Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for May 24, 2015

How good of a review did the author get from its publishers?

My guess is the final critter says, "I don’t know. Ask Dierdre.

Ask the tardigrade!Ask the wobbegong!Ask the sarcastic fringehead!

I tried to re-read that not too long ago, but I gave up about a third of the way through it. I kept waiting for something to happen, but nothing ever did.

Not so silly Mr. Otterloop. It’s a great way for a 4-year old kid to learn new animals. If it’s really too much for you, try skipping a few pages and go straight to the end. After a few million animals, you’ll finally know if they eat marzipan on mars.

Marzipan is a confection consisting primarily of sugar or honey and almond meal, sometimes augmented with almond oil or extract. It is often made into sweets; common uses are chocolate-covered marzipan and small marzipan imitations of fruits and vegetables. It is also rolled into thin sheets and glazed for icing cakes, primarily birthday, wedding cakes and Christmas cakes. This use is particularly common in the UK, on large fruitcakes. Marzipan (or almond paste) may also be used as a cake ingredient, as in stollen. In some countries, it is shaped into small figures of animals as a traditional treat for New Year’s Day. Marzipan is also used in Tortell, and in some versions of king cake eaten during the Carnival season. Traditional Swedish Princess Cake is typically covered with a layer of marzipan that has been tinted pale green.

I’m thinking the answer is no.

i was a SMART reader for a few years. i sympathize with daddy.

Ask the little green Martian… (No, wait. That’s Dill in a Halloween costume. Drat.)

Do they eat Moon Pies on the Moon? Do they eat Juniper on Jupiter? Um, should we even wonder about what they eat on Uranus?

So here’s a reference to a Slow Loris before Loris Slothrop turns up.

Great. I don’t normally read this comic but it was the first to pop up on ArcaMax. Now I want to know if how the book ends!

They eat Mars Bars on Mars (I thought everyone knew that…)

Our 7th grade teacher read the book to us during class, she made it interesting. at our 50th reunion we all remembered it. Pip, and Miss Havisham, the jilted bride :>

I hope that Mr. O didn’t dislike the book because it was “silly” – he dishes out boatloads of silly while he’s driving Alice to and from school. I love silly, and found myself getting the giggles over the marzipan book. However, on rare occasions I have refused to read a book aloud because it was st*pid (my daughter doesn’t permit use of that word around the kids.

Re: My preceding comment: Please add the closing parenthesis via your mind. I don’t feel like going back and putting in all the italics on a correction. Thanks! ♥

Good grief! Are some of you people telling me that there really is a RL marzipan book? With scads of animals and such?!

I say, Peter, old chap, care to join me down at the CdS Pub for a pint or two?

She should have asked Mr. Owl. He would have answered it in “One! Tuh-HOO! Thu-REE!”