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X-Treme Parenting: A Baby Blues Treasury

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Another great treasury of Baby Blues! Be warned however, all these strips are also in the two newest non-treasury books (a Briefcase full of Baby Blues, and Night Shift). [But isn't that what a treasury is?]

This is an excellent example of the authors recycling prior released material to sell another book! First of all, I love the Baby Blues strip and have all of the collections of strips that have been published up until now. I was excited to see that another collection was being released of what I assumed was strips published in newspapers over the last year as these collections normally are. I started reading this collection. I thought as I read that I had already seen these. I looked at the first few pages to see if the authors mention the prior release of these strips, but could find nothing at first glance.

This book is a combined collection of "Briefcase Full of Baby Blues" and "Night Shift" which are the last two books that were published. You only find this out by the small print on the bottom of the outside back cover. This is deceitful to readers, but I guess the authors laugh all the way to the bank. I won't order their collections again on the "pre-order" option by Amazon again. I will wait in the future for the book to be in my local chain bookstore so I don't get cheated again. The books are never released anyway when the publisher says it will be. It has been 30 to 60 days later each time.

As a mom of MANY - I love their take on parenting - Good clean laughs - worth the money!

I love this comic strip, and read it religiously, often laughing aloud at the antics of the kids. However, of all the Baby Blues compilations that I have read this one gave me the fewest laughs for my dollar. I do recommend it and will read the next compilation, but can't rate it as highly as I rated the other Baby Blues books.

b.butler, this isn't recycled materials, treasuries are compilations of the smaller books. they're all like that! if you've read any other baby blues treasuries you should know this. anyways, another great baby blues book