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been a wonderful eight years, but I need a break, "

At the Happy Sunset Retirement Community, there's Ethel, Myrtle, Harvey, and Tex, And then there's Brian. The retired kid. He's here to escape school, homework, and daily chores,

But retired living has its challenges, especially when you're sixty years younger than everybody else! Reminds me of the time my oldest “ran away” from home only to return two minutes later.
.The retired kid is a book about what your life could look like, and appreciating that same life as it already is.
I read this with myyear old and she enjoyed it, I even let out a few audible nose snort laughs, Preschool or family storytime it's hard being a kid, meThe Retired Kid is interesting, because Jon Agee has a very cartoony sketchy style, and a lot of the pages look like panels because they have gutters, but the texts and pictures and not very integrated, certainly not in the way they are in comics.
The very last page has large text in a speech bubble, A puzzling hybrid.

From his official biography: "I took up painting, sculpture, lithography, photography and filmmaking, but the thing I loved most was sketching out cartoons and comic strips in my spare time.
When I graduated, I hauled my pile of doodles into the offices of a bunch of editors, with the wild notion that somebody might publish them.
When that failed, I wrote a story for kids to go with my pictures, "

I tried to find out if Jon Agee does any comics work not targeted toward children, It looks like Palindromania! is listed in the comic book database and could be more for all ages, Like William Steig another picture book author/illustrator, Jon Agee also has had some cartoons published in the New Yorker.
Ya ampuunn buku ini lucu banget sih! Idenya itu lho, . kreatip pake P

Ada seorang anak, namanya Brian, Tiap hari dia sekolah, belajar, latihan sepak bola, kursus biola, kursus vokal, ngajak anjingnya jalanjalan, jagain adiknya, belum lagi harus makan sayur.
Jadi anak kecil memang sulit!

Maka suatu hari Brian mengumumkan bahwa dia akan pensiun, Tadinya ayah dan ibunya mengira Brian hanya bosan, maka mereka membuat pesta perpisahan buatnya, Tapi ternyata Brian serius, dan dia pergi ke panti jompo, dimana orangorang tua para pensiunan berkumpul,

Disana kehidupannya menyenangkan, Dia bertemu orangorang yang menarik, main kartu, main golf, tidur siang yang panjang, mancing, nonton pertandingan, nonton bioskop, pokoke asik dah! Namanya juga panti jompo, kan kehidupan disana hanya santai menikmati masa pensiun.


Tapi setelah tiga minggu Brian stress! Ternyata jadi pensiunan itu harus mendengarkan keluhan orang jompo itu yang sakit kaki lah, liat foto keluarga ibu itu lah diulangulang terus tiap hari ya bosen juga ya, nonton film dokumenter lah gak ada cartoon network ya, belum lagi kelas merajut, dansa sama uyutuyut, dan yang parah adalah ketika Brian ngedudukin gigi palsu milik Mr Ethel! Duuuhhh gak tahan rasanya!!!

Harvey salah seorang pensiunan berkata kalo masa pensiun bikin stress, kita harus memikirkan harihari yang indah yang pernah kita jalani.
Maka Brian duduk di bawah pohon dan memikirkan masamasa indahnya dulu: ketika dia ngegolin bola ke dalam gawang, ketika nilai matematikanya bagus, ketika mentas dipanggung, membuat adiknya tertawa, dan lainlain.


Brian memutuskan untuk menyudahi masa pensiunnya dan kembali menjadi anakanak, Dia berkata ke temantemannya: "It's hard work being a kid, but guess what I LOVE MY JOB!"

nyengir kalo dipikir iya yah Jadi anak kecil tuh susah banget.
Tiap hariii disuruh makan, disuruh belajar, disuruh mandi, disuruh iniitu, Semuaaaa serba disuruh dan harus diturutin, kalo nggak, . . Hatihati kena omelan atau yang parah cubitan di paha Huuhuuhuu

Kasian juga, Getting stuck in a routine can get dull no matter where you are, Between school, and babysitting, and soccer practice, Brian is in a rut, He tells his parents "It's been a wonderful eight years, but I need a break, " The next day, he's on a plane to Florida, There his days are filled with card games, golf, and afternoon naps, But sometimes, not having a job is not all it's cracked up to be,

