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Teaching Is a Learning Experience!: A For Better or For Worse Collection (For Better or for Worse Collections)

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As a teacher, I have found this particular volume of Lynn Johnson's to touch a particular chord with me. But then again, I have been using her cartoon strips to teach with, for years. Her gentle yet penetrating way of looking at life with children, from babyhood through the teen years with its peer pressure, to adulthood, make me laugh out loud and cry as well. Long may she put out her strip, well into great grandmotherhood!

I know it's a cartoon, but Lynn Johnston captures home life so well that I feel I've known this family intimately for years. I'm fascinated by Elizabeth's choice to teach in such a remote area. I learn so much from her experiences there. I've got all the books from the first and frequently reread them from start to finish. This latest is in perfect keeping with the others. As Lynn takes us further from home base, we become involved with those extended people in the lives of Ellie's children. There's a whole world there that we will miss when Lynn decides it's time to pack it in.

What really can be said? Anyone following the Patterson family will love this edition of storyline! Lynn's style and talent continue with her at the top of her craft once again.

I have always been a huge fan of For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston and, this book is no exception. This one focuses on Elizabeth and her teaching in the North Country. She sure has grown up since we first saw her as a toddler! She is a talented and extremely capable young woman.

Lynn Johnston has done it again. What a great treasury of her cartoons - we can see the entire family growing through their own thing - at the same time we can feel the family sticking together.

I was a bit surprised at the arrival of the "attack" Elizabeth storyline - as I always find that Lynn's world is a little sugary, but it was well done and is obviously a ploy to bring Anthony back into the fold.

Great series.

Another Great book to visit the Patterson's with. "For Better / For Worse" has to be one of the best comic strips of all time. It really makes you think, "They are just like my family", and if you do not have kids, read the books so you know what to prepare for.

Michael and Elizabeth, the beloved child stars of formerly funny comic strip, "For Better Or For Worse", are now both so talented and good-looking they're hardly recognizable anymore.

Even more curious than ever, those dazzling models of young adults have both moved back in with their parents (the boy has actually dragged along his own family) even after having launched fabulously successful careers (the boy has even gotten his first book published as well as passing down his superb genes to his offspring and the girl had been enjoying an exotic position of teaching precocious Native American tots as well as being chased by the most dashing dreamboat predators found in the tackiest romance novels.)

Now the sweet young Elizabeth Patterson is pouting her suddenly full lips and moping around the house like she's a moody little girl once again - without a job and silently glaring at her brother behind his back as he is reaping in newfound fame and fortune. While Warren, the rakishly handsome helicopter pilot, is watching her every move and waiting to make his own strike - and eventually betray her, too. (We all know how it would end: Elizabeth eventually marries her childhood sweetheart, Anthony and gives his own dusky, raven-tressed daughter a whole supply of curly-haired, blue-eyed Kewpie-doll siblings. Nothing new.)

At least April, now that she is no longer in the spotlight as a dimpled little troublemaker, has taken on the role of a rather colorless, though somewhat pesky young teenager.