![]() ![]() Told with his trademark off-kilter humor, this first original non-Far Side book is the unique work of a comic master. Written and illustrated in a children's storybook style, There's a Hair in My Dirt! A Worm's Story is a twisted take on the difference between our idealized view of Nature and the sometimes cold, hard reality of life for the birds and the bees and the worms (not to mention our own species). What exactly does the maiden encounter? Does Son Worm learn a lesson? More important, does he eat his plate of fresh dirt? Well, you'll have to read to find out, but let's just say the answers are right under your feet. It is a journey filled with mystery and magic. And so Father Worm describes the saga of a fair young maiden and her adventuresome stroll through her favorite forest, a perambulator's paradise. This, in turn, spurs his father to tell him a story-a story to inspire the children of invertebrates everywhere. He becomes rather upset, not just about his tainted meal but about his entire miserable, wormy life. It begins a few inches underground, when a young worm, during a typical family dinner, discovers there's a hair in his plate of dirt. ![]() ![]() (Besides Gramps.) Something that would return him to his roots in biology, drawing and dementia-a tale called There's a Hair in My Dirt! A Worm's Story. (And was confusing to millions more.) But one day he stopped. It was a cartoon that appeared for many years in daily newspapers and was loved by millions. Once upon a time in a place far away, lived a man named Gary Larson who used to draw cartoons. ![]()
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