Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 15, 2011

I hate bed time stories!

There’s a sign to tell if your Dad is an old fuddy duddy.

Well that just ruined a classic. Thanks, Dad!pouncingtiger, I must be a fuddy duddy, too. I hate remakes of my favorite classic movies.

Oh, like Calvin would have appreciated an ending where the hunter killed the tiger? I don’t think so!

Pounced?

I had a tiger hand puppet tiger I called Tigger and a stuffed dog I called Prince. Never once tried to change a bed-time story.

Remember Hobbes’ feelings in all of this….

Thank you. Dad. G’morning, Mike, Marg & Grog!

My dad read me Blake and showed the etchings. I shivered under the covers all night and didn’t make a peep.

I like how from Calvin’s perspective it’s a tiger, but from Calvin’s Dad’s (?) perspective it’s a stuffed animal.But it’s really something less tangent.

And if this ended in the mid-late nineties, why is it still running here?

Good morning Marg!Good morning Fran!Good Morning L’Wolf!Good Morning Grog!

I remember very fondly being read to before bed. I think more parents ought to engage in that sort of activity.

I almost got attacked by a deer once

Ah, the stuff that Sweet Dreams are made of!

I was never read to as a child… I think I missed out! I grew up not liking reading.

I loved reading to my kids when they were little. A variety of books as they grew (we went through Charlotte’s Web over the course of several nights), but I started them off with my own favorites — the same classic Dr. Seuss works that I grew up with.

In the last third of the strip it looks like Dad is finally figuring out how to modify the story to Calvin’s liking, but then he looks somewhat upset at having done it. Why?

YAY! (Well, for the tiger, that is)

I joined the Children’s Book Club when my first was born. I have so many great childrens books in mint condition for the most part. Read to both of them, those were wonderful times.

Because by the third “correction,” paullp, Calvin’s become a pain in the neck about it with his constant interruptions, as usual. I’d have become somewhat annoyed, too!

That having been said, count me as another one who was lucky enough to have been read to as a child. My parents, my stepmother, and my paternal grandmother all read to my brothers and me when we were growing up (my mother was especially good at this; I still remember her inflections and expressions when she read “Chicken Little” to me), as well as several of my elementary school teachers, and I LOVED it. It was how I was introduced to some of my favorite literary classics, including “The Jungle Book,” “Little House on the Prairie,” “The Red Badge of Courage,” “The Boxcar Children,” “Where the Red Fern Grows,” and “Charlotte’s Web.”

My Mom always read to us, and we loved it. I grew up with a love of books and reading.

i loved reading to my daughter. i think it was for me also, i wasn’t read to, but have always read.

Something wrong with the personal touch?

Pounced – definition of Pounced by the Free Online Dictionary …pounce 1 (pouns) v. pounced, pounc·ing, pounc·es. v. intr. 1. To spring or swoop with intent to seize someone or something: a cat that pounced on a mouse www.thefreedictionary.com/Pounced

GOOD PM ALL

Here’s one for the prfesser:Thatababy: March 11, 2011

before we could read, My older brother read to my brother and I about a cat named “Pickles” We were literally rolling on the floor laughing, absolutely sure he was making it uponly to find out later, nope he was reading it verbatim.

@GROG—wait until your eyes need help and you have arthritic hands. Then you will LOVE a Kindle so that you can keep on reading. I have one and it is great. Realized I was choosing books by the size of type and the weight of the bound book so knew something had to change.

Me too, (comic strip) Hobbes!

Hi _SUSAN NEWMAN. In the new system, the enlarger only works on weekdays. In the old system, they were having a problem with the tall, thin Sunday strips like Peanuts and Doonesbury, because the enlarger was trying to fit the entire strip on the screen and it was actually making it smaller instead of larger. So, in the new version it seems like they just turned off the enlarger for all Sunday strips.Unfortunately, Calvin and Hobbes is displayed quite small on Sundays, and it needs the enlarger. And since it is not a tall, thin strip, there would be no problem with using the enlarger. We should all ask GoComics to turn on the enlarger for Calvin and Hobbes Sunday strips, even if they have to leave it off for Peanuts, etc.

Anybody else who was a member of the “Sweet Pickles” book club? And Richard Scarry was another favorite.

Hi GretchensMom. Glad to see your comment, because you sounded really frustrated with the new system a few days ago. I always like reading your comments.

I recently read a story about a man-eating tiger and a serial killer. The authorities fail to catch both, but the tiger eats the serial killer in the end. Calvin would like it.http://www.amazon.com/Sagramanda-Near-future-Alan-Dean-Foster/dp/1591026458/

Mythreesons and Fellow Baby My father loved to read, especially after my mom passed away. It helped him “pass the time” he said. Luckily, our local library has a large selection of Large Print books, as did the local B & N. He especially loved the mysteries, Agatha Christie, Earl Stanly Garner, etc. and history. Got so he had trouble with the newspaper though, so I bought a really neat magnifyer/lamp from Hammacher Schlemmer. It worked great. After he passed away I kept it because I’m sure I will need it one day as well.

Fellow Baby, I am probably more likely to have vision problems than arthritis problems. I may have to get one of those magnifiers for myself.

Susan: Good question. I had to scroll back up to see what you were talking about. I had just used the magnifier on On a Claire Day.

pounced, no. Tiggers BOUNCE!!

Some strips have the magnifier option and some don’t. No rhyme or reason as to why.

How did the hunter get away with the gun? Hm…

best story ever im shedding tears myself