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A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears

Jules Feiffer

Paperback | Pages: 192 pages

Rating: 4.32 | 790 Users | 99 Reviews

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Title	:	A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears
Author	:	Jules Feiffer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 192 pages
Published	:	March 7th 1998 by HarperCollins (first published September 1st 1995)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Humor. Fiction. Young Adult. Childrens. Middle Grade

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Fondly known to my friends and me as the "Roger Book," this book has quickly become a favorite not only with me, but also with my friends, my family and my sixth grade students. It follows Prince Roger through his quest to find he doesn't know what, he doesn't know where, and he'll only know he has found it when neither of them are laughing. However, even if Roger is not laughing, the reader definitely will be.

This book is a delightfully engaging story which works amazingly well as a read-aloud. When used in the classroom, it provides wonderful opportunities for discussing various elements of story, plot, and figurative language, as well as providing discussion about friendship, love, and life.

Present Books During A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears

Original Title:	A barrel of laughs, a vale of tears.
ISBN:	0062059262 (ISBN13: 9780062059260)
Edition Language:	English

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Had this as an audiobook while we went on vacation, it was okay.

One of my favorite books ever since the first time I read it. This is a children's book and an adult's book, just like many others. Winnie the Pooh, anyone?Roger has an unusual effect on people. Everyone within a hundred yards of him can't help but laugh. This creates a lot of problems for him -- or rather, the people around him. Roger learns to take life seriously and figures out what's important.And this is pretty much the best book ever!I recommend it to absolutely, positively everyone.Enjoy!

I reread this book, and then realized that I've never once put it on Goodreads. Silly Keels. Anyway, it was delightful as always. Doesn't take itself seriously in the slightest, which is what makes it such a great read to begin with. I always loved the idea of fantasy tales, but have never really gotten addicted to high fantasy like most. Sure, I like specific renditions such as Tolkein's, Edding's, and the like, but the overly serious sorts with the thousands of names and races and

To attempt describing this brilliant book from the illustrator of The Phantom Tollbooth would be to miss the point. It is one of those rare books which can be read and reread over and over again, never quite the same and never really that different. Like a comfortable sweater, like old love letters, like a cup of hot cocoa and a well-written rom-com but not a particularly kissing book, (that I recall), if you love a book that will make you laugh, make you cry, and will leave you feeling that the

Another of Feiffer's children's books, and it's a delight. Roger is a prince, and he's never had to do anything or decide anything in his life. So he's sent on a quest, to gain experience, to become a man. Feiffer's clearly inspired by friend Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth, as this book's filled with playful language and whimsical humor (even a metatextual joke about the sloppy art in Tollbooth!) The characters are crafted some solid archetypes, but always given a surprising twist. Highly

Well, that's done.This is a children's chapter book with a lot of fun illustrations. BUT... This fairytale should have been given to kids a couple centuries ago. I can't imagine reading it to my boys back in the 1970's without surrounding it with a lot of plays of the video or album of Free to be You and Me. It is male heavy with the females in lowly roles of being rescued and put in their places as wives and mothers. So, I wouldn't have read it to my daughter in the 1980's. As adults, I might