Meanwhile...

Name: Meanwhile...
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
Price: 25.75 AUD
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By: Jules Feiffer

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Paperback | 4 August 1999

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Paperback
32 Pages

Age
4 - 8

Grade
1 - 2

Dimensions(cm)
21.6 x 27.6 x 0.2

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"Raymond, I want you " Just when Raymond is in the middle of a comic book, his mother calls him. Not once but five times. "It's not fair " Raymond thinks. Then he thinks: "What if I had my own MEANWHILE...?" Comic books always use MEANWHILE... to change the scene. So Raymond tries writing it on the wall behind his bed.

To his astonishment, Raymond discovers that he can MEANWHILE...from one perilous adventure to another'from pirates on the high seas, to Martians in outer space, to a posse and a mountain lion out West. Then, at the worst possible moment, Raymond's MEANWHILE... fails him, leaving him in a spot that spells certain doom Unless . . .

Industry Reviews

Ignoring his mother's increasingly irritated summonses, and noting that a boxed "meanwhile" in his comic hooks always signals a change of scene, Raymond tries writing the word on his bedroom wall - and drops into an exciting pirate adventure. Forced to walk the plank, he uses the trick again, and this time he's being chased by a posse. Things begin to spiral out of control; in the next "meanwhile," his spacecraft is blown apart by Martians, then he's back on the plank, then facing a cougar . . . where will it end? Excitedly, he shouts, "THE END!" and then hurries out of his room to do whatever his mother bids. Feiffer (A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears, 1995, etc.) uses a watercolor comic-strip style for the illustrations, which are more simply drawn than his cartoons for adults; with few large panels per page, Raymond has ample space to express pop-eyed dismay in the face of flying bullets, toothy sharks, and other menaces. Children will chortle. (Kirkus Reviews)

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