Playdate: Category 5: Baby Blues Scrapbook #19 [Paperback]

Rick Kirkman (Author), Jerry Scott (Author)

Book Description

Series: Baby Blues Scrapbook | Publication Date: September 1, 2004

Imagine three hurricanes converging on one household and you get an idea of what Darryl and Wanda MacPherson experience each delightful day of parenting Zoe, Hammie, and Baby Wren. It's a perfect storm of flying foodstuffs, off-the-scale emotional outbursts, and enough offspring energy to make veteran storm chasers duck for cover... and that's before any little friends come over to play! Playdate: Category 5 captures all this and more in the latest Baby Blues collection. This book is packed with hilarious family situations and childhood challenges anyone can appreciate, whether it's fellow parents riding out their own "storms," empty nesters reveling in their calms, or parents-to-be wondering what the fuss is about. Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott are right on target in episode after episode. Their witty observations and insights - such as "I think screaming is the primary form of communication for girls"; "We've gotta learn to travel lighter, or just put some wheels on the house"; and "Sometimes being the dad is like being the weird kid in the neighborhood" - always hit the mark. Playdate: Category 5 will be treasured by those new to the strip as well as those who've appreciated its previous 18 collections. Even better than the daily installments, which appear in more than 900 newspapers and 20 magazines throughout the world, Playdate allows readers to experience the full fury of the MacPherson family tempest time and time again. It's coming on fast!

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott launched Baby Blues in 1990. Adoring fans have guffawed over their creation ever since, while admiring fellow cartoonists note Jerry's and Rick's talents with line and word. In fact, the National Cartoonists Society has bestowed Baby Blues its Best Comic Strip of the Year award, and many similar honors have come from around the world. Rick lives and works in Phoenix, Ariz. Jerry, who also collaborates on the award-winning strip Zits, lives in Malibu, California.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (September 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0740746650
• ISBN-13: 978-0740746659
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 8.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #571,452 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Laugh-out-loud parenting observations, October 6, 2004

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Playdate: Category 5: Baby Blues Scrapbook #19 (Paperback)

The latest addition to the anthologized series of the popular newspaper cartoon strip "Baby Blues", Playdate: Category 5 once again reunites us with the family of Darryl and Wanda MacPherson, their three children (Zoe, Hammie, and Baby Wren), along with the motley assortment of their friends and neighbors. The humor arising naturally from the process of parenting and resonates so clearly with the familial experiences of the readers. And then there are those recognizably immortal quotes that range from "Showers are better than baths. If you stand really close to the wall, you hardly get wet!" and " We've gotta learn to travel lighter, or just put some wheels on the house." This latest installment on the life and times of Darryl, Wanda, and the kids, will leave their legions of fans looking eagerly toward the next anthology from wit, wisdom, and laugh-out-loud parenting observations from the cartooning team of Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott!

5.0 out of 5 stars baby Blues Indeed!, May 17, 2006

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Playdate: Category 5: Baby Blues Scrapbook #19 (Paperback)

This book is like all the rest: hilarious and strange i've read them over and over again and they never get boring! :)

5.0 out of 5 stars I have three kids, three years and under..., August 7, 2005

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Senora Gose (Bryan, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Playdate: Category 5: Baby Blues Scrapbook #19 (Paperback)

And this books made me LAUGH. How WONDERFUL to know I'm not alone in the moments that I want to cry, this "full-time" mothering stuff is so hard, but instead I choose to laugh, not in a small part due to Baby Blues. I don't know if their books mirror my life, or my life mirrors their comedic endeavors, but I'm not complaining. If you're a parent, you will like this book. It'll either bring back memories, or show you what's to come, depending on the age(s) of your bundle(s) of joy. ENJOY!