The author focuses on the importance of humorous books for encouraging middle and high school students to read. She notes that most children and teens think that reading for fun is work and that they should be able to choose books they enjoy. According to the author, humorous books are ...
Alex Perryused to teach middle schoolers in Houston, but now she writes books for kids everywhere. When she was six, she babysat a potbellied piglet, and she’s been obsessed with his cuteness ever since. She just had to get the messy little guy into a book, and now she has. She l...
Any Books on Paranoia I asked the librarian if they had any books on paranoia She whispered "They're behind you." SNL Humor John Mulaney Stand-Up Monologue - SNL Host John Mulaney discusses his time as a Saturday Night Live writer and shares how he's gotten grumpier as he's gotten olde...
Think Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books or Douglas Adams’The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, only set in an alternate 19th-century London where there’s no British empire and the British don’t drink tea. (Joreth read the first draft and described it this way: “Imagine if Terry Pra...
talents. When she starts school, Matilda encounters the giant, nasty headmistress named Miss Trunchbull. The headmistress terrorizes the entire school until Matilda discovers special powers within herself. This is my favorite of Roald Dahl’s books because of the charming characters and wonderful story...
But there is no need to invest in joke books, watch humorous You-Tube videos, or teach kindergarten! You’ll receive a healthy dose of cheer in these ways, too:Possibility #1: Spend time with positive people.Research indicates up to 80% of our laughter is not generated by funny movies ...
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Unlike the children’s books for adults by Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortés (likeGo the F**k to SleepandYou Have to F***ing Eat), these are completely Safe for Work, or Safe for a Baby. The text is clean enough to eat off of, but barbed enough that you might not want to. ...
We love the RDF—especially when the Give and Take Area opens in Spring. We de-accession our museum-quality home goods, survey the merch brought by fellow residents, and catch up with our neighbors while enjoying the sunshine and (mostly) fresh air. We browse for books at the Book Exchang...
post. But that tends to be true of a lot of comic writing. I thoroughly enjoy S. J. Perelman, for example, whenever I sit down and read one of his pieces.One— not two, and never three. And I’d put the same warning label on these two books: “To Be Consumed in Small ...