Books by Jeff Smith
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review 1: I always like getting this "best of" volume for Christmas. This was a good selection. Favorites: Jesse Jacobs' THE DIVINE MANIFESTATION OF A SINGULAR IMPULSE; Sam Alden's TURN BACK; Michael DeForge's MANANANGGAL; Craig Thompson's 70 NIGHTS OF PLEASURE; Malachi Ward's TOP FIVE; De...
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review 1: The Bone Handbook is a collection of extras about the Bone saga. It includes a history of the Valley where all the action takes place (basically a summary of the whole story), character biographies, recipes, interviews with the writers and the colorist, and a couple of bonus stor...
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review 1: Bone carried me through its volumes with lush art, a great sense of pace, and characters who were hard not to like. RASL manages two out of the three, but the protagonist didn't really provoke any sort of response in me. As he's a dimension-hopping art thief, I expected he'd have...
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review 1: The series is starting to build and it seems like it will get more engrossing. Now Smith is getting more into the motives of why RASL, previously Dr. Robert Johnson, left his research. It reveals the background of the research based on United States Military experiments and an ob...
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review 1: This is another solid collection by Jeff Smith. It gets into some slightly more surreal, supernatural, or metaphysical realms. Not as much action in these chapters, but it provides more back story for Dr. Robert Johnson.Interestingly enough, while reading this book, I got to see ...
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review 1: Little Mouse Gets Ready is a graphic novel written by Jeff Smith. This book is also part of the Bakers Dozen collection. This was a really simple children's book, and I really enjoyed it. This is a great way to use critical element in the classroom, as well as making inferences. ...
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review 1: The title of this volume, and my fascination with Tesla, was enough for me to pick this up. And then of course I realized it was friggin' volume #4 and I had to get the others and start there.An interesting series. Those who already know about Tesla will find this an interestin...
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review 1: I loved the entire "Bone" series, including "Rose," and the short stories featuring that world and those characters. I read some good reviews of this new series, so I gave it a try. I liked it, but there's not enough that happens in the first volume to make me LOVE it, yet. Only ...
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review 1: Little Mouse Gets Ready is written by Jeff Smith. The story is about a little mouse who is going to visit the barn with his Mama mouse. She keeps asking the little mouse if he is ready and he keeps replying with “almost.” The little mouse is trying to put clothes on so he can ...
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review 1: An adorable story told in a beginner's graphic novel format. Momma mouse tells her son to get ready for a trip to the barn. Of course, mouse thinks this means get dressed so he can go out. The little mouse goes through all of the steps of getting dressed while thinking aloud abou...
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review 1: this is quite good in many ways. It's amazing what author smith can do with very few words and stripped down drawings: transitions, flashbacks, multiple stories, inner dialog, out loud dialog, everything one would find in a prose novel. A fascinating take on Tesla, the good ol us...