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Le Petit Monde De Liz (2013)

by Liz Climo(Favorite Author)

4.55 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

2756041386 (ISBN13: 9782756041384)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Delcourt

review 1: Cute is the dominant word in most of the reviews of this book and it is the first word that came to my mind when I was reading it. But that might be too dismissive of it. Maybe it is that I have been reading a lot of bleak work lately (John Porcellino's The Hospital Suite, about his struggles with mental and physical health, R. Crumb, Harvey Pekar, …) but this book was a breath of fresh air and just delightful. I am not dismissing the importance of bleakness in literature; it serves an important purpose. If Pollyanna or Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm were all we had to read, we would be naive, saccharine, escapist. This is the month of Michael Brown, Mr. Garner in NYC, of Bill Cosby, of mean-spirited reactions to Obama's acts on behalf of the families of immigrants, after al... morel. But naive and saccharine: that's not how I feel about Liz Climo's little world. This is an all ages book, a book of animal comics and cartoons, drawn very cleanly, though not fussily, with insights into we humans, in a sense ala Gary Larson and his animal/science cartoons that help us understand both animals and humans. Climo makes you believe in goodness, sweetness. I am thinking of all the snark that accompanied the recent, live production of Peter Pan, which was often so vicious, and so much of the nastiness that accompanies almost anything "nice" that we encounter on the web, and imagining that some of that might come to Climo, too. Maybe she's already heard the haters, since these were web comix first, many of them. I hope not, though. This stuff is good, and serves an important purpose. These comics are sweet and made me smile, so there! If you need a lift like I did, read it!
review 2: Very funny and SUPER cute. Like Far Side, but much cuddlier. She has sloths and capybaras for crying out loud. And a Corgi.Also, zen in the same way that the Benjamin Bear books are, though not for small kids. One gem:Sloth (dress in devil ears and tail) and Anteater (with a cape) are sitting down and going through their Halloween candy. Anteater says, "Oh, boy! Ants!"Slot says, "Those are raisins."Anteater, "Oh. Gross." less

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