Tomi Ungerer
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"This 1970s classic is Ungerer at his sweetly subversive best."―New York Times Book Review
Monsieur Racine wakes up one day to find his precious pear tree looted of all the award-winning fruit. When he discovers that the culprit is funny-looking beast, his anger gives way to curiosity and two become friends. But the beast is not quite what it seems, eventually it comes apart-literally to show itself to be no beast at all, but the two playful children...
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The for-adults collection of humorous comics by the award-winning children's book author—whom Maurice Sendak called a "marvelous cartoonist"—in a newly designed edition.
Director Jonathan Miller, from his introduction to the 1964 edition: "Ungerer illustrates a world where things are coming apart, where the old unquestioned entities are at best provisional arrangements, loosely thrown together and never to be relied upon." The humorous comics...
3) Babylon
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The third book in Fantagraphics ongoing project to reprint Tomi Ungerer’s 1970s-1980s satirical work, Babylon may be the most sobering collection so far, an example of his humor at its blackest. Drawn entirely in pencil, these fully rendered images, reproduced in lush, dense, gray tones, rival the satirical vitriol of his anti-war posters of the previous decade, radiating repulsion at what human beings can do to one another in the guise of “civilization.”...
4) Moon Man
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English
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The classic story by one of the world's best-loved and acclaimed storytellers for children.
The man in the moon looks down on the happy, dancing people on Earth every night, wishing he could join them. He hitches a ride on a passing comet, but quickly finds himself thrown into jail by people who see him as an invader, rather than a friendly visitor. The Moon Man, however, has a most unusual – but perfectly logical – means of escape, and sets...
6) The Hat
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English
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A charming story by Tomi Ungerer.
The black top hat with magic powers blew into the one-legged soldier's life, made him a wealthy man, and then blew out again.
7) Crictor
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English
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From the creative mind of acclaimed author Tomi Ungerer.
Even though she's little-just like her best friends, Worm and Spider-Fly wants to be a superhero. And why not? She walks on walls, sees in all directions at once, and can already fly!Doreen Cronin and Harry Bliss, the team behind the #1 New York Times bestsellers Diary of a Worm and Diary of a Spider, reach hilarious heights with their story of a little fly who's not afraid to dream big. Really...
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Tomi Ungerer - ein Mann, so facettenreich wie sein Werk. Mit 25 Jahren wanderte er in die USA aus, 60 Dollar in der Tasche. Seither veröffentlichte er über 60 Bücher, seinen Zeichnungen wurde ein eigenes Museum gebaut. Er gestaltete Filmplakate für Stanley Kubrick und Otto Preminger und traumatisierte seine Kinder, indem er an Ostern mit der Flinte bewaffnet loszog, um den Osterhasen zu erschießen. Mit Elke Heidenreich spricht er über Gott und...
13) Flat Stanley
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Flat Stanley volume 1
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English
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A picture book version of the story in which a bulletin board falls on Stanley while he is sleeping, and he finds that being flat has its advantages.
14) Moon man
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Cinedigm Entertainment
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[2014]
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English
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The man on the moon is bored and hitches a ride to Earth, on the tails end of a passing comet. However, the Moon Man must get back fast because the absence of the Moon Man means that all the world's children are unable to sleep.
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[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
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[released 2009], ©2009
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English
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The familiar story of The Three Little Pigs is retold from the wolf's point of view. The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs.
In "Doobie doobie moo", when Duck finds out about a talent show at the county fair, he and the other animals start rehearsing. Duck is determined they will enter the contest and win.
"Bark, George" is the amusing story of a mother dog trying to teach her...