Most Popular Books by Michael Rex

* "In Rex''s big-hearted comic . . . Fred''s gentleness proves healing in this humorous volume about the power of kindness." —Publishers Weekly on Your Pal Fred Even a peacemaking robot has his limits! In this funny and exciting graphic novel by #1 New York Times bestselling creator Michael Rex, Fred travels all over the barren land to spread his message of compassion, but then a mysterious encounter makes him short-circuit and change his mind about being kind. Can his glitch of meanness be fixed, or is the world''s nicest robot gone forever? Everyone knows about Fred and his mission to make the world a kinder place. In fact, the feel-good robot has never met a person he couldn''t convince to play nice . . . until now. When Fred discovers the Tomorrow Sphere, a secret community that has survived the apocalypse in luxury—blankets! Medicine! Unlimited ice cream!—he''s delighted that people in need can soon be helped. But despite all his pleading, the Tomorrow Sphere leader absolutely, definitely, and totally refuses to share. This ultimate act of selfishness shocks Fred and causes him to glitch out and turn mean. If they won''t share, he''ll have to make them! With war looming and his friends in despair, it''s up to friend to fix his nasty glitch . . . or ruin all the goodness he''s created in the world.

WHEN THE ANSWER IS NO is a book that primarily focuses on when God''s response to our prayer request is simply no! It is written from the first-hand perspective of a grieving widower Mickey, working his way through his journey of grief both prior to and after the death of his wife Mary. He, along with his family and literally thousands of people prayed for Mary to be healed from duodenal cancer, but it was not to be! WHEN THE ANSWER IS NO is a book about hope when we experience those "when the rubber hits the road" moments or seasons in life. That we can and should be rejoicing and proclaiming God''s sovereignty in those moments or seasons as often or even more so than when on the mountaintop. Even in the moment of losing a loved one to death! Even though through Christ we are capable of rejoicing regardless of the circumstance; this does not remove the pain that we endure especially when we lose a loved one to death. It is okay to grieve! It is suggested that grieving is necessary for God to heal and restore you for the plans that He has prepared for you. It is the hope and prayer that whoever is inspired by the Holy Spirit to read this book will receive a fresh breath of life from our Creator! To fulfill the desires of your heart that he has planned for you. Remember, there is life after the death of a loved one and that more abundantly because of our victory in Jesus, even WHEN THE ANSWER IS NO!!!

Illustrations and one-word sentences portray a group of firefighters as they respond to a call and save a store from being destroyed.

A girl wonders if her adventure with the Tooth Fairy was real or only a dream.

Go on an underground adventure with the mysterious tunneler in this delightful Level 1 Ready-to-Read from bestselling author-illustrator Michael Rex! The tunneler tunnels in the tunnel. But why? And where is he going? Find out in this fun story with a surprise ending!

The creator of Goodnight Goon and The Runaway Mummy pulls from his mad-scientist brain a kid so attracted to slime, muck, dirt, and yuck he could only be called Icky Ricky.

Icky Ricky has a lot of explaining to do--why he cleaned his house with a leaf blower, why he''s storing money in his armpit, and why he let a stuffed dead raccoon drive his go-cart.

After several failed attempts, Bunny finally gets to paint something.

This is my end of year project. Archetypes In Flux is my journey/portfolio of my first year at London Metropolitan University.

A ''Scribe'' series notebook containing pages of verse written by Harry Michael Rex. Some poems are dated 1943 and 1944 and first page includes personal information including next of kin and military rank of the author. Some leaves has been torn out at center.

Uh-oh! Everyone''s favorite messy misfit, Icky Ricky, is in trouble again! Why? Well, you see... Fish are swimming in his backpack; He''s wearing a disguise made out of trash; He plays soccer with a snake in his pocket. Will the referee ever be the sam

An alien visits a house on Earth, where he meets a young boy and shares drawings with him.

A geometrically similar family of three supercavitating hydrofoils was tested in a variable pressure water tunnel. The half-span foils were of elliptical planform; the ratio of foil half-span to tunnel height was 1/4 for the small foil, 1/2 for the medium foil, and 3/4 for the largest foil. The tunnel was of square cross section. Lift, drag, moment, tunnel speed, ambient pressure, and cavity pressure were measured for attack angles from 8 to 21 degrees and a variety of ambient pressure settings; cavity length measurements were obtained from photographs. For the small and medium foils, it was sufficient to correct only for the effect on downwash of the images of the trailing vortices. The large foil data, however, required further correction; upon application of the same corrections which were applied to the data for the two smaller foils, the force and moment data for the large foil plotted slightly lower than did the data for the two smaller foils, while the cavity length data for the large foil indicated cavity lengths significantly larger than for either of the theoretical predictions or the cavity length data for the two smaller foils.

Many animals are able to scale smooth surfaces using adhesive structures on their feet. These organs are either soft pads with a relatively smooth surface or dense arrays of microscopic adhesive hairs with both designs having independently evolved in diverse taxa of arthropods and vertebrates. Biological adhesive pads out-perform conventional adhesives in many respects, making them important models for biomimetics. Hairy pads have attracted particular attention, because it has become feasible to fabricate similar synthetic microstructures. Nevertheless, the detailed performance and functional properties have not been characterised for any natural fibrillar adhesive system, and many fundamental aspects are still not understood. The aim of this thesis was therefore to investigate the fibrillar adhesive system of leaf beetles as a model. To investigate the functional implications of hairy pad design, the attachment performance between hairy pads of the leaf beetle Gastrophysa viridula and smooth pads of stick insects (Carausius morosus) was compared. Adhesive and frictional stresses were found to be similar in smooth and hairy pads, inconsistent with contact splitting theory, which predicts higher adhesive stresses for fibrillar adhesives. Hairy pads showed a greater direction-dependence of friction forces than smooth pads, confirming the importance of the asymmetric design of individual setae for effortless detachment. Experiments with contaminating particles also showed that hairy pads removed contamination more rapidly and efficiently than smooth pads. Self-cleaning ability had not been previously documented for adhesive organs of insects. To investigate to what extent the hairy system is able to compensate for surface roughness, whole-body attachment forces were measured for varying roughness levels. Attachment was reduced for all length scales of surface roughness, but in particular for asperity sizes smaller than the diameter of individual seta tips. Leaf beetles possess adhesive pads on three tarsal segments, which vary in setal morphology. However, the functional implications of this variation are unknown. The mechanical and adhesive properties of individual pads were therefore tested and their use during climbing observed. Proximal pads were shown to be stiffer than distal pads, conferring stability during pushing. In contrast, the softer distal pads allowed better attachment to rough surfaces. Hence the morphological variation is explained by an effective division of labour between the pads. To investigate an extreme example of pushing in a hairy system, pad use was studied during jumping in flea beetles. The pushing forces needed during take-off were exclusively produced by the proximal pads, again confirming the division of labour. To characterise the effects of different hair morphologies and to understand how individual setae contribute to array and whole-animal performance, single hair forces were measured using a glass capillary cantilever. Male-specific discoidal hairs were shown to be both stiffer and more adhesive than pointed and spatula-tipped setae, likely affecting overall pad stability and attachment. This thesis has shown that hairy pads are similar to smooth pads in the magnitude of adhesive stress supported yet outperform them in detachability and self-cleaning. It was also demonstrated that there are considerable differences in design and performance even within setal arrays of the same insect, indicating the limitations of general models of fibrillar adhesion and underlining the importance of specialised adaptations.