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62) The silly book
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
A collection of silliness, both verbal and visual.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
viii, 159 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.
Description
The author presents a collection of three animal-themed essays. In The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck, a group of complete strangers bitterly discuss the order of things within the animal kingdom. In Hello Kitty, a miserable alcoholic cat attends AA. In The Squirrel and the Chipmunk, two lovers are torn apart by their quarreling families.
Author
Pub. Date
20090622
Description
This collection of humorous short stories tells the tale of a pond in the foothills of the Olympic Mountains. Formed in the last ice age, the mountain pond has served as a magnet to animals and humans ever since. Pat Neal moved into an abandoned homestead near the pond that was watched over by a Great Blue Heron named Bill. Neal made friends with Bill. When the rest of the birds and animals saw Bill trusting a human, they began to trust him as well,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"From the iconic creator of the "Cathy" comic strip comes a collection of funny, warm, and wise essays in the style of Nora Ephron and Erma Bombeck, centered around the particular challenge of caring for aging parents and growing children, all while trying not to lose oneself in the process. As the creator of the "Cathy" comic strip, Cathy Guisewite found her way into the hearts of readers over 40 years ago, and has been there ever since. Her deeply...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"What happened when the owl lost his voice? He didn't give a hoot! LOL! ROFL! There's nothing more fun than telling laugh-out-loud jokes to your friends and family! Joke-telling can bring a smile to anyone's face and can provide hours of entertainment. Get ready to share these hilarious tear-jerking laugh-out-loud jokes with your friends!" --
Author
Description
A.J. explores the big issues of our time--happiness, dating, morality, marriage--by immersing himself in eye-opening situations. In his role as human guinea pig, Jacobs fearlessly takes on a series of life-altering challenges that provides readers with equal parts insight and humor. (And drives his patient wife, Julie, to the brink of insanity.) Among the many adventures: He outsources his life to a team of people in Bangalore, India. He spends a...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
x, 226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"A witty book about wit that steers an elegant path between waggishness and wisdom."--Stephen Fry. In this whimsical book, James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns demonstrate the essence of creativity. Geary reasons that wit is both visual and verbal, physical and intellectual: there's the serendipitous wit of scientists, the crafty wit of inventors, the optical wit of artists, and the metaphysical wit...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
x, 230 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 24 cm.
Description
From the host of television's comedy-punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other 23 hours of your day. This book contains all of the opinions that Stephen doesn't have time to shoehorn into his nightly broadcast, his most deeply held knee-jerk beliefs on The American Family, Race, Religion, Sex, Sports, and many more topics, conveniently arranged in chapter form. Stephen addresses why Hollywood is destroying America by inches,...
73) Puppy riddles
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
A collection of forty-two riddles about puppies.
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