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"Hark! A Vagrant" takes readers on a romp through history and literature--with dignity for few and cookies for all--with comic strips about famous authors, their characters, and political and historical figures, all drawn in Kate Beaton's pared-down, excitable style. This collection features favorite stories as well as new, previously unpublished content. Whether she's writing about Nikola Tesla, Napoleon, or Nancy Drew, Beaton brings a refined sense...
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Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
330 p. ; 22 cm.
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"A brilliant follow-up to the Stephen Leacock Award winner 'The Best Laid Plans,' this deeply funny satire continues the story of Honest Angus McLintock, an amateur politician who dares to do the unthinkable: tell the truth. Just when Daniel Addison thinks he can escape his job as a political aide, Angus McLintock, the no-hope candidate he helped into Parliament, throws icy cold water over his plans. Angus has just brought down the government with...
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Pub. Date
c2009, p2009
Physical Desc
2 sound discs (ca. 150 min.)
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"Ever wondered what really happens on the school trip to Quebec City; or imagined the results when three kids get their hands on a vintage chemistry set? Join Dave, Sam and other friends from the Vinyl Cafe to find out, in over two hours of hilarious and touching stories about the world of boyhood from award-winning storyteller, Stuart McLean. This double CD contains the stories: Planet Boy, The Science Experiment, A Trip to Quebec, The Waterslide,...
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"Ida B. Wells, the Black Prince, and Benito Juárez burst off the pages of Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection, armed with modern-sounding quips and amusingly on-point repartee. Kate Beaton's second D+Q book brings her hysterically funny gaze to bear on these and even more historical, literary, and contemporary figures. Irreverently funny and carefully researched, no target is safe from Beaton's incisive wit in these satirical strips"...
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Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
106 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 18 x 27 cm.
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"What if you can leap tall buildings and defeat alien monsters with your bare hands, but you buy your capes at secondhand stores and have a weakness for kittens? Cartoonist Faith Erin Hicks brings charming humor to the trials and tribulations of a young, female superhero, battling monsters both supernatural and mundane in an all-too-ordinary world"--Publisher's web site.
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Pub. Date
c2012
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149 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
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"As the U.S. political arena increasingly resembles a production of Cats performed by actual cats, Americans are looking for a new leader. That leader is Canada. Yes, under the banner of the Canada Party, the entire country is running for president of the United States."--P. [4] of cover.
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