Author: Brian P. Cleary
Publisher: First Avenue Editions
Keywords: words, categorical, adjectives, perky, jerky, extra, quirky
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 1580139361
ISBN-13: 9781580139366

One book is never enough to explore the wide range of amazing adjectives! The crazy cats deliver loads of additional examples to illustrate the potent power of adjectives to describe the wonderful world around us--and our incredible imaginations. Brian P. Cleary’s playful verse and Brian Gable’s comical cats turn traditional grammar lessons on end. Each adjective is printed in color for easy identification. Read this book aloud and share the delight of the sense--and nonsense--of words.

Author: Kitty Burns Florey
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: art, diagramming, sentences, lost, history, bernadette, barking, quirky, sister
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-11-05
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0156034433
ISBN-13: 9780156034432

In its heyday, sentence diagramming was wildly popular in grammar schools across the country. Kitty Burns Florey learned the method in sixth grade from Sister Bernadette: "It was a bit like art, a bit like mathematics. It was a picture of language. I was hooked." Now, in this offbeat history, Florey explores the sentence-diagramming phenomenon, including its humble roots at the Brooklyn Polytechnic, its "balloon diagram" predecessor, and what diagrams of famous writers’ sentences reveal about them. Along the way Florey offers up her own commonsense approach to learning and using good grammar

Author: Eric Jones
Publisher: Globe Pequot
Keywords: curiosities, amp, offbeat, stuff, oddities, series, roadside, hampshire, quirky, characters, new
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2006-07-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0762739797
ISBN-13: 9780762739790

Author: William Schemmel
Publisher: Globe Pequot
Keywords: curiosities, offbeat, stuff, series, amp, roadside, quirky, characters, georgia, oddities
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-01-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0762741104
ISBN-13: 9780762741106

This laugh-out-loud giude will introduce readers to a different side of the Peach State. With this guide in hand, they can tour the cities and swamplands, and then hit the road to pick their own Kiwis, chase a greased pig during Climax Swine Time, or welcome the buzzards back to their winter roost.

Authors:Perri Klass, Eileen Costello,
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: worry, doesn, child, helping, kids, understanding, quirky
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2004-08-31
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0345451430
ISBN-13: 9780345451439

From the fourth-grade girl who never gets invited to a birthday party because classmates think she’s “weird” to the geek who is terrific at math but is failing every other subject, quirky children are different from other kids in ways that they–and their parents–have a hard time understanding. They present a host of challenges that standard parenting books fail to address. Now, in Quirky Kids, seasoned pediatricians Perri Klass and Eileen Costello provide the expert guidance that families with quirky children so desperately need.Klass and Costello illuminate the confusing list of ter

Author: Seth Brown
Publisher: Globe Pequot
Keywords: curiosities, amp, offbeat, stuff, oddities, series, roadside, island, quirky, characters, rhode
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-09-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0762743387
ISBN-13: 9780762743384

Authors:Vince Staten, Liz Serrano,
Publisher: Globe Pequot
Keywords: curiosities, offbeat, stuff, series, amp, roadside, quirky, characters, kentucky, oddities
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-11-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0762741058
ISBN-13: 9780762741052

Did you know that it is illegal to sell alcohol in Bourbon County, but drinkers are free to down a few in Christian County? This and much more essential Kentucky know-how awaits within the pages of this humorous guide. Hundreds of stories are accompanied by addresses and phone numbers for the brave, so you yourself can meet the woman who collects pictures of swirling toilet seats, visit the store that sells more Florida souvenirs than any gift shop not in Florida, and race an outhouse on wheels during the Great Outhouse Blowout!