A BOOK REVIEW ON "THE INDISPENSABLE CALVIN AND HOBBES" BY TIPU.

WHEN THE COVER OF THIS BOOK SAYS " INDISPENSABLE "-IT REALLY MEANS IT.THE COMPILATION,"THE INDISPENSIBLE CALVIN CALVIN AND HOBBES"CONTAINS SOME OF THE BEST CALVIN AND HOBBES COMICS ONE HAS EVER BEEN THROUGH.

WITTILY WRITTEN AND INTELLIGENTLY ARRANGED,THIS BOOK IS A MUST READ FOR ALL COMIC LOVERS.

CALVIN IS THE HIGHILY IMAGINATIVE KID NEXT DOOR,WHO HATES SCHOOL,LOATHES GIRLS AND DISLIKES DOING HOMEWORKS . HE LIVES IN A WORLD OF CREATIVITY AS SOMETIMES HE IMAGINES BEING A "CALVINOSAURUS" OR"STUPENDOUS MAN"OR"SPACEMAN SPIFF".HE ALSO GETS INTO TROUBLE ALMOST EVERY DAY SOME WAY OR THE OTHER.

CALVIN'S BEST BUDDY IS THE CUDLY STUFFED TIGER, HOBBES,WHO COMES TO LIFE WHEN NO ONE IS AROUND , EXCEPT CALVIN.HE PLAYS GAMES WITH CALVIN,SLEDS WITH HIM AND SLEEPS WITH HIM AT NIGHT.HOBBES HAS A HABIT OF POUNCING ON CALVIN WHEN HE RETURNS HOME FROM SCHOOL.THEY QUARREL FREQUENTLY BUT TOGETHER THEY HAVE A BLAST EVERY DAY.

CALVIN'S MOM & DAD HAS A PROBLEM ,EACH DAY,WITH THEIR "BRAT"KID.BUT THEY LOVE HIM A LOT. CALVIN'S NEIGHBOUR,SUSIE DERKINS IS A FRIEND WHOM HE HATES TO CALL HER SO.MISS WORMWOOD IS THE STRICT TEACHER &CALVIN IS TERRIFIED OF THE TEENAGED BABY-SITTER,ROSALYN.

THE COMICS IN THIS BOOK ARE ADVENTEROUS & REALLY FUNNY. THE ILLUSTRATIONS ARE EXCELLENT.ON THE WHOLE,HATS OFF TO BILL WATTERSON FOR COMING UPWITH SUCH A UNIQUE CONCEPT .

THIS IS A BOOK YOU ALL WILL ENJOY READING,I'M SURE & I WON'T BE SURPRISED ,IF THE NEXT DAY YOUR MOM SEES YOU TALKING TO YOUR STUFFED TOY!

T I P U

NO SMOKING

By MoBo

It is no joke

You will kill me
with your smoke

Please don't smoke

Or one day, you will surely choke

Never, ever try to smoke
But you can always take a coke*!

So take my advice
Or within years
Your lungs will get sliced
You'll be hated by your dears

Don't go smoking on
Or one day you will
be



gone!

* Tho these days also dangerous indeed!!

Welcome to Mango Smiles

We are speaking from the newly organized editor's desk here in Kolkata, India. This site is going to be all about how to make a mango smile!! No, but actually it's about that same feeling you get when you bite into the first mango of the summer season -- happy all over!

We promise to issue a copy of Mango Smiles in paper form at least once a year (we've had a long holiday...). This issue is supposed to be printed during the pujas and we aim to keep our environment clean and green as people tend to come and litter their wastes during this time of year.

We are urging all the members at our library to contribute their creativity in the forms of jokes, poems, stanzas, stories, interviews, paintings and artwork, reports, craft ideas, and much more! We also have a group called Earthinkers, that tries to learn about problems happening all over the planet and that tries to educate people on how to change things.


By (Your faithful editors and manager)
Momo, Jojo, Tokai
and Manager Maude