The New Yorker Book of Kids* Cartoons *and the people who live with them

Wish kids came with instructions? At least you can take heart and have a laugh, safe in the knowledge that the little dears confound and amuse all of us. Nothing captures our rollicking relationship with them, and theirs with the adult world quite like New Yorker cartoons. The magazine's brilliant cartoonists (a good number of whom are rumored to have never completely left childhood behind) lead us from the hospital nursery, through toddlerhood, into the school years and beyond-to that long-lasting challenge of being an adult with parents. Selected by Robert Mankoff, cartoon editor of The New Yorker, this collection brings together 126 great cartoons (from artists including George Booth, Roz Chast, Leo Cullum, William Hamilton, Gahan Wilson, Jack Ziegler, and many more). The introduction from the one-and-only Roz Chast gives us a riot of insight and delight-which, come to think of it, is not a bad description of childhood.

The New Yorker has no equal in the world of cartooning. Robert Mankoff is the cartoon editor at The New Yorker, president and founder of The Cartoon Bank, and a very successful cartoonist in his own right. He is the editor of eight collections of New Yorker cartoons.

INDEX OF ARTISTS Charles Addams Harry Bliss George Booth Pat Byrnes Roz Chast Tom Cheney Michael Crawford Leo Cullum Whitney Darrow Jr. Eldon Dedini Liza Donnelly Dana Fradon Sam Gross William Haefeli William Hamilton J.B. Handelsman Bruce Eric Kaplan Edward Koren Lee Lorenz Robert Mankoff Charles E. Martin Henry Martin Michael Maslin Warren Miller Frank Modell James Mulligan George Price Donald Reilly Carl Rose Al Ross Bernard Schoenbaum Danny Shanahan David Sipress Barbara Smaller Peter Steiner Mick Stevens Barney Tobey Mike Twohy Dean Vietor Robert Weber Christopher Weyant Gahan Wilson Jack Ziegler