Jules Feiffer

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born

January 26, 1929 in New York, New York, The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.julesfeiffer.com/

genre

Children's Books

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Jules Feiffer is the acclaimed author-illustrator of several books for children, including BARK, GEORGE; MEANWHILE . . .; and I LOST MY BEAR; and the illustrator of THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH, by Norton Juster. Jules Feiffer is also a renowned editorial cartoonist, playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. He has been the recipient of an Academy Award, a Pulitzer Prize, a London Theatre Critics Award, and two Obie Awards, and a retrospective exhibition of his work appeared at the Library of Congress. SOME THINGS ARE SCARY, written by Florence Parry Heide, is his first book for Candlewick Press. Coincidentally, Robert Osborne, who originally illustrated SOME THINGS ARE SCARY in 1969, was a major influence on Jules Feiffer's work. Of his first readi...more

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Books by Jules Feiffer

Average rating: 4.18 · 67869 ratings · 4539 reviews · 80 distinct works

	Bark, George 425 avg rating — 2449 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	My rating:
	A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears 434 avg rating — 262 ratings — published 1995 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Man in the Ceiling 405 avg rating — 197 ratings — published 1993 — 9 editions	My rating:
	I Lost My Bear 408 avg rating — 83 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Daddy Mountain 404 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	The Great Comic Book Heroes 406 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1965 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Meanwhile... 376 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Backing Into Forward 325 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Explainers: The Complete Village Voice Strips, 1956-1966 396 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1960 — 4 editions	My rating:
	A Room With a Zoo 369 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	My rating:

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The Collected Works (3 books)
by Jules Feiffer

401 avg rating — 72 ratings

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“Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?”
― Jules Feiffer

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“I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underpriviledged was overused, I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime, but I have a great vocabulary.”
― Jules Feiffer

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“We want playmates we can own”
― Jules Feiffer

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