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Barnaby

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Author(s):Crockett Johnson
Illustrator(s):Crockett Johnson
Publisher(s): Henry Holt and Company
Year Published: 1943
Type: Hardcover
Genre: American
Boys Growing Up
Fantasy - American
Humorous
Age Range: Ages 5-7: Early Reader Books
Pages: 361
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 705672897

Description

Barnaby was a comic strip which began April 20, 1942 in the newspaper PM and was later syndicated in 64 American newspapers (for a combined circulation of more than 5,500,000).

Barnaby wishes for a fairy godmother and gets Mr. O’Malley, a cigar smoking Irish fairy godfather.

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Other Sequels

Barnaby and Mr. O’Malley (1944)

Further adventures of five year old Barnaby and his fairy godfather Jackeen J. O’Malley.

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
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Barnaby Volume One (2013)

This first volume of the complete Barnaby comic strip covers 1942-1943, as Barnaby first meets his Fairy Godfather, Jackeen J. O’Malley, a cigar smoking Irishman.

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Publisher: Fantagraphics
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Barnaby Volume Two (2014)

Further adventures of Barnaby, a precocious five year old and his Fairy Godfather, Mr. O’Malley. These strips were originally published in 1944-1945.

Publisher: Fantagraphics
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Barnaby Volume Three (2015)

Barnaby, a precocious five year old, tries to restrain his Fairy Godfather, Jackeen J. O’Malley a cigar smoking Irishman.

Publisher: Fantagraphics
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