Download or read book Betsy and Me written by Jack Cole and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having mastered comic books and gag cartoons, in 1958 Jack Cole set his sights on the cartoonist's pot of gold—a syndicated newspaper strip. He hit the bull's-eye with Betsy and Me, a breezy domestic farce focusing on a middle-class urban couple and their smart-aleck genius son. Betsy and Me was an instant success and newpapers were lining up to buy it. Then, with only two-and-a-half month's worth of strips completed, Cole purchased a .22 caliber pistol and ended his life. For Betsy and Me, featuring city dweller Chet Tibbit's day-to-day stuggles and achievements, Cole stripped his style down to its bare essentials, creating a strip that sparkles with economy, wit, and charm. What gave the strip its edge, however, was Cole's innovative storytelling. As R.C. Harvey writes in his introduction, "Cole's storytelling manner was unique: the comedy arose from the pictures' contradicting the narrative prose. Cole's fatuous protagonist and narrator would say one thing in the captions accompanying the drawings, but the pictures of his actions showed the opposite, revealing [him] to be a trifle pretentious and wholly delusional." Harvey's intro also serves as a biographical sketch and sheds light on the circumstances surrounding Cole's suicide. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.9px Arial; color: #424242}
Download or read book You Hear Me written by Betsy Franco and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of stories, poems, and essays by adolescent boys on issues that concern them, including identity, girls, death, anger, appearance, and family.
Download or read book Scare Me written by K. R. Alexander and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunted house has come to life in this spine-tingling novel from the author of The Collector. They've lost control of the haunted house.Every year, the town of Happy Hills holds its haunted house contest. In a spooky old manor, teams of kids come up with new ways to frighten people. The scariest team wins.But this year, all the teams are going to lose. Because this year the house itself has awakened . . . and it won't be happy until it's devoured all the people inside. What started out as a game has turned into something much more deadly.Is there any way out?
Download or read book Looking for Me written by Betsy R. Rosenthal and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1936 Baltimore, an eleven-year-old Jewish girl, one of twelve siblings, tries to find her place in her overcrowded family.
Download or read book Double the Danger and Zero Zucchini written by Betsy Uhrig and published by Margaret K. McElderry Books. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young boy attempts to transform his aunt’s boring children’s book into an exciting one in this funny, fast-paced adventure perfect for fans of the Book Scavenger series! Books aren’t supposed to be dangerous. Are they? Alex Harmon prefers running over sitting still reading. But when his aunt offers to pay him to point out the boring parts in her children’s book, he figures it’s an easy way to make ten bucks. The problem is that her book is about a grumpy frog and a prize-winning zucchini. It doesn’t have only a few boring pages…the whole thing is a lost cause. Alex gives his aunt some ideas to help her out—like adding danger and suspense. But books can’t just be interesting. They also have to be believable. Soon Alex recruits his friends to help him act out scenes so he can describe all the important details. He’s even getting plot twists from a mysterious stranger (who might also be a ghost). Too late, Alex discovers that being a real-life stunt double for a fictional character can land you in terrible trouble—even if your friends are laughing their heads off!
Download or read book Me Tarzan written by Betsy Byars and published by HarperColl. This book was released on 2002-10-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ahh-Ahh-Ahh-Ahhhh! Dorothy knows she could make a great Tarzan in the class play, even if she is a girl. When she gets up to introduce the world to her primal yell, something comes over her -- something wild and untamed. She gets the part, but Dorothy's not the only one with jungle fever. Her Tarzan yell seems to have an effect on all nearby animals, and when the circus comes to town the night of the class play, things start to get a whole lot wilder! Betsy Byars is one of the most celebrated and beloved writers of children's books today.
