Michael Fry

Michael Fry is an American artist, cartoonist, screenwriter, writer, and entrepreneur in online media for several decades. He is perhaps best well known for his comic strips Pearls Before Swine (turned into a 2011 t.v. series), as well as Over the Hedge and Committed. He is the illustrator and the author of The Odd Squad, a series of illustrated novels designed to be read by middle school aged readers.

The best place to start is the Over The Hedge series, the earliest of Michael Fry's multi-book series: it opens with Over The Hedge (1996) and runs to 4 books across 1996–2006, ending with Stuffed Animals (2006). Michael Fry's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Michael Fry has 13 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1996 and 2021. 12 of them belong to 4 named series — the largest being the Over The Hedge series with 4 books — and 1 is a standalone title, collection or anthology.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Michael Fry's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Over The Hedge (1996–2006, 4 books), The Odd Squad (2013–2014, 3 books) and Naughty List (2015–2018, 2 books), plus 1 more.

This guide splits Michael Fry's 13 books into 4 named series and 1 title that stands alone or appear only in collections: Over The Hedge (4 books, 1996–2006); How to be a Supervillian (3 books, 2017–2019); The Odd Squad (3 books, 2013–2014); Naughty List (2 books, 2015–2018).