Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for December 26, 2019

This the season to be trolling:-).

I hold nothing personal against the Emily Zap series, but it does contain some backwards and stereotyped views.

Though they are still rare, there are female wizards and male witches.

I (emphasis on “I”) got a book for Chrismtas: “Saints at War: World War I” (it’s about accounts of soldiers of WWI who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; I’ll add it with my “Saints at War” WWII and Korea/Vietnam editions which I already have from the past some years).

Depends on what kind of book, Marigold.

I was thinking “Emily of New Moon.”

I had the first appearance of Voltina.

Phoebe’s dialog is twice wrong and should be “your being envious,” NOT “you being jealous.”First, “jealousy” is “envy” complicated with unrequited/lustful romantic rivalry. I might envy you your annual salary, but I am jealous of your relationship with a person I have a crush on.Marigold Heavenly Nostrils has no unrequited/lustful romantic interest in Phoebe’s Christmas presents.Second, the issue is “being envious/jealous.” “[B]eing” is a gerund, so it requires an adjective, not a pronoun, as a modifier, and, yes, gerunds ARE covered by the fourth grade. Since Phoebe’s only nine and in the fourth grade, she’s intelligent enough to have learned and grasped the correct use of gerunds. Ms Simpson knows better and should set a better example for all the kids who read her strip. There’s nothing wrong and a lot right about Ms Simpson’s using her strip to bolster schoolchildren’s English skills.

I gifted myself the three illustrated autobiogrphies by Raina Telgemeier this year. I had “Smile” and “Ghosts” once but as e-books and they died along with my tablet.

Marigold is the only character I know to envy inanimate objects on a semiregular basis.

How is Phoebe already halfway through the book?

I can read my wife like a book also, of course I use the braille method…