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In this humorous African folktale, young Koi leaves home when the people of his village refuse to pay him the homage befitting a chief's son. Upon his arrival at a neighboring village, young Koi finds himself facing a cooking pot unless he, with the help of some unlikely new friends, can fulfill three difficult tasks. Illustrator Reynold Ruffins has created vivid pictures that draw knowingly on native motifs. Music by Herbie Hancock. ... Read more

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Great African Story!!!
"Koi and the Kola Nuts" is a story about a chief's son named Koi who goes out and searches for a village that respects him after his father's death. Along the way, Koi encounters a snake, some ants and an alligator, who he saves their lives by giving them some of his kola nuts. As Koi arrives at the village, the villages don't believe he is a son of the chief, therefore, they give him some impossible tasks that he may not fullfill. Can Koi pass all of these tests and prove to the village he is the son of the chief?

This story teaches a valuable moral about friendship and determination. When Koi is in grave danger of being eaten by the villagers, the animals that helped along his journey, came and helped him with the impossible tasks. I love this story because the images are extremely breathtaking and I love the way Whoopi Goldberg puts this story together. I especially love the scene where the villagers are saying to Koi,

"He's no son of a chief,
He's merely a thief,
He's nothing more than an azu with a curse,
Let's a great big feast,
Or a little one at least."

I just loved that song!!! This video is enjoyable for everyone who loves an African story done by Whoopi Goldberg!!!

Koi and the Kola nuts, a great book!
"Koi and the Kola nuts" is the perfect book for young readers. It is culturally great. It is from Liberia. It gives a great moral, and that is that if you give to people, it will come back to you several times over. Great book, and I fully recommend it! ... Read more

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Stephen King's unparalleled imagination is in full force in this collection of four unabridged short stories originally found in the classic, Nightmares & Dreamscapes. An all-star cast of readers bring to life these timeless stories from the darkest places, including the tale Dolan's Cadillac: soon to be a feature film starring Christian Slater, Wes Bentley, and Emmanuelle Vaugier.

A widowed husband spends seven years plotting revenge for his wife's murder in Dolan's Cadillac. A school teacher discovers her students are not what they seem in Suffer the Little Children. In Crouch End, a woman fears that supernatural events may have led to her husband's disappearance. And in Rainy Season, a young couple is forced into the ultimate battle of Man vs. Nature when torrential rain turns deadly.

Rob Lowe, Whoopi Goldberg, Tim Curry, and Yeardley Smith lend their voices to this haunting collection of classic stories that no Stephen King fan should be without. ... Read more

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eerie tales from a KING
Even if you don't likeStephen King,you have to admit that he's a darn good storyteller
If you're wondering what MIGHT scare him you have but to read, or in my case listen to DOLAN'S CADILLAC.
The imagination of this man is boundless and as creepy as slugs and centipedesslithering up your legs in the dark.
DOLAN'S CADILLAC is written, in MY opinion, in his old psychological eerie RichardBachman style.
The Audio book includes Rob, Lowe, Whoopee Goldberg, Tim Curry and Yeardley Smith. KING himself includes a brief insight into his style and why he (like me) still thinks short stories are still his favorite form of writing.

I will not give away the plot, but if you know anything about SK you know that he uses every possible angle to lure you in then PUSH something awful, something frightening right in your face.

Dolan's Cadillac is four short stories ending with the Title tale which is the longest.
Whoopie Goldberg does a great job onSUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN, a small peek into the minds oflittlin's when their spirit might not be so little?
The always splendid Tim Curry with his deep English accented voice takes you on a journey the CROUCH END a town that has an undercurrent of something sinister.
Will you get out? can you get out?

Stephen King has a really dark humorous sidehe will use something as everyday as a simple innocentsamphibious creature to wreak havoc on a town every seven years and only whenNEWBIES come to live but are warned with the truth, and still they do not believe.
The 'oldsters' are typicalNew Englanders with theirEAH'S andCAAR, speech, butclearly accepting of a phenomenon that they have come to know as THE RAINY SEASON.

