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| Amelia Rules! Volume 1: The Whole World's Crazy (Amelia Rules) | 
 enlarge | Author: Jimmy Gownley
Publisher: Renaissance Press
Category: Book
List Price: $11.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 275271
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st Renaissance Press Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.4
ISBN: 0971216924
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9780971216921
ASIN: 0971216924
Publication Date: September 13, 2006
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Product Description
New school, new friends and a new life are what's in store for nine-year-old Amelia McBride. Forced out of Manhattan and into small-town life after her parents' divorce, Amelia struggles to keep her sanity among her new friends. Told with hip wit and charm, this trade collects the first five issues of the acclaimed series.
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The Successor to Calvin and Hobbes March 22, 2004
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Amelia Rules! is a tough gem, a weepy comedy, a painful joy and an hysterically funny tragedy waiting to happen. Amelia and her buds--Reggie, Rhonda and Pajamaman--are struggling with the ins and outs of 4th Grade society, the very real problem of poverty, divorce and just pure meanness. The situations are SO realistic that, in the wrong hands, they could become maudlin and cliche.
But Gownley doesn't do cliche. To relieve the pain, he breathes each situation full of snappy humor and the awe you first felt when you discovered something "new." Reggie is obsessed, not only with superheroes, but with telling colorful background tales for the most mundane of concepts (the "Latchky Kids"--yes, the spelling is correct--is priceless); Pajamaman is the silent loner who sees all and who acts as everyone's therapist. Rhonda Bleenie is that delicate mix of lovestruck girl and amazon tough guy. And then there is Amelia, miss mouth, confused about her place in the universe and worried that she is the reason for her parents' divorce, even as she yells at them for getting their divorce. The kids are so real it's impossible not to want to reach into the frames of the comic and hug them all. If you loved Calvin (another very real little boy) and Hobbes (a pretty
realistic imaginary tiger) you will also love Amelia and the Gang.
The future of comics November 18, 2003
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Walk into any comic book shop, and you'll be overwhelmed by a slew of ugly
books selling sex and violence. It sometimes seems as if the entire industry
has given up on what was once their core demographic...children.
Into this environment steps Amelia Rules! a hip, funny, and literate book that
should appeal to kids and grown-ups alike. Make no mistake, this is great work, and a worthy heir to the cartooning crown of Charles M. Schulz.
comics a child of any age will love October 12, 2003
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
jimmy gownley's amelia is an all-american girl--fun to be with, fun to read and beautifully drawn in comics style. finally a comic book that's "G" rated for content and A+ for style.
Hilarious for grownups May 18, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was reading this last night and was laughing my head off. It's brilliant and funny. My 4th grade daughter likes it a lot too, though she doesn't get all the jokes. Get this for your kid or get it for yourself - just get it!
Perfect 10 on the Can't-Put-It-Down Scale! February 28, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
When my 7-year old son is fighting with my 9-year old daughter for his turn to read AMELIA RULES!, you know these books are going to be a hit. The artwork is beautiful, the dialogue full of great humor and pathos, the stories engaging. But what appeals most to the kids, I think, is the characters themselves. Amelia is out-and-out fascinating--a perfect combination of pre-teen girl and tomboy--and her friends are as lively and entertaining as any you'll find in American literature.
In fact, this IS literature, and if you're the kind of parent who thinks comics are no better for kids than TV, AMELIA RULES! will prove you completely and utterly wrong. Get these books. Your kids won't be able to put them down--and neither will you.
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