There's Treasure Everywhere
By: Bill Watterson
For every kid who hates mean teachers, distracted babysitters, and unidentifiable dinners
Kelly: ☻☻☻☻☻
Boy Reader: ☻☻☻☻☻
Boy Reader: ☻☻☻☻☻
This evergreen comic from the 1980's and 1990's was one of my favorites in middle school and has hooked Boy Reader all these years later. We review "There's Treasure Everywhere," but recommend any Calvin and Hobbes book you can get your hands on. Boy Reader has requested "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes" for his birthday.
Calvin is a precocious six-year-old who says all the things you wish you were uninhibited and clever enough to say, to wit:
His teacher gives him a test with the question, "What happened in Concord in 1775?"
Calvin answers, "Let's be honest. You're asking me about Concord? I rely on the bus driver to find my own house from here. Concord could be on Neptune for all I know. And what happened 220 years ago?? I'm a kid. I don't know what's going on now. I don't have a shred of context for any of this. It's hopeless, Miss Wormwood, hopeless."
The Calvin and Hobbes comic strips accommodate a wide range of reading levels. The picture clues, short bites of reading, and laugh out loud humor keep it enjoyable for reluctant middle grade readers. For more advanced readers, challenging vocabulary is sprinkled throughout: inscrutable, evocative, demoralize, subjugate, cretaceous, temporal.
Boy Reader has a message for Bill Watterson, "Please write more!"
Calvin is a precocious six-year-old who says all the things you wish you were uninhibited and clever enough to say, to wit:
His teacher gives him a test with the question, "What happened in Concord in 1775?"
Calvin answers, "Let's be honest. You're asking me about Concord? I rely on the bus driver to find my own house from here. Concord could be on Neptune for all I know. And what happened 220 years ago?? I'm a kid. I don't know what's going on now. I don't have a shred of context for any of this. It's hopeless, Miss Wormwood, hopeless."
The Calvin and Hobbes comic strips accommodate a wide range of reading levels. The picture clues, short bites of reading, and laugh out loud humor keep it enjoyable for reluctant middle grade readers. For more advanced readers, challenging vocabulary is sprinkled throughout: inscrutable, evocative, demoralize, subjugate, cretaceous, temporal.
Boy Reader has a message for Bill Watterson, "Please write more!"