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If you do not know about this book you should read it. It is about a girl who is very bad at baceball and she was traded for a girl named Marcie and a pizza.I think it is funny because Marcie does not know apparently anything about baseball. If you like this Peanuts book read more--they're all great!

I like this book. It is very weird and also very funny. I laughed more with Lucy, because she brought a trolley at the baseball game, so that the ball could get very easy in.Congratulations to the publisher.

This is an excellent reference for the researcher in number theory. The audience for this book would consist of professional mathematicians and university libraries.

This Book is a cornerstone in Arithmetic Geometry.

It is the first time in a single Book so different
arguments find a common place.

Let me say that the idea of dividing the work into
three parts,depending on the approach, is entirely
new. In fact,

Part 1 starts with elementary theory & applications(primes,diophantine equations& approx)

Part 2 gives an account of recent ideas and theory
(ch.3:Logic & Recursion, with a sketch of proof of
Matiyasevic's Theorem;ch.4:Algebraic NumberTheory;
ch.5:Arithmetic of Algebraic Varieties;ch.6: deals
with Zeta functions and modular forms;ch.7:gives a
picture, complete indeed, of Wiles'proof of Fermat
Last Theorem)

Part 3 gives "Analogies and Visions",i.e. the link
between numbers fields and function fields(usually
this analogy is only admitted, but never explained
in other books) and other analogies involving many
recent arguments in Arithmetic Geometry (such as :
Schottky uniformization, Arakelov Geometry, Zetas,
Dynamics and Cohomology).

Gary Larson should'nt of ahve retired from cartoons. He is so good

These are some of the funniest Far Side cartoons. This is probably the funniest Far Side collection, in my opinion. A must have for any real Far Side fan.

This cute little book (31 pages, excluding the title page and so forth) is another excellent example of the work of the incomparable Charles M. Schulz. In this book, Peppermint Patty decides she wants to organize a football team, so she grabs Marcie and begins instructing her in how to play football. Marcie may be a willing volunteer, but she has no idea how to play football, and Patty's football lessons end in hilarious disaster!

When I was a child, I absolutely loved the Peanuts, and I am so pleased that my own children have now fallen in love with those same funny characters. This book is large and attractive, with brightly colored pictures that are sure to please the young reader (and Peanuts fans of all ages)! My children and I highly recommend this book to you!

Kick the Ball, Marcie is a humorous conversation between Marcie and Peppermint Patty about playing football.

When watching the Peanuts on television or reading the comics, I didn't realize how funny Marcie was. She is a deadpan riot next to the seriously focused Peppermint Patty. Patty is trying to get Marcie involved in the process of football, while Marcie does not really care one way or the other.

This book is a really good introduction into subtle humor for children. I was smiling throughout this book. At one point, I was shocked in a funny way as to how Marcie tackled Peppermint Patty.

Children need to be introduced to humor and Kick the Ball, Marcie fits the bill.

Some easy and fun ideas for soap making. Well worth the price - you get a lot for your money here.

This book is wonderful for teaching kids a new craft. You use basic melt and pour glycerin base that's bought at a craft store, and tons of other items to make a unique bar of soap. This book has recipes for dog soap (soap to wash your dog with), soap balls that look like eyeballs and happy faces, alaphabet soap that you use cookie cutters to cut out the letters, soaps you put small toys into, and moldable play-dough type soap. I really liked making the moldable soap for my friends who had children who hated taking baths. You'll also learn how you can paint designs onto the soap with candle/soap paints.
All of the instructions are very easy to read and easy to follow so kids can't make a mistake. Toward the end of the book, an 11 year old describes how she turned a present into a hobby. She found that her soapmaking kit was so fun to use, she decided to sell her soaps to people and turned it into a business! She explains how other kids can do the same and what stuff they'd need for it.

Overall, Soapmaking: 50 Fun and Fabulous Soaps to Melt and Pour is a wonderful book for kids and adults that want to learn how to make homemade soap.

Little Lulu is a nice revisit, in this bound-book of comics from years ago. Her adventures take us back to the simple but clever, Peanuts-style mischief and kid-capers. Since I can only read 2 or 3 stories at a time, it will take me a while to finish one of these volumes (at over 100 pages each - that's several oldie comic books). These cartoon books are a good value, I think, and a fun break from my serious history and lit readings.

My 8-year old daughter is crazy for Little Lulu! She devours these books in no time at all. They recently kept her entertained on a long plane trip and in hotel rooms. She likes the drawings and finds them very very funny -- this is truly timeless humor.

The adventures of Lulu and her friends continue as Lulu and Alvin ride a runaway elephant and as Lulu scams the boys as a Gypsy fortune teller. The boys in turn scam Lulu when they build and "launch" a rocket to Mars. Tubby concocts perfume with his chemistry set that turns Gloria into a puppy, and he gives her the Evil Eye when she breaks a date with him. Of special interest in this edition are three Witch Hazel stories, one including her giant son "Calvin." Tubby has been solving crimes for several editions, but this edition marks his first appearance as "The Spider," as he solves, in disguise as usual, the crime of how the egg wound up in Lulu's pop's shoe. TOO MUCH FUN is a delightful extension of these Lulu reprints.

