Berkeley Breathed, Author . Little, Brown $6.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-14425-4
A timid girl only wants some attention from her brother who is too busy fabricating stories to be her friend. When she tells a fib to save the planet, she finally earns his affection. "The alternating ink-and-watercolor caricatures with ultra-h
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Berkeley Breathed, Author . Little, Brown $18.95 (36p) ISBN 978-0-316-71359-7
In this outwardly glib paper-over-board catalogue of homeless dogs, Breathed (Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big
) comments on people's mistreatment of animals. Trouble is, Breathed's flippant satire and visual hyperbole make an odd fit with his...
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Berkeley Breathed, Author Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $7.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-10691-7
With the help of Santa, Opus, the slightly neurotic penguin star of two of Breathed's comic strips, finally gets to fly; PW said, ``Breathed achieves just the right balance of sweetness and levity.'' All ages. (Oct.)
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Berkeley Breathed, Author Little Brown and Company $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-10758-7
Opus, penguin star of Breathed's ``Bloom County'' comic strip, possesses a simple, childlike soul--no wonder, then, that young readers find him appealing. What does prove surprising is that, in his first book for children, Breathed achieves just the
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Berkeley Breathed, Author Little Brown and Company $14.45 (1p) ISBN 978-0-316-10761-7
Breathed's ( A Wish for Wings That Work ) instantly recognizable characters--among them the pusillanimous Opus and the sputtering Bill the Cat--star in this color-saturated, characteristically silly wilderness adventure. Donning his pith helmet, ``Gr
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Berkeley Breathed, Author Little Brown and Company $15.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-316-10853-9
Through characteristically snappy wordplay, cartoonist Breathed ( The Last Basselope ) introduces a true ``goodnight opus'' that's both bedtime tale and vehicle for his own Opus the penguin. According to a self-consciously whimsical narrative--whose
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Berkeley Breathed, Author Little Brown and Company $16.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-316-10881-2
For Breathed (A Wish for Wings That Work; Goodnight Opus), 'tis the season to be laugh-out-loud funny one page and cause a tiny tear to well in a reader's eye the next. Retelling the autobiographical story that his late father related every...
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Berkeley Breathed. IDW, $17.99 trade paper (144p) ISBN SBN 978-1-63140-699-7
Reviving his cult-classic comic strip—which ended its original run in 1989—in 2015 was a smart move for Breathed. He posts the strips on Facebook to a large audience without the stress of a daily schedule or the shrinking size of newspaper comics....
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Berkeley Breathed, Author, Berkeley Breathed, Illustrator . Philomel $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-399-24736-1
In this excessive extraterrestrial fantasy, more painful than funny, Breathed (Flawed Dogs
) lets readers know what mothers are for: general self-sacrifice. Towheaded hero Milo, a mischief-maker, perceives mothers as "bellowing broccoli bullies...
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Berkeley Breathed, Author, Berkeley Breathed, Illustrator . Philomel $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-399-25082-8
A pig named Pete leads a perfectly predictable and sensible existence until Pickles, the runaway circus elephant, turns it upside-down. Pickles possesses the joie de vivre of Auntie Mame (and the extensive wardrobe to carry it off with élan).
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Berkeley Breathed, Author, Berkeley Breathed, Illustrator . Philomel $16.99 (216p) ISBN 978-0-399-25218-1
Bloom County
cartoonist Breathed (Pete & Pickles
) makes the move from picture books to middle-grade fiction and, from the harrowing opening scene at a dog fight, readers will be rapt. After spending eight years isolated at a boarding school in
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Berkeley Breathed, Author, Berkeley Breathed, Illustrator Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $15.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-316-10675-7
""From a long line of liars, there's none higher upper.../ Than my fibbing big brother,/ The Edwurd Fudwupper,"" laments Fannie, a timid girl with freckles and corkscrews of orange hair. She only wants some attention from Edwurd, a mutated Dennis...
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Berkeley Breathed. Philomel, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-399-54662-4
The heart wants what the heart wants, and in this origin story readers learn that Binkley, the human fulcrum of Breathed’s Bloom County, really wanted a cat that looks like it’s suffering from a combination of the world’s worst hangover and the...
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