Since I am the queen of wanting to seethe bad guy get theirs, I am always interested in seeing how SK will do what he does when the antagonist is so self serving and non caring that he has no regard for human life.What does a simple man do for revenge?Well what would you doif the criminal rode in a specially made bullet proof almost invincible automobile? You have to read DOLAN'S CADILLAC and find out.

AWESOME
This is probably one of the best Steven King has written and it's a short story, Dolan's Cadillac.It was GREAT, I LOVED IT!Can't always say that as I do TRULY enjoy his books but THIS ONE was the best ever in my view.An Older one but Awesome.He is an amazing writer.This one is NOT creepy as some are, I say get it and make your own decision....

Vintage but good
Tidbits of King in short story format, plus a great intro by the author which for this reader gives added insight into this crazy creative gneius.Great for the road (audio format).

Classic Stephen King
If your a Stephen King fan then this book will not disappoint.A wonderful read, revenge is truely a dish best when served cold.

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The New York Times best-selling series continues!

The Complete Peanuts will run 25 volumes, collecting two years chronologically at a rate of two a year for twelve years. Each volume is designed by the award-winning cartoonist Seth (It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken) and features impeccable production values; every single strip from Charles M. Schulz's 50-year American classic is reproduced better than ever before.Amazon.com Review
The fifth volume in Fantagraphics Books' Complete Peanuts series welcomes a new character: Sally, Charlie Brown's baby sister.It's interesting to see how the perpetually beleaguered CB--criticized for having a "face" face or a "failure face--now takes on the responsibility of worrying about the world his sister will grow up in.His role as manager of the baseball team continues to bring him woe, losing 600-0, losing all 20 games of the season, making a daring attempt to steal home, and having to miss a game to push his sister's stroller.Linus, at first wondering if Sally will someday go out with him, gets his answer in spades: "Isn't he the cutest thing?"But he'd much rather lavish his attention on the new teacher, Miss Othmar ("I'm very fond of the ground on which she walks"), even if his eggshell project doesn't work out as planned.Snoopy, though threatened by a hanging icicle and a possible freeway through his home, still finds joy in being a gopher, the Big Man on Campus, or the Mad Punter."Peanuts" was well into its classic years in the 1959-60 period, with such signature moments as "Happiness is a warm puppy" and a lot of material that would become familiar staples of the Christmas and Halloween television specials. --David Horiuchi ... Read more

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Great
It's Peanuts, and it's great.A nice conclusion to an already-established decade of enjoyable comics.
The introductory interview with Whoopi Goldberg is in itself a tasteful read.

On to the next!

the complete peanuts
I AM NOT READING THEM, BUT I AM COLLECTING THEM SLOWLY, AS I THINK THEY ARE WORTH HAVING, AND I CAN PASS THEM ON TO MY GRANDCHILDREN EVENTUALLY.I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED PEANUTS, AND THIS SEEMED A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY TO GO OVER THEM ALL AGAIN.

I love it!
This is when Charlie Brown and Snoopy really got good. Great things happen in this book. Many firsts like Sally and the Great Pumpkin and many more cool stuff in this great book. Sally also falls in love with Linus and Linus falls in love with his teacher. I gave it four stars though because it is still early Peanuts and the later years were the best. I would give it five stars now but the computer won't let me. These are also the last years Patty and Violet as main characters. Although Violet will be main for the last time in 1961.

The Secret to Happiness
What is happiness?On April 25, 1960, Charles Schulz, through his character Lucy told us:Happiness is a warm puppy.This immortal sentence is just one of the things that appears in the fifth volume of The Complete Peanuts, which comprises the years 1959 and 1960.As in previous volumes, we see once again why Peanuts is considered by many to be the best comic strip ever.

