a gentle humor that gets the point across with an innocent clarity that all ages can understand and appreciate. With Hobbes as his sidekick keeping Calvin's megalomaniacal ravings in perspective and providing a voice of reason in a six year old's quest for the meaning of life, both my sons and I learn a valuable lesson with each page turned. Spaceman Spiff and the ever-destructive T-Rex are favorites for my sons, as well as the special and beautifully done extended stories in the front of each book created just for these collections. I can start at the beginning of one book, work my way through to the end of the last, and start back at the beginning of the first one again, and the same strips appear fresh and new to all who read them. Bill Waterson's genius for showing complex issues in a clear light will be missed, but the world, and my son's bedtime stories, are richer for his labors. Highly recommended, to fans of the strip and to anyone who thinks that the best humor is the truth.
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Summary: One of the best!
Review: I love the Essential Calvin and Hobbes best. As I have other collections also: Authoritave, Indispensable, It's a magic world, There's treasure everywhere, The days are just packed, Something under the bed is drooling and Yukon Ho. I think the big books includes comics from the small books, so I think I've read all of them, except the tenth anniversary.
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Summary: Deserves more than 5 stars!
Review: I loved Calvin and Hobbes when i was a little kid and I still do now! They're hillarious and Calvin reminds me so much of myself at his age (not in every aspect). Especially our family camp trips. calvin and his mom remind me so much of myself and my mom when our dad took us camping and it turned out to be a disaster, lol. These cartoons make me want to be a kid again. Almost everyone has said this but I'll say it again. You'll start out planning to read a few pages but you won't stop there. you can't. it's so additive. some of the younger kids might not understand some of the big words but older kids will. But I think that grownups will enjoy them the most. With the purchase of this collection all the sunday comics are colored and you also get a monster never before seen cartoon. Get them all!
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: I miss Calvin & Hobbes. Their last cartoon strip closed out a special era in my life, and it made me really sad. I haven't picked up the comics page since.
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Summary: Is an angry Muscovite called a Moscowler?
Review: I own every Calvin and Hobbes ever published, including all of the treasuries containing excerpts from the yearly compilations. Of course, that is a bit redundant, but for some reason I enjoy reading through the treasuries almost as much as I enjoy reading the sequential comics in the compilations. I would reccomend getting all the books and saving the treasuries for after you have them all. One treasury I especially like is the tenth anniversary book, and I would reccomend that be your first collection after buying all the compilations.
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Summary: Gosh!! I laughed to death!!
Review: It's pure fun. It makes you laugh -- a lot. But, also, it
makes you think a lot about our world and about ourselves, like when he found a little racoon that was healed.
This is a great book. I'd recommend it even to the ones
that don't like cartoons. Because this one is a book about
common people -- like you and your son.
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Summary: What more do you want?
Review: Let's face it: nothing negative can be said about Calvin and Hobbes. It's closer to perfect than any other comic strip in the known multiverse. I can't even count the number of times I've poured through these collections; I must have literally hundreds of strips eternally locked in my brain. If you don't love Watterson's work, there is something very, very wrong with you. Thank you.
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Summary: Comics make readers
Review: Newspapers these days seem largely devoid of comic strips. Thick-bound comic books like this one have replaced them. And fortunately, comics make kids into readers.I was delighted the other day when a neighbor gave me five Calvin and Hobbes volumes, including this one. The books have already encouraged hours of reading for each child. This collection opens with a 10-page poem narrated by a child--Calvin, it turns out--afraid to sleep at night lest monsters snatch him in his sleep. Only in the morning, he feared, would his parents "surmise/ The gruesomeness of my demise/ And see that my remains are in a heap!" (One parent, in this musing, appears with a bone in one hand, and a shrug of the shoulders, though the kid wakes up fine the next day.) Another 79 comic strips follow, ranging in length from one or two pages to five, and filling a total of 255 pages. Rare is the 250 page-book that a young boy or girl will gladly consume in one sitting. Trust me, this is one of them. In two recent evenings, our two kids have sat on our sofa, devouring this book one after the other, hooting and guffawing their way through. Ready, set, read. Alyssa A. Lappen
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Summary: Calvin And Hobbes Rule.
Review: Some of the early works of Bill Watterson. This is a great book tracing the irrepressible Calvin and his "pet" tiger, Hobbes. As he has explained, Bill Watterson will slowly develop this character in accuracy and style over the next seven years. Great repartie and pranks are pulled by this duo on the always weary Mom and Dad and a battle of wills with his steel hard babysitter, Rosalyn, makes a great couple of interludes.
Still, a great book and for Calvin and Hobbes fans, a must in your collection.
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Summary: Calvin And Hobbes Rule.
Review: Some of the early works of Bill Watterson. This is a great book tracing the irrepressible Calvin and his "pet" tiger, Hobbes. As he has explained, Bill Watterson will slowly develop this character in accuracy and style over the next seven years. Great repartie and pranks are pulled by this duo on the always weary Mom and Dad and a battle of wills with his steel hard babysitter, Rosalyn, makes a great couple of interludes.
Still, a great book and for Calvin and Hobbes fans, a must in your collection.
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