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Summary: Authoritative! What else can I say?
Review: Fans of Calvin & Hobbes who used to read the newspaper strip in the 80s and 90s will find great pleasure in reading this treasury of C&H comics. These witty comics about the 6-year old Calvin and his stuffed tiger Hobbes, named after the famous philosophers, will amuse people of all ages. The perceptiveness and humor of Watterson deserve the highest of cartoon awards, while his artistic creations exude hilarity. This cartoon is perhaps one of the most piercing yet funny critiques of modern society.This book starts out with Calvin Transmogrifying himself into an elephant so he can memorize his vocabulary in a snap. Naturally, that leads to never-ending funny adventures to entertain adults as well as children. Here we enjoy Calvin playing croquet with Hobbes, their flying carpet adventures, snowballs against Susie, and Spaceman Spiff. Watch him play pilot, archaeologist, annoy Rosalyn the babysitter, and quarrel with Hobbes over the treehouse. Note that there are two series of C&H collections: individual wide-format albums, each covering an entire year of strips (will call it "regular"), and the vertical aspect ratio "treasury series" which covers selected comics from two regular C&H books. Note that C&H ran for a year in newspapers, so there's 10 regular books and 5 treasury books. Though the cartoons are slightly smaller in the treasury collection, each treasury book is far thicker and contains more strips than a regular book, and is furthermore less expensive, so treasury books are a real bargain. "The Authoritative Calvin & Hobbes" belongs to the Treasury collection, and was first released in 1990.
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Summary: This is the best treasury ever written by Bill Watterson.
Review: I am 9 years of age and I have 9 Calvin&Hobbes books.The Athoritative Calvin&Hobbes is the best tresury Calvin&Hobbes Bill Watterson has ever written. One of my favorite strips written in that book is when Calvin pretended that his house was a drive thru.It was a shame Bill had to quit his job as a cartoonist. I was so sad when it happened.I started to collect Calvin&Hobbes when I was 6. The Athoritative Calvin&Hobbes was the last Calvin&Hobbes I had bought. Everyone in my 4th grade class likes Calvin&Hobbes. No one hates them. I mean, who can.
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Summary: Imaginative!
Review: I am a Calvin & Hobbes fan, and I find Calvin a most amusing and imaginative boy. He imagines a lot especially the fact that Hobbes is a real tiger. In fact, I never knew that Hobbes was just a toy, until I read a few more Calvin & Hobbes comics. Thanx, www.amazon.com. and also to B.W. I loved reading this book!
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Summary: Imaginative!
Review: I am a Calvin & Hobbes fan, and I find Calvin a most amusing and imaginative boy. He imagines a lot especially the fact that Hobbes is a real tiger. In fact, I never knew that Hobbes was just a toy, until I read a few more Calvin & Hobbes comics. Thanx, www.amazon.com. and also to B.W. I loved reading this book!
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Summary: Calvin and Hobbes
Review: I Have just started reading Calvin and Hobbes books. I think that they are Great! Calvin is so cute and funny. I wish to get more books on Calvin and Hobbes in the future. Bill Watterson is a great Author! I think that his comic books are the greatest!
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Summary: Deserves more than a 5!
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: CALVIN AND HOBBES ARE #1!!!
Review: I really love Calvin and Hobbes! This book kept me laughing for a long time! I hope I get every single Calvin and Hobbes book someday! I really reccomend any Calvin and Hobbes book!
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Summary: The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes is awesome!
Review: I think Mr. Watterson did a really good job on this treasury. I like how he altertnates color and black-and-white comic strips. I think the comic strips themselves were good choices to be in this book. Read it!
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Summary: Calvin v. Authority
Review: Imagine coming home from school one day and as soon as you open the door, a stuffed tiger attacks you! That's how life is with Calvin, an eight year old terror who has little motivation but a great imagination (which can turn schoolbuses into alien spaceships and he can transmogrify into anything at all)! With his imagination, his stuffed tiger comes to life and 2 have many misadventures. As for Calvin's parents, a line in a popular Joe Walsh song sums up their predicament- they're lucky to be sane after all they've been through! In the winter, Calvin builds a snowfort right on the driveway so Dad can't get out and holds a funeral of a dead snowman (and gets snowballs thrown at him by Hobbes)! At school, he can't be bothered to do his assignments, gets sent to the principal's office, pesters Suzie Derkins, and gets terrorized by the dopey bully Moe. In the summer, Calvin loses a water balloon battle with Suzie (thanks to Hobbes) and goes on boring camping trips with his parents (Mom hates them just as much as Calvin leaving Dad to have all the fun)! Calvin also hates his baby-sitter Roslyn (who isn't too crazy about Cavin either), won't answer the door when she comes, sneaks out of the house with a rope made out of bedsheets and encourages her boyfriend to dump her on the phone! It seems like the only friend in the world he has is his tiger, who's easy to blame everything on! The cartoons from this collection originally appeared in the newspaper in 1987 and 1988.
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Summary: It is okay
Review: It is funny but not as funny as the other Calvin and Hobbes books.
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