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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
On an ordinary summer's afternoon, Alice tumbles down a hole and an extraordinary adventure begins. In a strange world with even stranger characters, she meets a grinning cat and a rabbit with a pocket-watch, joins a mad tea party and plays croquet with the Queen. Lost in this fantasy land, Alice finds herself growing more and more curious by the minute.
Publisher
A & E
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Benny Hill: the complete megaset contains Benny's raucous 20-year reign over television's-sketch variety genre, from the naughty early years to the debut of the nubile Hill's Angels, through the final episodes. Witness the birth of crazy caricatures like Fred Scuttle, Chow Mein, and Pierre de Terre. Laugh out loud as Benny and his bevy of buxom babes flaunt their racy rowdiness and tongue-in-cheek satire in characteristically outrageous sketches...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A language barrier is no match for love. Lauren Collins discovered this firsthand when, in her early thirties, she moved to London and fell for a Frenchman named Olivier-- a surprising turn of events for someone who didn't have a passport until she was in college. But what does it mean to love someone in a second language? Collins wonders, as her relationship with Olivier continues to grow entirely in English. Are there things she doesn't understand...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Tom Gauld returns with his wittiest and most trenchant collection of literary cartoons to date. Perfectly composed drawings are punctuated with the artist's signature brand of humor, hitting high and low. After all, Gauld is just as comfortable taking jabs at Jane Eyre and Game of Thrones. Some particularly favored targets include the pretentious procrastinating novelist, the commercial mercenary of the dispassionate editor, the willful obscurantism...
13) Animalia
Author
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams, Inc
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
An alphabet book with fantastic and detailed pictures, bearing such labels as "Lazy lions lounging in the local library" and "Victor V. Vulture the Vaudeville ventriloquist, versatile virtuoso of vociferous verbosity, vexatiously vocalizing at the Valhalla Variety Venue".
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A collection of essays and other nonfiction spanning Terry Pratchett's entire career, from his early years to the present day. A collection of essays and other nonfiction spanning Terry Pratchett's entire career, from his early years to the present day"--
18) Simon's cat
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Originally created as a series of animated cartoons broadcast on youtube.com, Simon's Cat is a collection of drawings by London animator Simon Tofield featuring his cat Simon.
19) Sigmund Freud
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The renowned illustrator presents a pictorial fantasy on Sigmund Freud, turning each major event in Freud's life into a "joking situation" based on the techniques discussed in Freud's Jokes and their relation to the unconscious.
