When the neighborhood inventor creates a shrinking machine and accidentally shrinks his own children and their friends, the kids find everyday activities an adventure and a peril. GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer(“BAHtKoZAQ1EC”, 500,400);

Steptoe and son : two junk men and a junk-cart, bonded by blood, yoked by emotional blackmail and tied by the reins of Hercules the horse. Albert, a conniving old father and Harold, a shackled son full of indistinct ambition for an out-of-reach life, and forever on the fringe of a flirt with a passing…

This zany strip enters the comic-collection scene with circus-like zeal. All that’s missing is a parade of elephants and a clown-car escort. Gary and Glenn McCoy’s delightfully absurd comic panel blends superheroes, office humor, huggable animals, and twisted relationships in a bizarre marriage of Gary Larson, the New Yorker, Conan O’Brien, and Mad Magazine. Put…

The Possum King is set in the fictional town of Clayton, South Carolina, in 1974. The story revolves around the Bishop family as they await the return of family patriarch Frank Bishop, a career soldier who has been away at war in Vietnam. The story is told from the point of view of fourteen-year-old Marcus…

THE STORY: Maria Callas is teaching a master class in front of an audience (us). She’s glamorous, commanding, larger than life–and drop-dead funny. An accompanist sits at the piano. Callas’ first victim is Sophie, a ridiculous, overly-perky sopra GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer(“iXGG5zmWKPcC”, 500,400);

A modern classic that no child should miss. Since it was first published in 1939, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel has delighted generations of children. Mike and his trusty steam shovel, Mary Anne, dig deep canals for boats to travel through, cut mountain passes for trains, and hollow out cellars for city skyscrapers —…