In some sense, things have not changed from past volumes:Linus still has his blanket, Charlie Brown still can't fly a kite and Lucy is a champion fussbudget.On the other hand, things do move forward, albeit slowly.As original character Shermy (the first to ever speak in a Peanuts strip) becomes less significant, we get a new character with Charlie Brown's sister, Sally.Before she can even talk, she will have her heart broken by Linus, but don't worry, she'll recover fast.

Resiliency is the key to many of these characters, none more so than the strip's centerpiece, Charlie Brown.Constantly luckless and often ridiculed by his "friends" (only Linus, and occasionally Schroeder, are relatively consistent in being nice to him), Charlie Brown, despite his glumness is actually the eternal optimist.He never gives up on flying his kit or playing baseball or even his belief that one day, Lucy will actually allow him to kick that football.

Behind the deceptively simple drawing and the child characters (by this point in the strip, even the adult voices are gone), lies an often deep and sophisticated art, filled with wit and humanity.And like any piece of art that is great and immortal, it is timeless and as good now as ever, whether you're an adult or a child.

Sally and Linus: The Full Story, now coming out!
This issue gives us the first shots of Sally, plus some other developments. The baseball themes are being fleshed out (complete with mass-quitting of CB's team) and the Psychologist's Stand makes its debut.

What's most interesting is watching the beginning of Sally's crush on Linus. While the reprinted strips of before show Sally falling in love and Linus responding with revulsion, the new strips reveal some interesting tacks.

First, early on in the book (in a strip that hadn't seen the light of day in the reprints I had read over the years), Linus actually expresses an interest in Sally, wondering if she would be dateable at 17 (when he would be 22). One gets the idea that Schultz actually wanted to develop a situation where Linus was in love but his object was unrequited.

Later on in the book, Schultz hits gold: Sally falls, Linus is embarassed. While some of these strips are familiar, the section where Sally's heart breaks is new to my eyes. Towards the end of this book is a comic strip that is worth every penny: Sally sees Linus walk by and responds in a way that everyone has responded to a broken heart. Only Schultz could have reduced it to half a day's strip! ... Read more

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This issue features a photo-profile of Drew Barrymore at the age of 9, a profile of Whoopi Goldberg, a feature on Gary Hart, and much more! ... Read more

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Collecting the fifth and sixth volumes of The Complete Peanuts (1959-1960 and 1961-1962) in one handsome collector's slipcase designed by the cartoonist Seth, this is the perfect gift book item.In The Complete Peanuts 1959-1960: As the first decade of Peanuts closes, it seems only fittingto bid farewell to that halcyon decade with a cover starring Patty, oneof the original three Peanuts. Major new additions to classic Peanutslore come fast and furious here. Snoopy begins to take up residenceatop his doghouse, and his repertoire of impressions increasesexponentially. Lucy sets up her booth and offers her first five-centpsychiatric counsel. (Her advice to a forlorn Charlie Brown: "Get overit.") For the very first time, Linus spends all night in the pumpkinpatch on his lonely vigil for the Great Pumpkin (although he lamentsthat he was a victim of "false doctrine," he's back 12 months later).Linus also gets into repeated, and visually explosive, scuffles with ablanket-stealing Snoopy, suffers the first depredations of hisblanket-hating grandmother, and falls in love with his new teacher MissOthmar. Even more importantly, several years after the last addition tothe cast ("Pig-Pen"), Charlie Brown's sister Sally makes her appearance— first as an (off-panel) brand new baby for Charlie to gush over, thenas a toddler and eventually a real, talking, thinking cast member. (Bythe end of this volume, she'll already start developing her crush onLinus.) All this, and one of the most famous Peanuts stripsever: "Happiness is a warm puppy." Almost one hundred of the 731 stripscollected in this volume (including many Sundays) have never beencollected in any book since their original release, with one hundredmore having been collected only once in relatively obscure and nowimpossible-to-find books; in other words, close to one quarter of thestrips have never been seen by anyone but the most avid Peanuts completists. The introduction is by comedienne extraordinaire Whoopi Goldberg, who reveals which Peanutscharacter she has tattooed on her body (and where) — as well as tellingof her meeting with "Sparky" Schulz, and her fascinating theory onSnoopy's brother Spike. As always, this volume is gorgeously designedby award-winning cartoonist Seth. The Complete Peanutscontinues to receive national and international media attention for itssophisticated treatment of one of the 20th Century's defining Americanclassics.