I recently finished plowing through the collected paperback editions of the classic 1940s/1950s "Little Lulu" comics, and wanted to put in my vote... yes! yes! yes! True, it's a little disappointing that the strips are reprinted in black-&-white and not in the original color versions, but the real genius of these works is in the draftsmanship of artists John Stanley and Irving Tripp, and once you get onto their wavelength, even these half-size B&W reprints are a pure delight. They can say so much with such economy -- a single panel of Lulu's unbridled mischief can have you laughing your head off, and here, in this multi-volume collection, you've got a real treasure trove of some of the best graphic-art humor produced in the 20th Century. Great stuff, highly recommended, and major kudos to Dark Horse for making this artwork both available and affordable.

What can one say? Little Lulu rules! Girl-friendly but not feminist, drawings clean of line, sweetly innocent storylines unburdened by sweaty "realism", suitable for all ages.

Regrettably Dark Horse has (for now) chosen to make Lulu #18 the finale of this series of extremely entertaining classic comics. Get them all!

I haven't missed a volume in Dark Horse's series of Little Lulu reprints. I like them far more than I anticipated, but I bought them primarily for my son.
There are no other books that my kid looked forward to so seriously and enjoyed so thoroughly as these. He's spent many hours reading, and often chuckling over, the adventures of Little Lulu and her friends. These strips may be forty or fifty years old, but they haven't dated a day in their ability to entrance a child. Forerunner to both Peanuts and Calvin & Hobbes, Little Lulu's well-told, humorous stories often amuse on more than one level, and never talk down to their audience.
I noticed that no forthcoming volumes were listed anywhere, so I communicated with Dark Horse and was told that the series has been discontinued with this volume.
When I told my son, he went, "Awwwwww!", the way kids do when deeply disappointed.
I'd like to thank the people at Dark Horse for making available as much Little Lulu as they did. I know it's corny, but they really don't write them like this anymore.

I recently finished plowing through the collected paperback editions of the classic 1940s/1950s "Little Lulu" comics, and wanted to put in my vote... yes! yes! yes! True, it's a little disappointing that the strips are reprinted in black-&-white and not in the original color versions, but the real genius of these works is in the draftsmanship of artists John Stanley and Irving Tripp, and once you get onto their wavelength, even these half-size B&W reprints are a pure delight. They can say so much with such economy -- a single panel of Lulu's unbridled mischief can have you laughing your head off, and here, in this multi-volume collection, you've got a real treasure trove of some of the best graphic-art humor produced in the 20th Century. Great stuff, highly recommended, and major kudos to Dark Horse for making this artwork both available and affordable.

I think that Little Lulu Volume 7 is the best issue in the whole collection because of the theme and the stories were side-splitting.I can't wait for another Volume of Little Lulu!

I recently finished plowing through the collected paperback editions of the classic 1940s/1950s "Little Lulu" comics, and wanted to put in my vote... yes! yes! yes! True, it's a little disappointing that the strips are reprinted in black-&-white and not in the original color versions, but the real genius of these works is in the draftsmanship of artists John Stanley and Irving Tripp, and once you get onto their wavelength, even these half-size B&W reprints are a pure delight. They can say so much with such economy -- a single panel of Lulu's unbridled mischief can have you laughing your head off, and here, in this multi-volume collection, you've got a real treasure trove of some of the best graphic-art humor produced in the 20th Century. Great stuff, highly recommended, and major kudos to Dark Horse for making this artwork both available and affordable.

In 2004 Dark Horse obtained the rights to re-print the Little Lulu comics and fans have been happy ever since. Seven volumes were released in 2005 with this volume, number 8, being the first to arrive in 2006. The collections reprint the Dell comics that began in 1945 featuring Marge Buell's character that was originally created for the Saturday Evening Post. The Dell comics were handled by legendary cartoonist John Stanley who wrote the stories and did the layouts. Stanley was also well known for his Nancy & Sluggo comics, also for Dell. Finished art was provided by Irv Tripp. Little Lulu at it's height was certainly as popular as Peanuts and comic fans are thankful to Dark Horse for bringing these brilliant comics back in print.

The cast of Little Lulu includes her parents. Alvin, Tubby Tomkins, Annie and more. This latest volume provides some 200 pages of single page comics, and multi-page stories. In one, Lulu decides to dress up as a boy in order to join the boys club and foil their plot to runaway from school...after all the girls can't keep being the best students in school if there are no boys to be compared to...When Lulu is given the dare of stealing the rival gang's flag, you know she's in for trouble. In another lively story, Lulu wins a live turkey from a butcher shop but refuses to have it killed for Thanksgiving and instead takes it home as a pet, but all her dad can see is diner!

Tubby not only co-stars with Lulu but also gets several solo stories of his own. In one he does his best to get away from his annoying little cousin Pete but Pete turns the tables on him in the end. In another, Tubby is asked by his mother to pickup their Christmas tree which tubby is sure is the biggest and best in town. But when that rat, rich kid Wilbur ruins Tubby's tree, Tubby has to find a quick alternative...and all he has is .15 cents. Lulu and Tubby have several adventures together including a ski trip where Tubby promises to give Lulu lessons, with remarkable results.

These collections show a true master of cartooning at work. Stanley's sense of timing, sight gags, and one-liners mark him as one of the genre's all-time greats. This is classic material in every sense of the word. This just proves again that great comic strips never get old!

Reviewed by Tim Janson