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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 ...
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.
Der Struwwelpeter ("shock-headed Peter") [1] is an 1845 German children's book written and illustrated by Heinrich Hoffmann. It comprises ten illustrated and rhymed stories, mostly about children. Each cautionary tale has a clear moral lesson that demonstrates the disastrous consequences of misbehavior in an exaggerated way. [2]
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 ...
A Century of Laughter. 100 Years Laughing Matters 1000x667 En. For 100 years, Reader’s Digest has proudly re-printed the funniest and corniest gags, anecdotes, and pithy one-liners in the pages ...
Horribly Huge Press-Out-and-Build Book: Terry Deary Horribly Hilarious Joke Book: Who's Horrible in History: The Horrible History of Britain and Ireland: 2010 Frightfully Funny Quiz Book: Deadly Days in History: 2013 The Beastly Best Bits: The Big Fat Christmas Book: 2014 Top 50 Kings & Queens: 2015 Top 50 Villains: 2016 This is a Horrible Book ...
The story first appeared in Dostoevsky's self-published monthly journal A Writer's Diary in 1877. According to literary theorist and Dostoevsky scholar Mikhail Bakhtin , The Dream of a Ridiculous Man is a modern manifestation of the ancient literary genre Menippean satire , and touches on almost all the themes characteristic of Dostoevsky's ...
1981–1991. Publication place. United States. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a series of three collections of short horror stories for children, written by Alvin Schwartz and originally illustrated by Stephen Gammell. In 2011, HarperCollins published editions featuring new art by Brett Helquist, causing mass controversy among fans of ...