In The Complete Peanuts 1961-1962: Launching into the 1960s, Schulz adds another new cast member. Two, infact: The obnoxious Frieda, of "naturally curly hair" fame, and herinert, seemingly boneless cat Faron. The rapidly maturing Sally, whowas after all just born in the previous volume, is ready to startkindergarten and not at all happy about it. Linus' life is particularlyturbulent in this volume, as he is forced to wear glasses, sees theunexpected return of his favorite teacher, Miss Othmar, and coaxesSally into the cult of the Great Pumpkin (with regrettable results).Snoopy, meanwhile, becomes a compulsive water sprinkler head stander,unhappily befriends a snowman or two, and endures a family crisisinvolving a little family of birds. Plus baseball blowouts (including arare team victory), Beethoven birthdays, and plenty of dubiouspsychiatric help for a nickel. This book collects 730 daily and Sundaycomic strips, the vast majority of which are not currently available inany in-print Peanuts collection, and many of which have neverbeen reprinted since their initial appearance in papers over 50 yearsago. With a new introduction by legendary jazz pianist/vocalist DianaKrall and gorgeous design by award-winning cartoonist Seth. 1461 black-and-white comic stripsAmazon.com Review
The fifth volume in Fantagraphics Books' Complete Peanuts series welcomes a new character: Sally, Charlie Brown's baby sister.It's interesting to see how the perpetually beleaguered CB--criticized for having a "face" face or a "failure face--now takes on the responsibility of worrying about the world his sister will grow up in.His role as manager of the baseball team continues to bring him woe, losing 600-0, losing all 20 games of the season, making a daring attempt to steal home, and having to miss a game to push his sister's stroller.Linus, at first wondering if Sally will someday go out with him, gets his answer in spades: "Isn't he the cutest thing?"But he'd much rather lavish his attention on the new teacher, Miss Othmar ("I'm very fond of the ground on which she walks"), even if his eggshell project doesn't work out as planned.Snoopy, though threatened by a hanging icicle and a possible freeway through his home, still finds joy in being a gopher, the Big Man on Campus, or the Mad Punter."Peanuts" was well into its classic years in the 1959-60 period, with such signature moments as "Happiness is a warm puppy" and a lot of material that would become familiar staples of the Christmas and Halloween television specials. --David Horiuchi

By 1961-62, "Peanuts" was truly the comic strip that we all still know and love, with situations and sayings that would cement its place as one of the most memorable literary creations of all time.Linus is firmly center stage, and if not for baseball would probably eclipse Charlie Brown in status.His efforts to defend his blanket are legendary (Lucy buries it and turns it into a kite), he gets glasses, and his favorite teacher, Miss Othmar (now known as Mrs. Hagemeyer) returns, which leads to some consternation when he (1) learns that she's accepting money to teach and (2) tells her he'll give up his blanket if she gives up biting her fingernails.There's a new character, Frieda with the naturally curly hair, and her floppy cat strikes terror throughout the neighborhood.Oh, about that baseball team.Everyone quits when Schroeder gives up baseball for Beethoven (leading CB to take out a personal ad to manage another team), they decide their pep talk is making them hypocrites, and Linus is assigned to scout the opposing team.As much as "Peanuts" is a reflection of its era ("Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher?"), it also had a self-awareness as a comic strip (Linus: "The most recent criticism is that there is too little action and far too much talking in the modern-day comic strip. What do you think about this?" CB: "Ridiculous!") that proved just how far Charles M. Schulz was ahead of his time.With fellow pianist Schroeder on the cover, Diana Krall wrote this volume's introduction. --David Horiuchi ... Read more

