Skip School, Fly to Space

This collection is a fine sampling of the silly, insightful, pun-tastic world of Stephan Pastis's Pearls Before Swine. Many readers will be able to relate to the experiences and opinions of Pearls' anthropomorphic cast. If you like the absurd, dark humor and non sequiturs, then you will find much to enjoy in this compilation. Highly recommended.

Always fun to read Pearls Before Swine. Witty humor every time.

Timmy Failure is a big hit in my library, so I think it will be easy to get them to read this. I think the kids will be thrilled with this book. My only qualm about this book are the animals that don't speak grammatical, well-spelled English. I think that the kids are smart enough to figure it out, but I worry about it confusing them.

'Skip School, Fly to Space: A Pearls Before Swine Collection' by Stephan Pastis is a collection of the hilarious comic strips. Totally fun for kids and anyone else who likes memorable characters.

Rat and Pig are friends. Rat is a troublemaker and his usual foil is gullible, earnest Pig. Poor Zebra just wants to be a good neighbor, but his neighbors are the mostly stupid crocodiles who are always trying (and failing) to have Zebra over for dinner. We see the crocodiles form a superhero team called the Fantastic Four, but there are only three of them (they aren't that fantastic at math, apparently). We see Goat try unsuccessfully to intervene on Rat's mean behavior to Pig. We meet Kiko the Cactus who just wants a hug.

I felt for poor Pig who is not so bright, but is sincere and put upon by his friend. I absolutely loved the crocodiles and I would laugh out loud just about every time they showed up. This is a great collection of cartoons for kids of any ages, and I had a great time reading it.

I received this graphic novel from Andrews McMeel Publishing and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this hilarious graphic novel.

Cute book.