Hailed as a must for Larson fans, no matter what age (Houston Chronicle), the paperback edition of this faux children\'s fable provides a Larson-eye view of not-so-motherly nature.
Question is, will you?.
Now Larson can finally sleep at night.
Told with his trademark off-kilter humor, this first original non-- Far Side book is the unique work of a comic master.
Written and illustrated in a children\'s storybook style, There\'s a Hair in My Dirt! A Worm\'s Story is a twisted take on the difference between our idealized view of Nature and the sometimes cold, hard reality of life for the birds and the bees and the worms (not to mention our own species).
Or so she thinks.
It is a journey filled with mystery and magic.
And so Father Worm describes the saga of a fair young maiden and her adventuresome stroll through her favorite forest, a perambulator\'s paradise.
This, in turn, spurs his father to tell him a story--a Story to inspire the children of invertebrates everywhere.
He becomes rather upset, not just about his tainted meal but about his entire miserable, wormy life.
It begins a few inches underground, when a young worm, during a typical family dinner, discovers there\'s a Hair in his plate of dirt.
Something that would return him to his roots in biology, drawing and dementia--a tale called There\'s a Hair in My Dirt! A Worm\'s Story .
Something haunted him.
He couldn\'t sleep nights.
Gary was restless.
They threw some back.
He threw sticks for his dogs.
He made a couple short films.
He went into hiding. (And was confusing to millions more.) But one day he stopped.
It was a cartoon that appeared for many years in daily newspapers and was loved by millions. -- Washington Post Once upon a time in a place far away, lived a man named Gary Larson who used to draw cartoons.
Wilson proves it\'s legit. more entertaining than any science class I remember and the foreword by biologist Edward O. . .
There\'s a Hair in My Dirt! is hysterical .
Full color.
Hailed as a must for Larson fans, no matter what age (Houston Chronicle), the paperback edition of this faux children\'s fable provides a Larson-eye view of not-so-motherly nature
