Shirley Hughes is one of the best-loved and most innovative creators of books for young children. She has written and illustrated over fifty books, which have sold more than eleven million copies. Her characters Alfie and Dogger are loved by children and parents all over the world. Bye Bye Birdie is Shirley Hughes' first graphic book for adults. A young man, in his best bow-tie and boater, meets a fashionably dressed - and rather bird-like - young lady. But when he takes her home she undergoes a transformation and our hero's dreams of connubial bliss suddenly turn into the stuff of nightmares. Totally wordless, Bye Bye Birdie showcases Shirley Hughes' brilliant drawing and her extraordinarily vivid imagination.

Bye Bye Birdie * The Telephone Hour * How Lovely to Be a Woman * Put On a Happy Face * A Healthy, Normal American Boy (We Love You, Conrad) * One Boy * Let's Settle Down * Honestly Sincere * Hymn for a Sunday Evening * One Last Kiss * A Lot of Livin' to Do * Kids * A Mother Doesn't Matter Anymore * A Giant Step * Rosie.

National Theatre, Edward Padula presents "Bye Bye Birdie," in association with L. Slade Brown, "Best Musical"--Tony Awards 1960-61, starring Gretchen Wyler, Dick Patterson, Kay Medford and Dick Gautier, with Ned Wertimer, Nancy Tribush, Evelyn Brooks, James Denton, Barbara Doherty, Barry Pearl, book by Michael Stewart, music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Lee Adams, scenery by Robert Randolph, costumes by Miles White, lighting by Peggy Clark, musical director Shepard Coleman, orchestrations by Robert Ginzler, dance arrangements by John Morris, hair styles by Ernest Adler, directed and choreographed by Gower Champion.

Strouse composed some of the most successful shows in Broadway history (Annie, Bye Bye Birdie, Applause, and Golden Boy); wrote the film score for Bonnie and Clyde as well as the theme song for All in the Family; has been sampled by one of today's biggest rap stars (Jay-Z, in the Grammy-winning Hard Knock Life); and his songs have been sung by musical greats from Frank Sinatra to Ray Charles to Barbra Streisand. Timed to coincide with public celebrations of his 80th birthday, this memoir grants an insider's glimpse of Broadway, Hollywood, and beyond. Strouse relates the behind-the-curtain stories of his remarkable achievements, and tells about the people he's worked with along the way, including Butterfly McQueen, Gower Champion, Sammy Davis Jr., Lauren Bacall, Mel Brooks, Clifford Odets, Warren Beatty, Hal Prince and Carol Burnett.--From publisher description.

In a wrecked modern version of a romance novel, acclaimed French writer Virginie Despentes pokes at the simultaneous ecstasy and banality of love in an age of psychiatry and punk. Gloria lives in seething rage, lashing out at everyone—particularly, a string of bewildered boyfriends—at the local bar. But when her latest explosion leaves her out on the street, she unexpectedly runs into famed television personality Eric Muir. Incidentally, he’s also her teenage boyfriend, and the one who started it all. Once upon a time, Gloria and Eric met while institutionalized, and then became a mascot couple for those homeless and high on a noisy mix of drugs, music, and counterculture. Now, twenty years later, Gloria is enamored by youthful love resurrected and determined to immortalize their story by writing a screenplay. Whisked away to Paris, she’s transformed from a provincial loose cannon into an urbane party guest. But navigating life and love isn’t any easier for the middle-aged. Cutting deep to unearth the marriage of institutional violence and heterosexual relationships, Bye Bye Blondie illustrates how young women are continuously dragged down and neglected, and then dangled false offers of fame in lieu of real, redemptive recognition.

Ashley is thrilled that her sister got the lead role in the school play until she finds out that Mary-Kate has to kiss the leading man who just happens to be Ashley's boyfriend.