Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes

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Summary: Learning from Calvin and Hobbes
Review: For a few lucky educators and students in the Midwestern United States in the mid-1990s, this must have been a useful and fun book. Published in Fargo, North Dakota, in 1993 under a limited official license from Universal Press Syndicate, it is a children's school textbook written around Calvin and Hobbes comic strips. The strips contained in the book comprise famous Calvin and Hobbes story arcs, and the lessons and questions about the characters' personalities, dialogue, and adventures are marvelous. "What do you think the principal meant when he said they had 'quite a file' on Calvin?" -p. 108. A beautiful quality of the book is the feeling you get reading it, knowing that it was developed primarily for children with learning disabilities. You feel that a unique and noble potential of the unforgettable Calvin and Hobbes was realized through this book. Unfortunately, according to the publisher, only a very few copies of this wonderful book were authorized to be printed in a once-only print run in 1993.

Rating:
Summary: Learning from Calvin and Hobbes
Review: For a few lucky educators and students in the Midwestern United States in the mid-1990s, this must have been a useful and fun book. Published in Fargo, North Dakota, in 1993 under a limited official license from Universal Press Syndicate, it is a children's school textbook written around Calvin and Hobbes comic strips. The strips contained in the book comprise famous Calvin and Hobbes story arcs, and the lessons and questions about the characters' personalities, dialogue, and adventures are marvelous. "What do you think the principal meant when he said they had 'quite a file' on Calvin?" -p. 108. A beautiful quality of the book is the feeling you get reading it, knowing that it was developed primarily for children with learning disabilities. You feel that a unique and noble potential of the unforgettable Calvin and Hobbes was realized through this book. Unfortunately, according to the publisher, only a very few copies of this wonderful book were authorized to be printed in a once-only print run in 1993.