This is a fun and informative book. I bought it for a class on the American Presidency that I will be teaching next year, but my family has been enjoying it now. I put a trivia question up on the whiteboard in our kitchen each day, and we enjoy great discussion about possible answers.

Who knows, if any of us appear on a TV quiz show, it might save the day to know that Richard Nixon ate cottage cheese with catsup, or that Harry Truman considered himself a sissy when he was a child!

This book gives little stories and great knowledge about the presidents. It is really easy to read, but fun. I mean, who really knows that Andrew Jackson married his wife TWICE, and that Thomas Jefferson taught his birds to feed him!!! For anyone who wants to know the little things about who our Commanders in Chief really were, this is a must. Hope you enjoy it! Oh, and be sure to tell your friends just which president had his horses' teeth brushed daily!!

I thought that this book was cool. It combined the short biographies of each president with other fun and interesing facts. This was the first book I bought about the presidents, and now I buy any that I can get my hands on. My two best friends and I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. Plus, I got to bug everyone by asking them questions about the presidents.

I read this book for the first time, eight years ago, and I laughed my back end off! IT IS THE BOMB YO!

Written with a sharp wit and chocked full of true interesting facts, this book is great for inspiring creativity and a sense of fun in anyone, age 4 and up. If you can find a copy, get it.

This book consists of, as the back of the book says, "tricky teasers, verbal vagaries, and mathematical mind manglers." There are also many funny brain vacation jokes. As you can tell from the title, this book has 263 challenging riddles or questions that really make you to think. For ex, one of the questions is: Why didn't Beethoven finish the Unfinished Symphony? The answer is: The Unfinished Symphony was started by Schubert, not Beethoven!! Some of the puns are corny but it's still very enjoyable. It's a good book to read when you want to take a break from work and just laugh. Personally, I liked it a lot and I still take it out sometimes to re-read some of the riddles. I highly recommend it

This most incredibly funny gave me hours of plesure reading its completely nonsenseical sugestions and pointers in the field of alligator wrestling. Not only does this book have absolutely nothing to do with anything, but it is monumentially enjoyable.

"Fudge Ripple Pouchhappy clicked his fingers together again and hopped a little hop for joy. Then he waded out into the ocean. 'Bring me a straw, ' he shouted. 'Bring me a pickle jar. Drive your cars onto the beach. We'll carry the ocean away tonight.'"

I bought this book in the 4th grade from the bookmobile when it stopped at my school. It has remained one of my favorite books, through my college years and beyond.

It is a silly gem of a book, filled with goofy asides and inexpert (but very charming) line drawings by the author. The only negative thing one can say about this book is that it lacks a bit in the political correctness department.

If you happen to run across it in a used book store, pick it up and give it a try. It won't tax your brain. It's a fairly quick read. It'll make you giggle. [That's assuming that you are a giggler. If you are a chuckler or something of that sort, you may also fall victim to this book.]

This small book is a treasure of insults, ranging frm unkind words about Dorothy Parker to downright meanness regarding Warren G. Harding, with splendid stops along the way.
Here are insults the reader will want to read or send to friends, and perhaps to enemies. This is a book to browse through for quite some time after reading it, probably in a single sitting, because it's a fascinating page-turner, not for plot, but for wicked words.

R. I. P.: A Poetic Sequence is a marvelous collection of poetry by Louis Phillips about Washington Irving's famous literary figure of Rip Van Winkle, the man who fell asleep for an age and awoke into a time he could barely comprehend. R.I.P.: A Poetic Sequence is soulful and recommended examination of the human spirit, of belonging, and of the yearning for something more from life. "But what freedom cd I have, / Being asleep all the time? / Ask me what I have learned, / I reply: The gods are no further away / Than the closing of my eyelids."

This is my favorite poetry collection book. It's small enough to take anywhere with you and has some of the best poems ever written. This is a must have for any poetry lover.

I was one of those guys who would always drop off in English class if poetry was the topic. Arcane language and flowery speech just weren't my bag. Too bad none of my English teachers saw fit to introduce me to this book.

The poems in this book come in all lengths, broken down into chapters by subject. They include numerous submissions by the prolific author "anonymous", as well as many other popular writers (and a few not-so-well-known). Many of the entries are somewhat pointed; a few are a little racy - most of these are in the second chapter (about affairs of the heart). All of them are humorous.

My advice: buy this book, and give it to someone who likes poetry. Or better yet, give it to someone who doesn't, and see if they don't laugh out loud at some of Dorothy Parker's writings.

Louis Phillips is an accomplished and seasoned poet who writes his verse with great wit and a keen sense of the human condition. The Time, The Hour, The Solitariness Of The Place is his latest collection showcases a poet who uses words and paper the way an artist uses paint and canvas to evoke a recognition and reflection within the mind's eye of the reader. Cantrip: Sleep lively now/While I mortal weave/About your breathing/Hush now sounds,/Your world displaced/Where now the night/Imprints & now/The wind. Breathe/Yourself thru/This forest of sighs,/Gorgeous the moon/Pranking round hollow,/Now to awake./The spell is broken/& yes you are free.