My Family and Other Animals was intended to embrace the natural history of the island but ended up as a delightful account of Durrell’s family’s experiences, from the many eccentric hangers-on to the ceaseless procession of puppies, toads, scorpions, geckoes, ladybugs, glowworms, octopuses, bats, and butterflies into their home.

    With Durrell for interpreter, an orange armadillo, or a horned toad, or a crab-eating raccoon, or a baby giant anteater suddenly discovers the ability not merely to set you laughing but actually to endear itself to you.ContentsExplanationSaludos1. Oven-birds and burrowing owls2. Eggbert and the Terrible TwinsInterlude3. Fields of flying flowers4. The orange armadillos5. Bevy of bichos6. Fawns, frogs, and fer-de-lance7. Terrible toads and a bushel of birds8. The four-eyed bird and the anaconda9. Sarah Huggersack10. Rattlesnakes and revolutionInterlude11. The Rhea HuntAdios!Acknowledgements

    Spend a delightful evening enthralled by the true and captivating experiences of this city lady who at age 80 spent one full year on her mountain mining claim and faced the challenges of a vastly different life.

    This fascinating and endearing collection is from the earliest days of the strip, from 1952 to 1956, and it shows the Peanuts gang as even younger tots than those we know and love now!

    

    

    An account of the authors own adventures traveling to Greece, Islands in the Aegean and to Yugoslavia. Contains many illustrations by Mircea Vasiliu.

    For the meaning and mystery of the words, as well as the introductions to each song, Walt Kelly shoulders the responsibility. Most of the music (it is arranged for piano but will also serve comb-with-tissue-paper, fife, and gong) was composed by Norman Monath. Kelly's drawings, all of them in color, are meant to explain Monath's music, whereas Monath's music has somewhat the purpose of explaining Kelly's text. It is the intent of this book to make people leave the TV sets of bars and grills to gather, singing once again, about the old family upright, and then soberly to return to the bars and grills and think things over.

    Includes: Peter Churchmouse / Gabriel Churchkitten / Trumpet / The Three Silly Kittens / Gabriel Churchkitten and the Moths.

    Wodehouse is recognized as the greatest English comic writer of the twentieth century, rightly admired throughout the world and translated into more than thirty languages. Launched on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, this series presents each Overlook Wodehouse as the finest edition of the master’s work ever published—beautifully designed and faithful to the original.Over Seventy is an “autobiography with digressions” (Wodehouse’s own words again), rich with the master’s reflections on America, his adopted home.

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    But he reckons without Susan, his wife, or his children and grandchildren and in defiance of the irresistible machinery of what has become one of our most popular national industries.The situations which confront the Baxters--and Mr. Baxter in particular--as Christmas Eve approaches are described with the wry humor which has endeared Mr. Streeter's books to so many. As in Father of the Bride and Mr. Hobbs' Vacation, he has caught the poignant, frustrating and laughable aspects of a family situation which thousands will recognize as their own.As for Mr. Baxter himself, the reader must be prepared to share all with him: his secret Christmas list, his trip to Schwarz with a grandson who has eaten too many hamburgers, his frustrations with Christmas cards, his harrowing experiences with office parties and his last-minute shopping expedition when the spirit of Christmas finally overcomes his scruples and his resistance.Merry Christmas, Mr. Baxter will delight everyone who has ever, late in the evening of December 24, placed (or criticized the placing of) the star on the top of a Christmas tree.