Keep the Home Fries Burning : A For Better or for Worse Collection [Paperback]

Lynn Johnston (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1989 | Series: A for Better Or for Worse Collection

Join the Pattersons for a volume full of hilarious and touching cartoon fun in Keep the Home Fries Burning. The peaks and valleys of family life, the curious revelations of children, and the patent lunacy of owning a dog-these are the simple charms that have engaged readers of the For Better of For Worse strip for decades.

Product Details

• Paperback: 127 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing; Original edition (1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0836220803
• ISBN-13: 978-0836220803
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #273,899 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lynn Johnston lives in Corbeil, Ontario, Canada. She was the first woman to win the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year in 1985. In the summer of 2008, she was inducted into the "Giants of the North," the Canadian Cartoonists Hall of Fame.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great early collection!, September 5, 2000

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David A. Bede (Singapore) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Keep the Home Fries Burning : A For Better or for Worse Collection (Paperback)

This is my favorite of the early FBoFW collections, from back in the days when it was only serious some of the time. (Not that I don't like it now, just that it is different these days!) Chronologically speaking, this was the era when Elizabeth went to kindergarten and Michael was in grade school, so none of the teenage angst Johnston portrays so well is on display here. But childhood is played for plenty of laughs as we see Elizabeth off to her first day of school ("My baby has joined the system," Elly muses) and Michael endures a Halloween party with his mother as chaperone - one of the funnier sequences in the collection.

There are a few Great Moments in Patterson History along the way, as Connie and Lawrence move to Thunder Bay and the kids' friends Brian and Dawn move into their old house. Even Deanna Sobinski makes an early appearance, though she doesn't look like the same person Johnston draws today (then again, she was only nine years old). And as always, we find that there are laughs to be had in everyday events. If you like the more recent strips and books, you'll love this one.

5.0 out of 5 stars Lynn Johnson collection, January 6, 2008

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Geri H. Ball - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Keep the Home Fries Burning : A For Better or for Worse Collection (Paperback)

in trying to collect all of this series of books this is a good one to buy

5.0 out of 5 stars Another delightful excerpt in the life of the Pattersons, July 14, 2006

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Peggy (FPO, AP USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Keep the Home Fries Burning : A For Better or for Worse Collection (Paperback)

I've been reading FBorFW for over twenty years. The Pattersons feel 'like family'. Like 'The Last Straw', I bought this book for my Dad and before I could send it to him, my teen-aged sons read it. They too are now hooked. Lynn Johnston deals with real life issues. I've laughed, cried, and reflected over this strip as I have no other. It's the only one I've kept up with consistently since I began reading it. I also check it out on-line as my newspapers do not carry it.