It's a Magical World

Calvin is a mischievous young boy, and Hobbes is his tiger, a stuffed animal to everyone else and a living companion to him. This collection of Calvin and Hobbes strips gathers more of their days together, the last book of new material to come after Bill Watterson discontinued the daily strip.

The cast around the pair is familiar. Calvin's long-suffering parents, his classmate Susie Derkins, his teacher Miss Wormwood and the baby-sitter Rosalyn all turn up, each one the target of his schemes.

The book includes the full-color Sunday strips. Calvin turns into a firefly and wakes Hobbes with the glow of his flashlight. As Spaceman Spiff, he rockets through alien galaxies and fights Dad, who has become a Bug-Being. His snowman art gets its own strange invention.

Each strip reads on its own, so the book suits dipping in as much as reading straight through. It is a way back to a strip that no longer runs in the newspaper, with a firefly, a spaceman and a row of odd snowmen waiting on the pages.