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In What, Me Pregnant? A For Better or For Worse Collection, Elly, who is juggling a new job, the adolescent traumas of Michael and now Elizabeth, plus the usual housework woes, finds out she is pregnant!! The shock finally wears off and the family deals with the idea of another person in their household. Then one stormy night baby April is born at home, and the Pattersons forget their worries and focus on the beautiful new baby girl, while getting used to midnight feedings and changing diapers!.
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I just turned forty last year and I could not conceive (ha ha)of the horror of being pregnant now. I'm just getting everything that I wanted after raising three boys. How devastating it would be! Elly and John take it well though and do a fine job, the birth of April was dramatic and special. Again, lots to laugh about.
The year's worth of strips in this For Better or For Worse collection all play out with Elly's pregnancy in the background. (Well, okay, it's actually only nine month's worth of strips, but you know what I mean.) there are a lot of funny strips in here, but my favorite is the one right before April is born. It's a goofy gag, but Ms. Johnston set it up so well. I wonder what it must have been like to read those strips one day at a time. Oh, well...
--J.
--J.
Elizabeth, 9, much to her dismay, gets glasses. Michael, 13, gets his first job, selling hot dogs at a stand. Elly, 39, somewhat to her dismay, is pregnant. Gordon considers dating his future wife, Tracey Wells. Elly gets stuck at home in a snowstorm and gives birth to April. John's obnoxious moocher cousin Fiona comes to stay and "help" with the baby, until John musters the nerve to roust her out into an apartment he rents for her. Many bookmarks of life here.
Canada, ca 1988-1994
Vi følger en lille familie, Elly - 39 år, John - ca jævnaldrende, Elizabeth, 9 år, Michael 10 år og familiens hund.
I denne samling får Elizabeth briller, hvilket hun hader. Michael får et fritidsjob med at sælge hotdogs og Elly opdager at hun er gravid. VI følger graviditeten og en lettere dramatisk fødsel af den lille ny, kaldet April. Det er isslag, hvilket får Michael til at bestille en pizza fra pizzariet, hvor pizzaen er gratis, hvis de ikke når frem til tiden. Mottoet er "We deliver", hvilket bliver dobbelttydigt da Elly føder hjemme mens det er møgvejr udenfor.
Johns kusine, Fiona, kommer og hjælper, hvilket ingen hjælp er til og de må betale indskud på en lejlighed til hende for at få hende show more ud af huset.
Glimrende skildringer af hverdagssituationer. show less
Vi følger en lille familie, Elly - 39 år, John - ca jævnaldrende, Elizabeth, 9 år, Michael 10 år og familiens hund.
I denne samling får Elizabeth briller, hvilket hun hader. Michael får et fritidsjob med at sælge hotdogs og Elly opdager at hun er gravid. VI følger graviditeten og en lettere dramatisk fødsel af den lille ny, kaldet April. Det er isslag, hvilket får Michael til at bestille en pizza fra pizzariet, hvor pizzaen er gratis, hvis de ikke når frem til tiden. Mottoet er "We deliver", hvilket bliver dobbelttydigt da Elly føder hjemme mens det er møgvejr udenfor.
Johns kusine, Fiona, kommer og hjælper, hvilket ingen hjælp er til og de må betale indskud på en lejlighed til hende for at få hende show more ud af huset.
Glimrende skildringer af hverdagssituationer. show less
Aug 28, 2011 (Edited)Danish
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Lynn Johnston, creator of the popular family cartoon strip For Better or For Worse, was born in Collingwood, Ontario, Canada, and grew up in British Columbia. She attended the Vancouver School of Art. She was the first woman to win the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year in 1985. In 1992, she received show more the NCS award for Best Syndicated Comic Strip. Lynn and her husband, Rod, live in Northern Ontario, Canada. Andie (Adrienne) Parton was born in Northern Quebec, Canada. She has lived in many cities across North America and knows plenty about leaving home. She was a life-skills coach for many foster teenagers and has well prepared them and her own three children for life on their own. Andie works as a lab technologist at McMaster Medical Center in Hamilton, Ontario show less
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- What, Me Pregnant?
- Original publication date
- 1991
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- 741.5971 — Arts & recreation Drawing & decorative arts Drawing Comic books, graphic novels, fotonovelas, cartoons, caricatures, comic strips History, geographic treatment, biography North American Canada
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- PN6728 .F6 .J68 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Comic books, strips, etc.
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