Exhibition catalog for Growing Every Which Way But Up: The Children's Book Art of Jules Feiffer, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, October 25, 2011 - January 22, 2012.

40 pages, full color. From the essay "Growing Every Which Way But Up: The Children's Book Art of Jules Feiffer" by Leonard S. Marcus, Guest Curator:
"In the children's books, Feiffer turns the tables on the older generation, foregrounding his child characters' emotional experiences and shunting the grownups to the sidelines. In these stories, childhood is not so much a matter of growing up (in the conventional sense of the phrase) as it is a question of growing in one's own individual direction."

By Norton Juster
Illustrated by Jules Feiffer

A Carle Museum "Top of the Shelf" Book.
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This is the story of a really rotten Ogre who is extraordinarily large, exceedingly ugly, unusually angry, constantly hungry, and absolutely merciless. He terrorizes the entire countryside and all of the surrounding towns, wreaking havoc, sowing confusion, and dining happily on the hapless citizens. Nothing can stop him. But then he takes a wrong turn and encounters a kind and friendly young lady who does her best to help him - with an extremely surprising result.

By Norton Juster
Illustrated by Jules Feiffer

Introduced by the comparable Maurice Sendak, The Phantom Tollbooth is a remarkable story whose humor, irony, sense and nonsense (illustrated with nearly one hundred superb Jules Feiffer drawings) make it one of the most unusual and appealing books of the twentieth century.

By Norton Juster
Illustrated by Jules Feiffer

This special 50th anniversary edition includes a new preface by Norton Juster and essays by esteemed authors, educators, and artists -- including Jeanne Birdsall, Michael Chabon, Suzanne Collins, Philip Pullman, Mo Willems, and others -- to celebrate this remarkable milestone. It also contains photographs of the author and illustrator then and now and, of course, the complete, charming story of The Phantom Tollbooth.

By Norton Juster with annotations by Leonard S. Marcus
Illustrated by Jules Feiffer

The Phantom Tollbooth is a universally beloved childhood classic. In the fifty years since its original publication, millions of children have breathlessly followed Milo's adventures in the Lands Beyond. Now Leonard Marcus, a nationally acclaimed writer on children's literature, has created a richly annotated edition of this perennial favorite.

By Jules Feiffer

A gifted humorist who has delighted readers and theater audiences for decades, Jules Feiffer now turns his talents to telling the tale of his own life.

By Kate Feiffer
Illustrated by Jules Feiffer

Sadie has wanted to go to the zoo with her dad forever, but somehow the trip has always had to be postponed. But not today! Today Dad and Sadie are in the car and finally on their way when -- oh horrors -- Dad asks, "Sadie, is it raining on your side of the car?" Inspired by a trip to a nature preserve that Jules Feiffer once took with his daughter Kate, this warmhearted tale of a child's optimism and a father's loving patience is guaranteed to tickle the funny bone, no matter the weather.

By Jules Feiffer

"Bark, George," says George's mother, and George goes: "Meow," which definitely isn't right, because George is a dog. And so is his mother, who repeats, "Bark, George." And George goes: "Quack-quack." What's going on with George? Find out in this fast, foolish, and funny farce from Jules Feiffer.

By Kate Feiffer
Illustrated by Jules Feiffer

Henry wanted one thing in life. He wanted a tail. All the other dogs he knew had tails. Grady, a black Labrador, had a great big black tail. Pip, a pug, could do tricks with her tail. Larry had a big puffy ball tail...what was Henry to do?

By Jules Feiffer

By Jules Feiffer

What do you do when your favorite toy disappears, and you can't find it where you left it? What if your family is no help at all? A determined little detective heads up the search, and discovers more than she ever expected!

By Kate Feiffer
Illustrated by Jules Feiffer

When word spreads far and wide around the globe that the First Family is looking for a pet, animals of all sorts want the part: puppies from Egypt, India, and France; a Neapolitan mastiff from Maryland; and even a kitten, a guinea pig, skunks, turtles, and a raccoon. Which puppy will be chosen? Pulitzer prize winner Jules Feiffer teams up with his daughter Kate to tell a warmhearted tale of a worldwide competition to be the perfect pet!

By Jules Feiffer

He's bad at sports and not much better at school, but Jimmy sure can draw terrific cartoons. And his dream, like that of his Uncle Lester, who writes flop Broadway musicals'is to be recognized for what he loves doing most.

By Jules Feiffer

Julie wants a dog more than anything in the world, but her parents won't let her have one until she’s old enough to walk it by herself. Julie does manage to collect some other pets while she waits, though: a sick cat, a hamster, a big, ugly fish, six smaller fish to keep the big fish company, a turtle, a strong-minded kitten, an unresponsive hermit crab, and a borrowed classroom rabbit that seems to be dying. All in one bedroom. Is enough ever enough for this critter connoisseur?

By Jules Feiffer

By Florence Parry Heide
Illustrated by Jules Feiffer

Skating downhill when you haven't learned to stop...
Getting hugged by someone you don't like...
Stepping on something squishy when you're in your bare feet...
What are you afraid of? A lot of things are scary -- but as Florence Parry Heide and Jules Feiffer show us, they can be pretty funny, too.

By Jules Feiffer

Munro is Feiffer's satirical examination of the irrationality of military bureaucracy. Also collected here are various sample comic strips -- Kermit, Dopple, and Natalie -- made when Feiffer was trying to break into the syndicated daily strip market in the early '50s. Rounding out this volume are several gag cartoons and stories which, while being incisive satires of the mores and concerns of the '50s, remain hilarious examples of Feiffer's art for readers today.

By Lois Lowry
Illustrated by Jules Feiffer

Bored, bored, bored. It's all Princess Patricia Priscilla can think as her sixteenth birthday approaches. It's less than a week before the Birthday Ball, where she will choose her husband from a group of unappealing suitors. Boring. But things around the kingdom get pretty interesting when Princess Patricia Priscilla disguises herself as a peasant and starts attending the village school. She may not be spending her days in the comfort of the castle, clothed in silk, but at least life in the village is fun. It doesn't hurt that the new schoolmaster is young and handsome. In this tale of mistaken identity, creamed pigeons, and young love, the two-time Newbery Medal winner Lois Lowry compares princesses to peasants and find them to be exactly the same in all the important ways.

By Jenny Allen
Illustrated by Jules Feiffer

Here are three delightful, bittersweet, especially-for-our-time adult stories of modern life as lived by men and women of a certain age: the baby boomer. Jenny Allen's brilliant and witty narratives and Jules Feiffer's playfully expressive drawings coax to the surface the hidden anxieties, familiar frustrations, and downright fury that we try to convince ourselves we don't really feel. In their humor, simplicity, and subtlety, these stories -- brought to life perfectly through Feiffer's drawings -- speak to our deepest adult-yet-childlike selves. There's not a grown-up among us who won't be completely charmed.

By Jules Feiffer

The Collected Works of Jules Feiffer, Vol. 4