A special 20th anniversary hardcover Baby Blues retrospective, this is the colossal collection that Baby Blues’s 55 million-plus fans have been clamoring for. A special 20th anniversary hardcover Baby Blues retrospective, this is the colossal collection that Baby Blues’s 55 million-plus fans have been clamoring for. Baby Blues is simply our lives on paper. At times it seems more like a home video than a comic strip." Two Plus One Is Enough is another collection of this stupendously popular comic strip, which has millions of fans.

It's a little unfair to rate a "greatest hits" collection of any kind against the normal volumes. By the very nature of the collection it's going to win out. But even then this summation of the first 20 years of Baby Blues is fantastic. Parents will relate to so many of the scenarios and laugh out loud throughout. Baby Wren is raising the chaos level in the MacPherson household to a new high as Zoe and Hammie compete as only siblings can. Parents Darryl and Wanda somehow keep up their good humor despite a tight budget, their mischievous but adorable older children, and a wailing infant. Precocious Zoe's learning to read-and to point out the inconsistencies in children's books. (For example, after Zoe reads about a bear, Wanda corrects her. "That word is dog, not bear." Zoe, however, astutely observes that the picture looks like a dog: "So which is spelled right? The word or the picture?" Zoe asks.) And Hammie must make sure his baby sister isn't gaining on him, in age or in weight.