A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears

Jules Feiffer

HarperCollins Publishers, 1995 - Juvenile Fiction - 180 pages

Prince Roger is sent on a quest, the purpose of which is to turn the carefree young prince into a sober man and worthy monarch. Roger gets everything wrong--except for the meaning of life, and that he gets right.

About the author

Jules Feiffer was born on January 26, 1929. While working as a cartoonist, his work appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Playboy, The Nation, and The New York Times. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his editorial cartooning in The Village Voice in 1986. His other awards include a George Polk Award for his cartoons; an Obie Award for the play Little Murders; an Oscar for the anti-military short subject animation, Munro; and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Writers Guild of America and the National Cartoonist Society. He is currently focusing on writing and illustrating books for children and young adults including The Man in the Ceiling, A Room with a Zoo and Bark, George! He has been a professor at the Yale School of Drama, Northwestern University, Dartmouth, and Stony Brook Southampton College. Feiffer has been honored with major retrospectives at the New York Historical Society, the Library of Congress and The School of Visual Arts.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears; Michael di Capua Bks
• Author: Jules Feiffer
• Illustrated by: Jules Feiffer
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995
• ISBN: 0062050990, 9780062050991
• Length: 180 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Friendship