Chicken Soup for the Soul Cartoons for Teachers

By Canfield Jack and Mark Victor Hansen

More than 200 cartoons from syndicated cartoonist John McPherson show our appreciation for, and sometimes our impatience with, one of the most important bedrocks of our nation’s future: our teachers. From elementary school to college, and from piano teachers to sports coaches, this book makes a hilarious and heartwarming gift for our favorite mentors.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chicken Soup for the Soul
• Release date: Oct 30, 2012
• ISBN: 9781453280614

Canfield Jack

Jack Canfield, known as America's #1 Success Coach, is a bestselling author, professional speaker, trainer, and entrepreneur. He holds two Guinness World Record titles and has been inducted into the National Speakers Association’ s Hall of Fame. He is the coauthor of more than two hundred books including, The Success Principles™ and the Chicken Soup for the Soul® series, which has sold more than 500 million copies in 47 languages around the world. In addition, he has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Oprah’ s Super Soul Sunday, the Today Show, Fox & Friends, Montel, and Larry King Live, among others. He currently lives in Santa Barbara, California.

Book preview

Chicken Soup for the Soul®

Cartoons for Teachers

CHICKEN SOUP

FOR THE SOUL®

CARTOONS FOR TEACHERS

Jack Canfield

Mark Victor Hansen

John McPherson,

Creator of Close to Home

Backlist, LLC, a unit of

Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC

Cos Cob, CT

www.chickensoup.com

Other books by John McPherson

Chicken Soup for the Soul® Cartoons for Moms

Close to Home

Dangerously Close to Home

One Step Closer to Home

The Silence of the Lamberts

Close to Home Revisited

Home: The Final Frontier

Close to Home Unplugged

Striking Close to Home

The Close to Home Survival Guide

The Get Well Book

High School Isn’t Pretty

Close to Home Uncut

The Scourge of Vinyl Car Seats

Close to Home Exposed

The Honeymoon Is Over

Introduction

Your days are spent dodging spitballs, fielding homework excuses and battling the class clown for attention. Evenings find you grading homework and getting the sound of ringing bells out of your head. And you wouldn’t have it any other way.

Chances are, you wanted to be a teacher from a very young age. Chances are, another teacher, just like you, ignited that spark in you to become an educator. He or she made it a joy to learn, and encouraged your talents and skills. So the tradition continues, the torch is passed, and it is your turn now. It is up to you to inspire, entertain and enlighten a whole new generation of children. Our hats are off to you. You are heroes to your students.

Within this collection of cartoons, we hope that you will also see yourself as you really are: an entertainer, a cheerleader, a comedian, a guardian and a counselor. May these cartoons make you remember what made you want to be a teacher in the first place. Most importantly, may these cartoons provide you with much-needed comic relief after a long day in the classroom.

And if you’re a student, we hope this book gives you a new perspective on those sometimes wonderful, sometimes horrible thirty hours a