Tomi Ungerer
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English
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The for-adults collection of humorous comics by the award-winning children's book author—whom Maurice Sendak called a "marvelous cartoonist"—in a newly designed edition.
Director Jonathan Miller, from his introduction to the 1964 edition: "Ungerer illustrates a world where things are coming apart, where the old unquestioned entities are at best provisional arrangements, loosely thrown together and never to be relied upon." The humorous comics...
2) Babylon
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English
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The third book in Fantagraphics ongoing project to reprint Tomi Ungerer’s 1970s-1980s satirical work, Babylon may be the most sobering collection so far, an example of his humor at its blackest. Drawn entirely in pencil, these fully rendered images, reproduced in lush, dense, gray tones, rival the satirical vitriol of his anti-war posters of the previous decade, radiating repulsion at what human beings can do to one another in the guise of “civilization.”...
3) Crictor
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English
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Description
An agreeable pet boa constrictor earns the affection and gratitude of a French village.
4) Moon man
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English
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Description
The man in the moon outwits the police in several escapades on Earth with the help of his waxing and waning powers and the friendship of a 300-year-old scientist.
7) The hat
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English
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A handsome black top hat changes penniless Benito Badoglio's life.
8) Flat Stanley
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English
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"Based on the original Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown"--T.p. verso.
A picture book version of the story in which a bulletin board falls on Stanley while he is sleeping, and he finds that being flat has its advantages.
9) Fog Island
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Publisher
Phaidon
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
No one has ever returned from the mysterious Fog Island, but when Finn and Cara get castaway on its murky shores, they discover things are not quite as they expect. Will anyone ever believe them?
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Publisher
Phaidon Press
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
"One day, brave and adventurous Adelaide leaves her kangaroo family behind and flies off to see the world. She visits lots of exciting places but eventually she decides to stay in Paris where she finds fame, fortune and a handsome kangaroo called Leon"--
16) Nonstop
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Publisher
Phaidon Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In this final masterpiece from the late Tomi Ungerer, Earth is devastated and empty. Everyone has escaped to the moon, except Vasco. Luckily, Vasco has his shadow to guide him, and he finds little green Poco, someone to care for and bring to safety. Nonstop dangers await Vasco and baby Poco at every corner, but Vasco's shadow rescues and guides them through destroyed cities and apocalyptic landscapes to safety. It's a timely, thought-provoking tale...
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Harper & Row, Publishers
Pub. Date
©1971
Language
English
Description
A collection of nonsense stories in which Papa Snap is eaten by a sofa, Uncle Rimsky lights his cigars with dragons, Mrs. Maroon irons her laundry with a steam roller, and Mr. Tuber Sprout gets up to miss the train every morning.
20) Emile
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English
Description
A story of an octopus who decides to try living on land and how he becomes a hero.