This is to let you know I just received two official MITM books from Amazon. "My Class Project" is the best of these by far. It has lots of unique, rare quality pictures that don't appear elsewhere (not even on our site), very funny texts, great graphic design on glossy paper. For instance, the hilarious description of 'The Dewey' is a gem! See attachment.
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"101 Ways To Get Away With Anything" is just text, not always funny at that, no pictures or graphics, and poor paper quality.
New copies of these are still available for just a few bucks. If they don't ship them abroad (because of sellers and resellers), you can try Amazon.co.uk (Britain) or Amazon.de (German), because these use the same registration details provided you use an internationally valid credit card.
The problem I have with the episode-based readers, such as "Water Park" and "Krelboyne Picnic" is that they are comic strip retellings with low-grade screencaps, and that the language is extremely simplified to starter level (300 headwords). They still make nice souvenirs though!
P.S. Just an example of how language simplification can spoil the effect of comical dialogues, from Krelboyne Picnic:
Original screenplay:
Dorene: So I understand that Malcolm has quite the vocabulary.
Lois: Yeah, he's just yap, yap, yap, yap all day long.
Dorene: Well, that's not the vocabulary I meant. It seems he's taught several of the children the 'R' word.
Lois: The 'R' word?
Dorene: It's just something he picked up off the street, certainly not at home.
Lois: Yeah, well, 'R' you, lady.
Book version:
Dorene: Well, Malcolm's teaching his friends lots of new words at school.
Lois: Yeah, he loves talking.
Dorene: I don't mean that. He's teaching them bad words. Where does he learn them?
Rich