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The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes (1992)

by Bill Watterson

Series: Calvin and Hobbes (5 & 6)

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A selection of cartoons from the comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes," in which Calvin goes to the beach, watches a sunset with his father, and seeks revenge on his baby-sitter.
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Indispensable in every way - The Illustrations perfectly fitting the many deeply funny Cartoons!

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  m.belljackson | Feb 2, 2024 |
not as many in this collection that made me laugh nonstop or that i had to share with my family, but this is still just so joyful and fun, while also touching on real and serious issues. the drawings are fantastic and it's so relatable for both kids and parenting adults. ( )
  overlycriticalelisa | Apr 24, 2021 |
Now here's the Calvin and Hobbes collection to read during the Winter months! Calvin spends so much of his time wishing for winter to come, and it's finally here - complete with monstrous snowmen, snowball fights, and plenty of sledding mishaps! While Calvin revels in the glory of a 12 inch snowfall and warming up in front of the fire, the overall tone of the volume was a bit darker than some of the other collections. Not only does Calvin himself have a few moments where he laments the fate of the bullied, wasting his childhood with homework, and the struggles of team sports, we are also treated to a few comics which are told from the perspective of his father. Unlike Calvin, his father is a realist, and this makes his outlook a lot more dour even if he does take a few moments to distance himself from his adult life to play with Calvin. In terms of the chronology of Calvin's life, this collection is comprised of his later years, so maybe this is the turning point where we see Calvin starting to grow up and out of his childhood innocence. He has to grow up eventually, doesn't he? Or maybe not, since Calvin and Hobbes are kind of in the same league as Peter Pan and seem to stay childlike forever. ( )
  JaimieRiella | Feb 25, 2021 |
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this. Calvin speculates on the realities of Santa Claus, makes terrible faces for family photos, resists bathtime, fights the babysitter, teases the girl next door mercilessly, procrastinates doing homework, imagines saving the world from distasters with superpowers, or rampaging around as a dinosaur, and argues with his more level-headed best friend tiger Hobbes. I laughed through many pages. I had forgotten the episode where the family's house got broken into. In this volume he starts his club against "slimy girls" and makes his cardboard-box duplicator. Second half of the book is the entire contents of Scientific Progress Goes "Boink". With the improvement that this volume has all the weekend strips in full color. So now I know which one is immediately getting weeded from my collection as a redundancy.

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  jeane | Feb 18, 2018 |
The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes is a good book for second graders. This book is about Calvin, a six-year old boy who hates school and his classmate Susie Derkins, and his stuffed tiger Hobbes. Calvin wants to have a good summer, so he watches tv and stays inside to play dart gun with Hobbes. When Calvin's parents say he can't watch tv, he goes over to Susie's and asks if he can watch tv there. She says, "Sure. Come in. It's a commercial," so Calvin stays there for a few hours and then goes outside and plays baseball with Hobbes. After that, they play football. In the middle of summer Calvin and his family go camping near the lake, and Calvin jumps in the water and catches a big fish. When he comes out, Calvin pretends he's Tarzan and swings from a vine. He puts his toes in the water and realizes the water is really cold, so he swings back on the vine and is very scared. Overall, Calvin has a very good summer getting revenge on Susie, building a club called Gross, getting rid of "slimy girls," and having a good time with Hobbes.

I thought this book was stupendous because Calvin is always trying to have a good time. I can relate to this book because I always try to find people to play with and I like to read comic books, just like Calvin.
  Nolanhahn | Jun 16, 2014 |
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