 | | |
| Teaching Is a Learning Experience!: A For Better or For Worse Collection (For Better or for Worse Collections) | 
 enlarge | Author: Lynn Johnston
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $12.99
Buy New: $5.45
You Save: $7.54 (58%)
Buy New/Used from $4.50
Avg. Customer Rating:  (6 reviews)
Sales Rank: 319328
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 8.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0740763547
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.56971
EAN: 9780740763540
ASIN: 0740763547
Publication Date: March 1, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Lynn Johnston's award-winning For Better or For Worse comic strip is the world's most popular strip in which characters evolve through age and experience, rather than remaining frozen in time. Fans appreciate that the daily doings of the Patterson family often closely resemble their own.Featuring more than 43 weeks of strips, with Sundays in color, this collection features Elizabeth's developing teaching skills working in a northern First Nation's community, Mike and Deanna's move to Mrs. Saltzman's upstairs apartment, April's confrontation of teenage issues like acne and self-image, while John and Elly face middle-age ailments and the possibility of retirement. For Better of For Worse has been syndicated since 1979 and has been named Best Syndicated Comic Strip by the National Cartoonists Society. The strip boasts a lively Web presence at www.fborfw.com
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 Re; For Better of For Worse "Teaching Is A Learing Experience" April 7, 2008
I have always been a huge fan of For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston and, this book is no exception. This one focuses on Elizabeth and her teaching in the North Country. She sure has grown up since we first saw her as a toddler! She is a talented and extremely capable young woman.
I love these people July 14, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I know it's a cartoon, but Lynn Johnston captures home life so well that I feel I've known this family intimately for years. I'm fascinated by Elizabeth's choice to teach in such a remote area. I learn so much from her experiences there. I've got all the books from the first and frequently reread them from start to finish. This latest is in perfect keeping with the others. As Lynn takes us further from home base, we become involved with those extended people in the lives of Ellie's children. There's a whole world there that we will miss when Lynn decides it's time to pack it in.
 Another winner April 7, 2007
Lynn Johnston has done it again. What a great treasury of her cartoons - we can see the entire family growing through their own thing - at the same time we can feel the family sticking together.
I was a bit surprised at the arrival of the "attack" Elizabeth storyline - as I always find that Lynn's world is a little sugary, but it was well done and is obviously a ploy to bring Anthony back into the fold.
Great series.
More than an experience! April 2, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
As a teacher, I have found this particular volume of Lynn Johnson's to touch a particular chord with me. But then again, I have been using her cartoon strips to teach with, for years. Her gentle yet penetrating way of looking at life with children, from babyhood through the teen years with its peer pressure, to adulthood, make me laugh out loud and cry as well. Long may she put out her strip, well into great grandmotherhood!
Another Great book ... March 30, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Another Great book to visit the Patterson's with. "For Better / For Worse" has to be one of the best comic strips of all time. It really makes you think, "They are just like my family", and if you do not have kids, read the books so you know what to prepare for.
|
|
|
Powered by Associate-O-Matic
| | |