I was pleasantly surprised when he came up the stairs with a number of Calvin and Hobbes collections. The used bookstore owner had forgotten to price them; so, to make things easy he said they would be $10 each. The price sounded fair to me, and I bought six books/collections.
A month earlier, my eight-year old son had his first introduction to the dynamic duo. My wife had given The Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book to him, along with a number of other books, as an Advent gift. He thoroughly enjoyed it; reading it alone in bed, laughing and giggling.
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