Children at Play: A Cul de Sac Collection

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amy alice, March 6, 2013 (view all comments by amy alice)
Alice Otterloop is the main character in these cartoons, and her whimsical manner of observing "regular" things around her allows the reader to gain new perspectives, too.

Alice and her friends at Blisshaven Preschool will help you giggle and enjoy the simple things in life ~ whether she is singing on top of the manhole cover, or deciding what to do about gum stuck to a drinking fountain, or playing with Dill and her other friends in the park, or creating art in her preschool class, with extra glitter, or playing with Mr. Dander, the guinea pig at school ~ you will be amused.

You also get to meet her brother, Petey, who creates shadow box after shadow box, and prides himself on being one of the pickiest eaters in the world ~ he is #17, and would be #16, but...he ate the rind on his bologna one day! He hates to have his food touch each other, and his way of looking at things gives the reader whole new pictures of living styles.

One reviewer felt that it wasn't funny if you didn't have kids; I don't have kids, and I laugh out loud when I get to see Alice in a Cul de Sac cartoon.

simple things ~ simple humor ~ smiles each time you get to read about Alice and her family and the gang at Blisshaven.

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amy alice, March 6, 2013 (view all comments by amy alice)
Alice Otterloop is the main character in these cartoons, and her whimsical manner of observing "regular" things around her allows the reader to gain new perspectives, too.

Alice and her friends at Blisshaven Preschool will help you giggle and enjoy the simple things in life ~ whether she is singing on top of the manhole cover, or deciding what to do about gum stuck to a drinking fountain, or playing with Dill and her other friends in the park, or creating art in her preschool class, with extra glitter, or playing with Mr. Dander, the guinea pig at school ~ you will be amused.

You also get to meet her brother, Petey, who creates shadow box after shadow box, and prides himself on being one of the pickiest eaters in the world ~ he is #17, and would be #16, but...he ate the rind on his bologna one day! He hates to have his food touch each other, and his way of looking at things gives the reader whole new pictures of living styles.

One reviewer felt that it wasn't funny if you didn't have kids; I don't have kids, and I laugh out loud when I get to see Alice in a Cul de Sac cartoon.

simple things ~ simple humor ~ smiles each time you get to read about Alice and her family and the gang at Blisshaven.

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Deadhouseplants, December 17, 2009 (view all comments by Deadhouseplants)
In regards to this book, all I can say is this; if I didn't have children, this book would be of no value to me. The content or material of each strip isn't overly funny. As a matter of fact, the majority of the strips garnered no laughs at all. Is this a bad thing? No, because Peanuts isn't funny to me either. Calvin & Hobbes was sometimes funny, but was more or less an enjoyable read. I think that's where I put this book, it's not funny, but the content is charming and uplifting. I was able to read the whole book in one sitting, and never once had the urge to put it down.

Every strip I read, I could relate to some instance in my sons' lives. From how they interact with their friends, to how they view the world in where as adults we really don't see it. One strip in particular has Alice sitting with her friends, and they're discussing the fact the people usually eat a pound of bugs in their lifetimes. To which her friends wonder how a person consumes that many bugs. They come to the conclusion that adults hide it in food that kids like, or foods with raisin in it. Again, not funny, charming in the essence in that that's how a child's mind works.

I would probably suggest this book to someone who is feeling down, or maybe an expectant first time parent. I read this book in about an hour and a half to an hour and forty-five minutes. So I'm pretty sure it's kind of short for a long travel reading.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780740789878

Author:

Thompson, Richard

Publisher:

Andrews McMeel Publishing

Foreword by:

Willems, Mo

Foreword:

Willems, Mo

Subject:

Non-Classifiable

Subject:

Form - Comic Strips & Cartoons

Subject:

American wit and humor, pictorial

Subject:

Children

Subject:

Humor-Cartoon Comics

Subject:

Cartoons

Copyright:

2009

Publication Date:

20091031

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Language:

English

Illustrations:

Y

Pages:

128

Dimensions:

9 x 8.5 in 12.075 oz