Cover of The New Yorker Book of Teacher Cartoons

The New Yorker Book of Teacher Cartoons

School is a mixture of joy, terror, work, excitement, boredom, anxiety, fun, and bedlam day after day, year after year. If this is true for students, it is exponentially true for teachers-those hearty souls who have taken on the education of the youth of the world.

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This wonderful collection of the best and funniest cartoons published over the last eighty years in The New Yorkertakes a wry look into the classroom-at the students, at their blindly devoted but demanding parents, and, especially, at the teachers who negotiate the delicate balance between those forces every day.

With 118 cartoons, this is a perfect gift for teachers and a treasure of laughs for all!

Genre
humor
Setting
2000s
Subject
education
Audience
adult
Length
short · 118 pages

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