Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes
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| Author | Linda Holmen, Mary Santella-Johnson, Bill Watterson |
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| Illustrator | Jan Roebken, Bill Watterson |
| Cover artist | Jan Roebken |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Speech and language pathology |
| Genre | Children's textbook |
| Publisher | Playground Publishing |
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1993 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 200 |
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| OCLC | 29340469 |
Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes is an American children's textbook published in 1993. As a rare piece of officially licensed Calvin and Hobbes merchandise, it is a highly valued collectible.
Written by a speech-language pathologist and a learning disabilities educator, Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes is a language textbook for elementary and intermediate-level students. Jan Roebken created the cover and additional interior illustrations.
The book reprints fifty-seven Calvin and Hobbes comic strips, organized into five lesson units. Each unit begins with a series of comic strips that form a story. The five units are:
In each unit, questions for comprehension and discussion follow the comic strips:
In both the 1996 first edition and the 2006 second edition of their book How To Reach and Teach All Children in the Inclusive Classroom, teachers Sandra F. Rief and Julie A. Heimburge "highly recommend" Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes as an educational resource.
Owing to Bill Watterson's principled refusal to license his comic strip for merchandise in general,Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes is an exceptional item; a license was granted to the authors after they personally communicated to Watterson the success they had using his comic strip to teach children with learning disabilities.
Published in a limited print run in Fargo, North Dakota,Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes is a very rare and highly sought-after book.
In the 2010 revised edition of his book Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip, Nevin Martell says that only after a long search did he obtain a copy of Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes, that copies of the book sell for very high prices, and that the book is "perhaps the most difficult piece of official Calvin and Hobbes memorabilia to find."
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