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Nobody is Perfick
by Waber, Bernard
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0395125820
- ISBN 13
- 9780395125823
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Bernard Waber. 128 pages. Name of previous owner is on fep. DJ front flap bottom corner is clipped (price is at the top corner). DJ has some wear and soiling. Published compliments slip laid in. This is a book about friends. Nobody is Perfick is a perfect combination of drawings and dialogue dramatizing everyday situations. This contains eight brief episodes show that even best friends and sunny days can have shortcomings. Bernard Waber (September 27, 1921-May 16, 2013) was an American children's author most famous for the books The House on East 88th Street (1962), Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (1965) and the subsequent books in the Lyle series. Waber wrote numerous children's books about the adventures of animals, including Do You See a Mouse?, Evie and Margie, An Anteater named Arthur, and A Lion Named Shirley Williamson. Waber's Lyle series, started in 1962, was his most well-known set of children's books. In the books, Lyle is a city-dwelling crocodile that lives in a bathtub. Lyle's character brings joy to everyone he meets. In 1954, Waber wrote his first illustrated book My Egg, Your Egg! by Eleanor Estes is published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. Shortly after the attacks of September 11, 2001, Waber wrote the book Courage. In the book, through various characters, children are taught the meaning of bravery. Nobody Is Perfick "Comes very near to being a minor masterpiece, so sure is its understanding of the ingredients which make up life's more humble, quiet desperation. It is a child's book but the eight truths it catalogues are universal in their implications." — New York Times. From a Kirkus review: Nobody is Perfick . . . except for Peter Perfect, antihero of the final sketch in this original set of drawings and dialogues. Though it seems that ""PETER PERFECT'S PAPA PICKED A PERFECT PETER,"" the last page reveals him from behind as a wind-up toy. Through all the cartoon-like vignettes, words and pictures make childlike fun that is never coy or condescending.
Synopsis
Eight brief episodes show that even best friends and sunny days can have shortcomings.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 81941
- Title
- Nobody is Perfick
- Author
- Waber, Bernard
- Illustrator
- Bernard Waber
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing [Stated]
- ISBN 10
- 0395125820
- ISBN 13
- 9780395125823
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- Everyday Situations, Perfection, Wind-up Toy, Illustrated Books, Pictorial Works, Children's Literature, Diary, Rain, Peter Perfect, Daydream
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