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Beautiful two-hardcover set collects 1959-1962 Peanuts comic strips
This "boxed set" contains Volumes 5 and 6 of the Fantagraphics Peanuts reprint series (1959-60 and 1961-62) in one handsome slipcase. Daily strips run three to a page with complete black-and-white Sunday strips on one full page. Seth and Fantagraphics have produced an attractive design with paper and binding of a high quality.Introductions have been provided by Whoopi Goldberg and Diana Krall, and the covers feature Patty and Schroeder, respectively.
These strips contain years nine to twelve Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Schroeder, Pigpen, Violet, Patty and the rest of the gang (and introduce Frieda) and most are still enjoyable 50 years later.In the 1/1/59 Sunday strip that opens Volume 5, the passing boys deride Lucy who is diligently at work forming snowballs: "girls sure do some stupid things! She makes a snowball so big she can't even throw it!"Like a bowler, Lucy then knocks three boys down with one snowball, and uses a second on an incredulous Charlie Brown: "I never thought she'd pick up the spare!"
Schultz received the National Cartoonist Society Humor Comic Strip Award in 1962.In 1961, the Ford Motor Company licensed the Peanuts characters for a series of black-and-white television commercial s for the Ford Falcon.This Bill Melendez-animated project was the forerunner of the classic TV specials that were soon to follow.
These volumes are exactly the same as the individual ones: the boxed set offers the additional slipcase and, based on Amazon's current prices, a $3 discount per book.Fantagraphics plans to release a subsequent two-book set each fall.

Schulz at the Beginning of His 'Golden Age'
For nearly 50 years, Charles Schulz provided a thoughtful, amusing, and endearing look at human foibles through the unlikely venue of the comic pages.And, as author David Michaelis (who wrote the Schulz biography "Schulz and Peanuts") has suggested, he also provided -- perhaps unintentionally (at least at first) a look into his own life and experience, with each of the characters providing different perspectives on some aspect of his own personality or -- as in the case of Lucy -- those whom he knew as well.

Of course, there is no better way to experience and understand Schulz' contributions than through the comics themselves, and this set, covering the beginning of his second decade at the drawing easel, was the start of his best and most memorable period (although to be fair, even the earlier two volumes, covering 1955-1958, could be included, too).By now the major characters -- Linus, Lucy, Snoopy, and of course Charlie Brown -- had taken the physical and temperamental form that they would carry for the rest of the strip.Most of the other characters (Schroeder, Shermy, Patty, and Violet) were also in place, and Charlie Brown's little sister, Sally, was "born" in the strip in 1959, one of the years covered here (although she didn't appear physically at first, and then only in a stroller).Happily, this set also predates some of the less interesting or desirable characters, such as Peppermint Patty and Marcie, who unfortunately came to dominate the strip beginning in the 1970s.

Here, you'll find Schulz at the height of his powers, writing insightful yet always entertaining sketches (literally and figuratively) on the human condition.These strips were also the source for many of the story lines used in later animated productions -- anyone who has seen "A Charlie Brown Christmas," for example (and who among us hasn't?) will find among the Christmas and other wintertime stories in this set the genesis for that story.If you love "Peanuts" -- or know someone who does -- this set provides the totality of the artist himself at the beginning of his personal "Golden Age."

High quality, gift for my son
These heirloom quality, hardbound books are well received by my middle school aged son.Peanuts has a timeless feel, and the complete run in these books are a great tribute to this comic.I am buying all of the books in sequence for my son, and I think they will be enjoyed forever.

Fantastic, fantastic
These are beautiful reproductions, bringing the joys of my youth back with full vigor and force. To be able to share them with my 6-year old daughter, listening to her playing out the parts as we read them together is all the more rewarding. Spectacular acheivement. I hope someday to amass the entire collection. The prices on Amazon are without parallel.

Wonderful memories.
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