Download or read book Swim to Me written by Betsy Carter and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a fresh start for Delores Walker when she boards a Greyhound bus bound for Florida. Leaving the Bronx far behind, she's headed for sunny Weeki Wachee Springs, frayed roadside attraction in danger of becoming obsolete with the opening of Walt Disney's latest creation, only miles up the road. Always more suited for a life underwater, Delores joins a group of other aquatic hopefuls in this City of Live Mermaids, where she discovers a world of sequined tails and amphibious theme shows that even Disney couldn't dream up. It's in this fantastic place of make-believe and reinvention that Delores Walker becomes Delores Taurus, Florida's most unlikely celebrity. Bringing together an eccentric assortment of outcasts, poseurs, and underdogs, this wise and poignant novel conjures up a time in America when anything was possible, especially in the Sunshine State. A story of family, chasing dreams and finding your way, Swim To Me will have you believing the impossible—even in mermaids from the Bronx.
Download or read book Q A a Day for Me written by Betsy Franco and published by Potter Style. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So much can happen in three years in a teen's life. Help them record it all with this daily journal. The perfect gift for a teen, Q&A a Day for Me is a one-sentence diary that prompts any teen to record best friends, worst haircuts, favorite outfits, and embarrassing moments. Filled with 365 questions, one on each page for every day of the year, a teen has the space to write down a short response every year for three years. It’s easy to get started—just turn to today’s date and take a minute to answer the question at the top of the page. As the years pass, he or she will have a keepsake time capsule that shows how much his or her answers change (and which ones remain the same)!
Download or read book Welcome to Dweeb Club written by Betsy Uhrig and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jason Sloane and his seventh-grade friends are the first to sign up for a strange new club that monitors school security footage, but when the new computers show the club members themselves as unlikable high school seniors five years in the future they scramble to solve the mystery.
Download or read book You re Not the Boss of Me written by Betsy Brown Braun and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every parent who has ever wanted to scream, “Save me! My child is acting like a brat!” there’s You’re Not the Boss of Me. Filling a critical void in parenting manuals, revered childhood development and behavior expert Betsy Brown Braun, bestselling author of Just Tell Me What to Say, dispenses invaluable advice on how to brat-proof kids during the formative ages 4 through 12.
Download or read book Betsy and the Great World written by Maud Hart Lovelace and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1996-03-31 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betsy tours Europe in 1914.
Download or read book Me First written by Ellen Rudin and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pig sisters Betsy and Bonnie begin an innocent game to see who can perform certain tasks first, but the fun wears off for Bonnie when Betsy becomes obsessed with winning every time.
Download or read book Taffy Sinclair Baby Ashley and Me written by Betsy Haynes and published by Skylark. This book was released on 1987-12 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane and Taffy find a baby abandoned on the front steps of their school and become overnight celebrities.
Download or read book Spelled written by Betsy Schow and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairy Tale Survival Rule #32: If you find yourself at the mercy of a wicked witch, sing a romantic ballad and wait for your Prince Charming to save the day. Yeah, no thanks. Dorthea is completely princed out. Sure being the crown princess of Emerald has its perks—like Glenda Original ball gowns and Hans Christian Louboutin heels. But a forced marriage to the not-so-charming prince Kato is so not what Dorthea had in mind for her enchanted future. Talk about unhappily ever after. Trying to fix her prince problem by wishing on a (cursed) star royally backfires, leaving the kingdom in chaos and her parents stuck in some place called "Kansas." Now it's up to Dorthea and her pixed off prince to find the mysterious Wizard of Oz and undo the curse...before it releases the wickedest witch of all and spells The End for the world of Story.
Download or read book Betsy Beads written by Betsy Hershberg and published by XRX Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Craft.
Download or read book Just Tell Me What to Say written by Betsy Brown Braun and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parents are often perplexed by their children's typical behaviors and inevitable questions. This down-to-earth guide provides "Tips and Scripts" for handling everything from sibling rivalry and the food wars to questions about death, divorce, sex, and "whyyyy?" Betsy Brown Braun blends humor with her expertise as a child development specialist, popular parent educator, and mother of triplets. Whatever your dilemma or child's question—from "How did the baby get in your tummy?" to "What does 'dead' mean?" to "It's not fair!"—Betsy offers the tools and confidence you need to explain the world to your growing child.
Download or read book Understood Betsy written by Dorothy Canfield Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timid and small for her age, nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann discovers her own abilities and gains a new perception of the world around her when she goes to live with relatives on a farm in Vermont.
