Onomatopoeic Titles
Top 10 Onomatopoeic Titles
: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Horton Hears a Who!, Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?, Chattering Courtesans and Other Sardonic Sketches, Boom! Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today, Boo Hiss, The Dog Said Bow-Wow, Pop!: The Invention of Bubble Gum, Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America, Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!
Author | Ian Fleming |
ISBN | 0375832831 |
Ian Fleming, best known for his James Bond novels, wrote only one children’s book—and it is a classic! Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is the name of the flying, floating, driving-by-itself automobile that takes the Pott family on a riotous series of adventures as they try to capture a notorious gang of...
Author | Dr. Seuss |
ISBN | 0679800034 |
In the fifties, my Mom was head librarian for our small-town library (politically, we were termed a Police Village, whatever that meant).
So we kids got our literacy skills off and running when she used to catalogue books in our kitchen.
Especially since City View was in the middle...
Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?
Author | Dr. Seuss |
ISBN | 0007169914 |
Moo moo! Hoo hoo! Cock-a-doodle-doo! Oh, the wonderful sounds Mr. Brown can do. Now see if you can do them too! This fabulous book is ideal for teaching young children all about noises!
This delightful book forms part of the second stage in HarperCollins’ major Dr. Seuss rebrand programme....
Chattering Courtesans and Other Sardonic Sketches
Author | Lucian of Samosata |
ISBN | 0140447024 |
A Greek-educated Syrian, Lucian wrote witty pieces that demonstrate a profound skepticism for religion and philosophy and encourage honest living and good sense. “Chattering Courtesans” is a series of short dialogues in which the amusing gossip of “kept women” gives rise to a discussion...
Boom! Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today
Author | Tom Brokaw |
ISBN | 1400064570 |
In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in Boom!, one of America’s premier journalists gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in America as he brings...
Author | Rene Gutteridge |
ISBN | 1400071437 |
When a soccer field complex springs to life seemingly overnight in the sleepy community of Skary, Indiana, and the local coffee shop begins offering computer access along with its suddenly overpriced beverages, goosebumps start popping up all over town. Has soccer mom Katelyn Downey hatched a diabolic...
Everything old is new again
Great literature has never been this much fun before. The reigning master of short fiction reinvents science fiction and fantasy in a dazzling new collection unlike anything you’ve ever read. Time-traveling dinosaurs wreak havoc on a placid Vermont town. An...
Pop!: The Invention of Bubble Gum
Author | Meghan Mccarthy |
ISBN | 1416979700 |
Gum. It's been around for centuries; from the ancient Greeks to the American Indians, everyone's chewed it. But the best kind of gum; bubble gum! wasn't invented until 1928, when an enterprising young accountant at Fleer Gum and Candy used his spare time to experiment with different recipes. Bubble-blowing...
Author | Stephen G. Bloom |
ISBN | 0156013363 |
In 1987, a group of Lubavitchers, one of the most orthodox and zealous of the Jewish sects, opened a kosher slaughterhouse just outside tiny Postville, Iowa (pop. 1,465). When the business became a worldwide success, Postville found itself both revived and divided. The town's initial welcome of the...
Author | Candace Fleming |
ISBN | 1416909680 |
Tippy, tippy, tippy, Pat!
That's the sound three hungry bunnies make when the sun goes down and the moon comes up and Mr. McGreely's garden smells yum, yum, yummy. While's he's dreaming of his mouth-watering carrots, the bunnies are diving over fences and swimming trenches to get the veggies...
12 Things to Do Before You Crash and Burn
It’s Wes Anderson meets Holden Caufield in this wry and funny novel about a boy who is sent to live with his uncle when his father (a bestselling self-help author) dies.
James “Hercules” Martino has until the end of the summer (a.k.a. two weeks) to accomplish the twelve tasks given to him...
Author | Amulya Malladi |
ISBN | 0345483154 |
Malladi's fourth novel transports readers on a cinematic journey through late-twentieth-century India as seen through the eyes of the inhabitants of Tella Meda, a religious community on the Bay of Bengal. Kokila comes to the ashram in 1961 as an 11-year-old orphan. She later renounces her arranged...