Very cute story by Agee about exploring other lifestyles, and learning to appreciate what you've got, Admittedly, I thought adults might get more of a chuckle out of this than kids, So I was surprised that my sixyear old got the moral of this story and made connections "Rockumentaries are those boring shows Pappy watches".
So all in all, a nice book for a laugh and to pull out when junior starts to whine about how rough life is.
And bonus points: getting to use my old man voice while reading a picture book, There's things to appreciate in one's current situation Being an overscheduled kid is hard work, but so is being retired.
A good book to read to your child when he complains what a bore it is to go to school and do chores.
The language is simple but some of the humour might be beyond your child, Nevertheless, he'll get the message all rightthat life as a kid is good, school and all, My boys were already familiar with and enjoy this book therd grader brought it home from school, but it was new to me.
They all think it's funny, I think I'd like to be retired for a month, especially if I could substitute some other activity for the golf! Very clever.
Just read it to my class ofth graders and they got a kick out of it too although they didn't agree that being a kid was a job.
This is a funny story about the drudgery and meaning of our daily work, whatever our age, It is a bit of a commentary on the activities of retired persons and the need to feel active and useful.
Our girls thought the juxtaposition was silly, Brian retires, because beingyears old is hard school, soccer, violin and not to mention his chores, He moves to Florida but soon learns that being retired is hard too,

Why I started this book: So fun to swap book recommendations with my sisters,

Why I finished it: Brian, I feel you, sometimes you need to take a couple of weeks to remember the good things in your life.
I really enjoyed this book! But then again, Jon Agee writes some really clever children's books, A little boy is tired of the job of being a little boy, So he decides to retire from that role, It's a cute book that incorporates some of the stereotypical things retirees experience, Hilarious addition to the list of "the grass is always greener" tropes, A cute story aboutyear old Brian who decides to retire from his life of school, activities, and chores, He flies to Florida, moves into a retirement community, and begins his new life, I grew up in Nyack, New York, just up the street from the Hudson River, In our house, there was always an art project going on, My early drawings were very animated: a lot of stuff zipping around, airplanes, racing cars, football players, No surprise my first published drawing was a pack of rats running along a highway The Rat Race, I did that for the New York Times Op Ed page when I was still in high school.
I went to college at The Cooper Union School of Art in New York City, I studied painting, sculpture and filmmaking, but what I loved doing mostin my spare timewas drawing cartoons and comic strips.
When I graduated, I hauled my pile of doodles into the offices of a bunch of editors, with the wild notion that somebody might publish the I grew up in Nyack, New York, just up the street from the Hudson River.
In our house, there was always an art project going on, My early drawings were very animated: a lot of stuff zipping around, airplanes, racing cars, football players, No surprise my first published drawing was a pack of rats running along a highway The Rat Race, I did that for the New York Times Op Ed page when I was still in high school.
I went to college at The Cooper Union School of Art in New York City, I studied painting, sculpture and filmmaking, but what I loved doing mostin my spare timewas drawing cartoons and comic strips.
When I graduated, I hauled my pile of doodles into the offices of a bunch of editors, with the wild notion that somebody might publish them.
When that failed, I wrote a story for kids to go with my pictures If Snow Falls, It was two sentences long which counts, by the way, Frances Foster, a wonderful editor at Random House, saw something in that book and signed me up, The next book, Ellsworth, was about a dog who teaches economics at a university, When he gets home, he throws off his clothes and acts like a dog, which is fine, until some fellow teachers discover this and he loses his job.
Somebody told me that Ellsworth was a story about "being yourself, " I never realized it had a moral, I moved to another publisher with Ludlow Laughs, the story of a grumpy guy who laughs in his sleep.
This book was doing very poorly until the comedienne Phyliss Diller read it on

PBS's Reading Rainbow, It stayed in print for over twenty years, My fourth book, The Incredible Painting of Felix Clousseau, was a hit, One of the first people to see it and give it the thumb's upliterally, hot off the presswas Maurice Sendak.
We bumped into each other at the printers, It was a lucky first meeting, and happily not our last, That was all a long time ago, Since then I've written many other picture books, illustrated a few by other authors, and created a series of offbeat wordplay books, beginning with the book of palindromes, Go Hang a Salami! I'm a Lasagna Hog!I visit schools across the country and sometimes around the globe.
I live with my wife, Audrey, in San Francisco, sitelink.