Keep the Home Fries Burning

by Lynn Johnston

Book Overview

Cartoons take a humorous look at family life, including television, badminton, trumpet lessons, barbecues, friends moving away, the first day of school, Halloween, Christmas pageants, and inlaws. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0836220803
• ISBN13: 9780836220803
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Lynn Johnson collection

in trying to collect all of this series of books this is a good one to buy

Another delightful excerpt in the life of the Pattersons

I've been reading FBorFW for over twenty years. The Pattersons feel 'like family'. Like 'The Last Straw', I bought this book for my Dad and before I could send it to him, my teen-aged sons read it. They too are now hooked. Lynn Johnston deals with real life issues. I've laughed, cried, and reflected over this strip as I have no other. It's the only one I've kept up with consistently since I began reading it. I also check it out on-line as my newspapers do not carry it.

A great early collection!

This is my favorite of the early FBoFW collections, from back in the days when it was only serious some of the time. (Not that I don't like it now, just that it is different these days!) Chronologically speaking, this was the era when Elizabeth went to kindergarten and Michael was in grade school, so none of the teenage angst Johnston portrays so well is on display here. But childhood is played for plenty of laughs as we see Elizabeth off to her first day of school ("My baby has joined the system," Elly muses) and Michael endures a Halloween party with his mother as chaperone - one of the funnier sequences in the collection.There are a few Great Moments in Patterson History along the way, as Connie and Lawrence move to Thunder Bay and the kids' friends Brian and Dawn move into their old house. Even Deanna Sobinski makes an early appearance, though she doesn't look like the same person Johnston draws today (then again, she was only nine years old). And as always, we find that there are laughs to be had in everyday events. If you like the more recent strips and books, you'll love this one.

She Did It Then & She's Doing Now

Writing funny & real comics is what I meant.