As a "human being", as the Cheyenne called their own, he won the name Little Big Man. He dressed in skins, feasted on dog, loved four wives and saw his people butchered by the horse soldiers of General Custer, the man he had sworn to kill.As a white man, Crabb hunted buffalo, tangled with Wyatt Earp, cheated Wild Bill Hickok and survived the Battle of Little Bighorn. Part-farcical, part-historical, the picaresque adventures of this witty, wily mythomaniac claimed the Wild West as the stuff of serious literature.

    There were so many trucks making deliveries that it might take an hour for a car to travel a few blocks. People blamed the truck owners and the truck owners blamed the little wooden pushcarts that traveled the city selling everything from flowers to hot dogs. Behind closed doors the truck owners declared war on the pushcart peddlers. Carts were smashed from Chinatown to Chelsea. The peddlers didn’t have money or the mayor on their side, but that didn’t stop them from fighting back. They used pea shooters to blow tacks into the tires of trucks, they outwitted the police, and they marched right up to the grilles of those giant trucks and dared them to drive down their streets. Today, thanks to the ingenuity of the pushcart peddlers, the streets belong to the people—and to the pushcarts.The Pushcart War was first published more than fifty years ago. It has inspired generations of children and been adapted for television, radio, and the stage around the world. It was included on School Library Journal’s list of One Hundred Books That Shaped the Twentieth Century, and its assertion that a committed group of men and women can prevail against a powerful force is as relevant in the twenty-first century as it was in 1964.

    "Infectiously funny . . . a good nonsensical text and illustrations".--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.

    Unfortunately, the party was a thousand miles away. Fortunately, a friend loaned Ned an airplane. Unfortunately, the motor exploded. Fortunately, there was a parachute in the airplane. Unfortunately, there was a hole in the parachute. What else could go wrong as Ned tries to get to the party? Readers will cheer as Ned's luck turns from good to bad to good again, while clever illustrations tell the story of his wacky adventure and narrow escapes.

    200 black-and-white photographs.

    Long out of print, this new edition of Never Tease a Weasel with art by the great New Yorker cartoonist George Booth will surely please a weasel, and everyone else who reads it!

    With his unfailing charm, Durrell tells the story of how he finally fulfilled his childhood dream of founding his own private zoo, the Manor of Les Augres, on the English Channel island of Jersey. With the help of an enduring wife, a selfless staff, and a reluctant bank manager, the zoo grows, and readers are treated to a colorful parade of the zoo’s unusual animal inhabitants.

    Anyway they didn't get me. I attended to varicous schools in Liddypol. And still didn't pass—much to my Aunties supplies. As a member of the most publified Beatles my and (P, G, and R's) records might seem funnier to some of you than this book, but as far as I'm conceived this correction of short writty is the most wonderfoul larf I've ever ready. God help and breed you all.

    Explains the many things that Christmas is, such as vacation from school, catching snowflakes, and a time for miracles.

    Having grown up near Big Sur, this book was particularly funny as Lee Mellon is still in residence there. Brautigan's descriptions of drugs, drinks, frogs & the commas of Ecclesiastes are all done in a straightforward style. A favorite paragraph: "He broke the seal on the bottle, unscrewed the cap & poured a big slug of whiskey into his mouth. He swallowed it down with a hairy gulp. Strange, for as I said before: he was bald." A great read. If there's one thing the world lacks, it's a good supply of well-written, funny-as-heck books. Luckily, aside from A Confederacy Of Dunces, we have this little gem. The characters are drunks, druggies, skanks, prostitutes & nutzoids. The pace is brisk, the imagry vivid. Most of it seemed to be part of my own life, but just where do you find weed that's so potent that 4 people smoking 5 joints stay high for well over 2 hours?If you want to spend a day or night having a good laugh over a great book, pick this one up. You'll laugh out loud. As Martha Stewart says, "it's a good thing".

    You may even learn something. Richard Armour, that madcap-and-gown satirist, goes his merry way from such Puritan authors as Michael Wigglesworth and Cotton Mather to such not-so-Puritan authors as O'Neill, Hemingway, and Faulkner. Sense and nonsense play a wild game of tag, having a field day in a field often approached to solemnly. The author gives his special kind of literate humor by combining word play, understatement, exaggeration, parody, free association, and irony. The survey course in American literature will never be the same.

    The paper, ink, and even the lamination look and feel just like the originals in this trip down memory lane.

    A manic epic, "Reuben, Reuben" is really three books in one, tied together by a 1950s suburban Connecticut setting and hyper-literate cast of characters. A corruptible chicken farmer fearful for the fate of his beloved town, a womanizing poet from Wales (Dylan Thomas in disguise), and a hapless British poet-cum-actor-and-agent all take turns as narrator, revealing different, even conflicting views. But alcoholism, sexism, small-mindedness, and calamity challenge the high spirits of De Vries's well-read suburbanites. Noted as much for his verbal fluidity and wordplay as for his ability to see humor through pain, De Vries will delight both new readers and old in this uproarious modern masterpiece.

    

    

    "Magnificat" portrays the domestic cat in all its preening, self-important glory and "Top Dog" gets to the heart of being a pampered pooch.

    A boy builds larger and larger houses for his pets, then suddenly finds himself with a pet house but no pet.

    Did you ever bring the class hamster home and have it disappear down the mouse hole? Or strike out on the last of the ninth with the bases loaded? Do you remember how it felt the day you came home from school and found out your mother had just thrown away your grasshopper collection when she didn't even know you were collecting grasshoppers?These, and dozens of other miserable situations like them, are here depicted in deceptively simple line drawings with psychologically sensitive captions, in warm and nostalgic terms, turning misery then into warm and eye-moistening laughter now.

    While visiting cannibals on a small South Pacific island, the Vice President of the United States gets into a stew - literally - causing an international incident that only Leonard Wibberley could concoct.A Feast of Freedom is a brilliant spoof of international affairs - an irresistible blend of humor and satire that is as delightful, as timely, and as deliciously cunning as The Mouse That Roared.

    In the first thirty seconds the pilot should go like this, 'Fifty thousand murderous Berbers are headed toward Cairo, and only you, Dick Daring, can stop them.' Dick Daring, that's our hero, in thase case Jackie Cooper, couny agent." As Miller explains in this book, his account of "how to write one television script and make $50,000,000," as he was soon shuttling between coasts and writing dozens fo scripts that he is told are "beautiful" by executives even as they hire other writers to rewrite behind his back. What ends up being shot is a pointless porridge that has no chance of ever making on the schedule. Miller's painful, if droll, experiences might be hard to belive if they hadn't actually happened - and if virtually the same scenes weren't being played out in writers; offices and network suites today.")