Playdate: Category 5

Baby Blues Scrapbooks #19

by Rick Kirkman, Jerry Scott

All the family fun, pandemonium, and childhood chaos that fans of Baby Blues enjoy in the strip's daily newspaper appearances swirl about this collection, Category 5 . Imagine three hurricanes converging on one household and you get an idea of what Darryl and Wanda MacPherson experience each delightful day of parenting Zoe, Hammie, and Baby Wren. It's a perfect storm of flying foodstuffs, off-the-scale emotional outbursts, and enough offspring energy to make veteran storm chasers duck for cover . . . and that's before any little friends come over to play! Category 5 captures all this and more. This Baby Blues collection is packed with hilarious family situations and childhood challenges anyone can appreciate, whether it's fellow parents riding out their own ""storms,"" empty-nesters reveling in their calms, or parents-to-be wondering what all the fuss is about. Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott are right on target in episode after episode. Their witty observations and insights-such as ""I think screaming is the primary form of communication for girls,"" ""We've gotta learn to travel lighter, or just put some wheels on the house,"" and ""Sometimes being the dad is like being the weird kid in the neighborhood""-always hit the mark. Category 5 will be treasured by Baby Blues fans everywhere. Playdate allows readers to experience the full fury of the MacPherson family tempest time and time again.

Genres: Comics, Humor, Bande Dessinée, Comic Book, Graphic Novels Comics, Graphic Novels, Comic Strips

130 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2004

About the author

Rick Kirkman is a cartoonist and co-creator of the comic strip Baby Blues. He received the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Comic Strip Award in 1995, and the Reuben Award in 2012 for his work on the strip. He also served as co-executive producer of The WB animated television series of Baby Blues.

Reviews

[David Allen Hines · Rating 4 out of 5]

I spent much of this year buying and reading the now many volumes in the Baby Blues strip, and so glad I did! I have been reading this comic for many years, identified with it while my own 3 children were young, and it always has brought great joy and laughter! This volume dates from 2004, some 20 years ago, but the strips are not dated at all. So much of early parenthood experiences are indeed timeless! Wren has now been born and is a young baby. There's some cute and funny strips when Zoe and Hammie watch her trying to sit up or play with her like a toy. There was one funny strip I remember reading from years ago when Wanda opens a box full of packing styrofoam peanuts and Zoe thinks its "ghost poop!" Any parent can remember the vivid and sometimes astound conjectures of young children! There's also the funny strip when Daryl thinks he has lost some of his daddy paunch, not to realize he is actually wearing Wanda's maternity jeans! Anyone who enjoys young children will love this book and any fan of Baby Blues will truly enjoy this read!

[Shannon Rohrer · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this a lot when I first had my daughter, because while I didn't have 3 kids, I could easily connect with Darryl and Wanda's challenges, especially regarding their infant, Wren. It also gave me something of a blue print of what to expect as my daughter got older, and the fact that it's through a humorous lens made it easier to cope during those days, weeks and months of uncertainty.

So I guess you could say Baby Blues is something of a comfort comic strip, and one I really enjoyed returning to (this book in particular).

[Meghan Edwards · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great comic series. Makes me laugh every time.

[Tyler Marsolais · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hilarious! It's great as the kids get older

[Jan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've enjoyed Kirkman's family of 5 since my youngsters were young and they never fail to bring a laugh or two and always a smile. If nothing else, you need a sense of humor when you're busy raising children and this book will help. It's even funnier when you see various children, sometimes your own, disguised as Zoe, Hammie or Baby Wren.

[Bia]

Adoro este libro tem muitos disparates!!!