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Friday Funny – Text-Spelling

I’d like to credit the cartoonist but I can’t find the original. Here is where I found it where the blog author points out that the student just needs the right reading strategy.

Wordlessly Eloquent

Alireza-Safaei-Iran

Natalia-Forcat-Brazil

Paolo-Dalponte-Italy

Saeid-Farhangian-Iran

Saman-Ahmadi-Iran

Some of the Finalists of the International Book Cartoon Contest in Iran – cartoon all about books and reading. See all 39 at IranCartoon Web

Unmistakably Seuss – Definitely Geisel

As a political cartoonist during World War II, Theodor Seuss Geisel, now better known as Dr. Seuss, made his views very clear with his distinctive style. Enjoy the few I’ve embedded here and then head over to Huff Post Books to see many more and read all about the work gathered at the Mandeville Special Collections Library.

Friday Funny: The Art & Power of Sushing

Unshelved

The Wisdom of Calvin and Hobbes

I can think of few books in my library that have had been as perennially popular as Bill Watterson‘s Calvin and Hobbes series. The principled and reclusive Watterson, who, since 1995 has gone on to other things, has the enviable gift of being able to combine sheer visual delight and entertainment with pithy observances like, “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us”. Edd McCracken has gathered Sixteen Things Calvin and Hobbes Said Better Than Anyone Else for our enjoyment.

Also recommended:
My hero: Bill Watterson
Calvin and Hobbes Facts

You also might want to check out Digital Calvin and Hobbes and let me know what you think of this site in the comments.

Friday Funny: Teaching Library Skills (the futility of?)

A selection of Library Quiz Answers from Middle School (click here for more)

Information on dragons can be found by asking one of them in the office.

The purpose of OPACs is to say how much to sell crude oil for.

Reference books cannot be checked out because they are too big and heavy.

Fiction books are just a lot of stories, so they don’t get a rating number.

The Dewey System measures how cold it got overnight by measuring how much wetness is on the grass in the mornings.

When girls get their periodicals, they don’t go to swim school.

You can find words with similar meanings in Rogers Brontasaurus.

from the Warrior Libarian’s old site, new one is here.

Friday Funny: Overdue Books

Lolcats

Thank you Mr. Stratton, whoever you are. Your cartoon is all over the net, but I can’t find  anything about you, unless this is your book (in that case RIP).

Charles Schulz (1997 Interview)