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
Author | Doreen Cronin |
ISBN | 0689832133 |
Farmer Brown has a problem.
His cows like to type.
All day long he hears
Click, clack, MOO.
Click, clack, MOO.
Clickety, clack, MOO.
But Farmer Brown's problems REALLY begin when his cows start leaving him notes....
Doreen Cronin's understated...
Author | Maryrose Wood |
ISBN | 0061791059 |
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place are no ordinary children, Miss Penelope Lumley is no ordinary governess, and mysteries abound in this first volume in a new series for ages 9+.
Found running wild in the forest of Ashton Place, the Incorrigibles are no ordinary children: Alexander,...
Author | Truddi Chase |
ISBN | 0515103292 |
Truddi Chase began therapy to discover why she suffered from blackouts. What surfaced was terrifying: she was inhabited by 'the Troops'-92 individual personalities. This groundbreaking true story is made all the more extraordinary in that it was written by the Troops themselves. What they reveal...
Author | Doreen Cronin |
ISBN | 0743490096 |
Farmer Brown is going on holiday and so he asks his brother, Bob, to take care of the animals. 'But keep an eye on Duck. He's trouble.' Bob follows the instructions in Farmer Brown's notes exactly to the letter. He orders pizza with anchovies for the hens, bathes the pigs with bubble bath, and lets the cows...
Author | John Archambault |
ISBN | 0399235876 |
From the co-author of the bestselling Chicka Chicka Boom Boom comes this adorable counting adventure for children of all ages! Suzanne Tanner Chitwood's colorful collage artwork features mischievous mice dancing through the story. Readers can count down the Congo Line and tally up the Tangoing,...
Author | Jane Heller |
ISBN | 0312971362 |
Having a sister means always having to say you're sorry.
What can make sisters stop talking to each other for years? If it's the Peltz sisters, just about anything can touch off an estrangement! In fact, the latest spat between Deborah, a soap opera writer in New York, and Sharon, a wedding planner...
Author | Jeanine Cummins |
ISBN | 0451210530 |
True crime is a somewhat seedy literary genre. At the bookstore, it is usually tucked away in a far corner, in the same way an old video store hid the adult fare behind strings of beads. It is hard to explain away a fascination with true crime, because it’s typically a deep wallow in the worst kind of depravity...
Author | S.E. Hinton |
ISBN | 0440975344 |
Rusty-James is the toughest guy in the group of high-school kids who hang out and shoot pool down at Benny's, and he enjoys keeping up his reputation. What he wants most of all is to be just like his older brother, the Motorcycle Boy. He wants to stay calm and laughing when things get dangerous, to be the toughest...
A bomb set in one of New York's busiest places is discovered before it explodes. But relief turns to terror when the police realize it is just a warning of greater devastation to come. The city calls on Detective Michael Bennett, pulling him away from a seaside vacation with his ten adopted children and...
Author | Mara Bergman |
ISBN | 0060777540 |
This book is a great read aloud! My story time audience got up and gathered around the book to find out what happens when three children are stalked by a big mean alligator who comes "creeping...creeping...creeping up the stairs." The kids gathered around the book in order to point out all the wonderful...
Author | Jim DeRogatis |
ISBN | 0767905091 |
Let it Blurt is the raucous and righteous biography of Lester Bangs (1949-82)–the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock criticism. No writer on rock ‘n’ roll ever lived harder or wrote better–more passionately, more compellingly, more penetratingly. He lived the...
The Bride of Anguished English: A Bonanza of Bloopers, Blunders, Botches, and Boo-Boos
Author | Richard Lederer |
ISBN | 0312300387 |
Although Richard Lederer's The Bride of Anguished English: A Bonanza of Bloopers, Blunders, Botches and Boo-Boos is once again and delightfully full full full of a plethora of often laugh out loud funny and diverting English language gaffes, it must also be pointed out that the massive litany of them...