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America's Funny But True History. America's Funny But True History (formally America's Horrible Histories) is one of the many spin-offs of Horrible Histories. The series is written by Elizabeth Levy and explores the history of North America, focusing on the United States in the latter books. The books appear in school and library reading and ...
Horrible Histories is a series of illustrated history books published in the United Kingdom by Scholastic, and part of the Horrible Histories franchise. The books are written by Terry Deary, Peter Hepplewhite, and Neil Tonge, and illustrated by Martin Brown, Mike Phillips, Philip Reeve, and Kate Sheppard. The first titles in the series, The ...
Not so funny. Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln: A Hungarian-Jewish man who was, at various times, a UK Member of Parliament, German World War I spy, Nazi collaborator and self-proclaimed Dalai Lama. Tuskegee Syphilis Study: One of the darkest and most bizarre biological experiments in US history, one which spanned decades. Roman von Ungern-Sternberg
Story of a cowboy's horse. PS 6. The Insect Man. Eleanor Doorly. Robert Gibbings. 1941. The story of children's visit to France to find out about Jean-Henri Fabre, who first understood the ways and habits of insects by long and systematic watching. Introduction by Walter de la Mare. PS 7.
Landmark Books was a children's book series published by Random House from 1950 to 1970, featuring stories of significant people and events in American history written by popular authors at the time. The series expanded in 1953 to include world history as a sub-series called World Landmark Books, and a second sub-series of larger-format books ...
A joke cycleis a collection of jokes about a single target or situation which displays consistent narrative structure and type of humour.[46] Some well-known cycles are elephant jokesusing nonsense humour, dead baby jokesincorporating black humour, and light bulb jokes, which describe all kinds of operational stupidity.
61458359. It's Kind of a Funny Story is a 2006 novel by American author Ned Vizzini. The book was inspired by Vizzini's own brief hospitalization for depression in November 2004. [1] Ned Vizzini later died by suicide [2] on December 19, 2013. The book received recognition as a 2007 Best Book for Young Adults from the American Library Association.
This is a list of classic children's books published no later than 2008 and still available in the English language. [1] [2] [3] Books specifically for children existed by the 17th century. Before that, books were written mainly for adults – although some later became popular with children.