Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #970594 in Books
• Published on: 1997-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Review
There's a new kid on the block and her name is Ruthie. A six year old with the impeccable logic, outspoken frankness, and fractured word pronunciation only a bright, imaginative, precocious youngster can have, Ruthie deals with the family foibles of two parents, two live-next-door grandparents, assorted friends, and a less-than-perfect brother. One Big Happy is a delightful collection that will introduce a popular strip already present in close to 400 newspapers. Having all these strips collected under one cover will lead readers wanting more -- and calling their local newspapers to demand it! -- Midwest Book Review

Customer Reviews

RICK DETORIE IS A CARTOONING GENIUS
I read this book to my son every night before he goes to bed. It never fails to make us laugh. Ruthie is hysterical and I think Rick Detorie is the most underrated cartoonist. Buy this book. You'll love it.

Hilarious!
I LOVED this book! Rick Detorie is definitely my favorite author. The illustrations are great, I was reading on the train ride home and I could not help but laugh out loud at times, people must have thought I was a nut! But the book is great to read, Ruthie & Joe are too cute as well as James!

Extremely Funny
Ruthie, the precocious little girl, is one of the funniest cartoon characters to be created in some time. Between her massacring of the English, commanding attitude and hysterics, you will laugh every time you read a strip with her in it. The other characters, her parents, her older brother Joe and her grandparents are also well drawn and funny. Rose, the grandmother, is particularly snide and funny. One Big Happy is the best new cartoon since Bloom County & Calvin & Hobbes debuted in the 80's.