title: Strange Stories for Strange Kids (Little Lit, Book 2)
author: Art Spiegelman
description: Editors Art Spiegelman and Franoise Mouly have packed so much top-notch talent into this flabbergastingly funny all-ages comic collection that you'll have a terrible time deciding what to read first. Just as with the previous Little Lit book, <i><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060286245/${0}">Folklore &amp; Fairy Tale Funnies</a></i>, you'll find some of the most hilarious, intelligent, and diverse short comics around inside these pages: Maurice Sendak's omnivorous infant gobbles up everything in sight in "Cereal Baby Keller"; David Sedaris pairs up with Ian Falconer to define true cuteness; "Where's Waldo?" creator Martin Handford searches for old socks; Paul Auster (yes, <i><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140131558/${0}">that</a></i> Paul Auster) and Jacques de Loustal's offering follows a man who's found he's disappeared; Crockett Johnson (<i><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0064430227/${0}">Harold and the Purple Crayon</a></i>) brings back the beginning of his classic '40s strip, "Barnaby" (a favorite of Duke Ellington and Dorothy Parker, among others); and Spiegelman himself takes on "The Several Selves of Selby Sheldrake." And that's not even the half of it. This downright quirky collection will charm comic fans of all ages--and, no doubt, make fans out of those who weren't already. Even the endpapers are funny, thanks to Kaz of "Underworld." (All ages after 9 or so) <i>--Paul Hughes</i>
zlib_text: Also by Louis Sachar
  
   _The Cardturner_ _Holes_ _Small Steps_ _Stanley Yelnats’ Survival Guide to
  Camp Green Lake_ For Younger Readers
  
  Marvin Redpost series _Dogs Don’t Tell Jokes_ _The Boy Who Lost His Face_
  _There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom_
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are
  the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely
  coincidental.
  
  Text copyright © 2015 by Louis Sachar Cover art copyright © 2015 by Jeff
  Nentrup Map copyright © 2015 by Jeffery Mathison All rights reserved.
  Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House
  Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
  
  Delacorte Press is a registered trademark and the colophon is a trademark of
  Penguin Random House LLC.
  
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