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124 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
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Over 300 side-splitting jokes based on the New York Times best-selling series. If you want to know exactly why Milton Hershey's wife married him, look no further. (Because she wanted lots of Hershey's Kisses!) This hilarious and original collection of jokes featuring all the subjects of the ever-popular Who Was? series will keep kids laughing right through history class!
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Peanuts volume 6
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86 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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English
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The whole gang is back in this sixth volume, featuring brand-new original stories from a variety of writers and artists, as well as classic strips from Charles M. Schulz.
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English
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"Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today, says a character in Sigrid Nunez's ninth novel. The Vulnerables offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history and considers how our present reality affects the way a person looks back on her past. Humor, to be sure, is a priceless refuge. Equally vital is connection with others,...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"There's a new horse at the farm, and he's unlike any of the others. That's because he's a zebra! Zebra knows a lot of jokes ... and he knows there's a big, bright world beyond the farm. He might just lead Interrupting Cow to her next big adventure!"--Page 2 of cover
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xv, 311 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Calvin Trillin can write just about anything--and has. He covered the Civil Rights movement in the South for Time, chronicled stories from small towns and cities for The New Yorker, and wrote comic poetry for The Nation. He has been called "perhaps the finest reporter in America" (The Miami Herald), "our funniest food writer" (The New Yorker), and "one of the most brilliant humorists of our time" (Charleston Post and Courier). But one of his favorite...
7) Rad riddles
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 25 cm.
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English
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This title gives readers 27 brain-teasing riddles that will make them think. Rad Riddles is complete with a glossary, index, and bright and fun imagery.
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333 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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The Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together in one volume, with a new preface, two bestsellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies, by an "important humorist in the classic tradition" (The New York Times Book Review) who is "the natural successor to Dorothy Parker" (British Vogue). In "elegant, finely honed prose" (The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life?its fads, trends, crazes, morals, and fashions....
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72 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"The classic nursery rhymes we know and love--upside-down, backward, in gibberish, and fresh out of bounds--as only Jon Scieszka could stage them. Mother knows best, but sometimes a little nonsense wins the day. Inspired by Dadaism's rejection of reason and rational thinking, and in cahoots with Blanche Fisher Wright's The Real Mother Goose, this anthology of absurdity unravels the fabric of classic nursery rhymes and stitches them back together (or...
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