Tomfoolery: Trickery and Foolery with Words

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Lippincott, 1973 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 127 pages
Entertain friends with these riddles, wisecracks, and practical jokes.

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Contents

TRICKERY AND FOOLERY
11
WHAT IS BLACK AND WHITE
45
HAVE YOU THE AUDACITY
55
Copyright

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Tomfoolery: Trickery and Foolery with Words
Alvin Schwartz
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About the author (1973)

Alvin Schwartz was born April 25, 1927.Schwartz began his career as a journalist, but, after the publication of his bestselling book A Twister of Twists, a Tangler of Tongues, he devoted himself to becoming a collector and arranger of folk wisdom, rhyme, and silliness. Schwartz is known for a body of work of more than two dozen books of folklore for young readers that explore everything from wordplay and humor to tales and legends of all kinds. Schwatz is best known for the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series, which featured gruesome, nightmarish illustrations by Stephen Gammell. The series was America's most frequently challenged book (or book series) for library inclusion of 1990-1999. Alvin Schwartz died in Princeton, New Jersey on March 14, 1992. Rounds, who was born in 1906 in a sod house near Wall, South Dakota, and moved to Montana one year later in a covered wagon. He wrote dozens of tall tales and realistic books about rural America, especially North Carolina, where he lived, and Montana, where he was brought up. Rounds first book, Ol' Paul, the Mighty Logger, was published in 1936 by Holiday. He won the AAUW Award in 1983 for Wild Appaloosa. The AAUW Award was created in 1953 to honor North Carolinan children's authors.Rounds died in Pinehurst, NC, September 27, 2002, after a long illness. He was 96.

Bibliographic information

TitleTomfoolery: Trickery and Foolery with Words
AuthorAlvin Schwartz
Illustrated byGlen Rounds
Editionillustrated
PublisherLippincott, 1973
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedSep 1, 2009
ISBN0397314671, 9780397314676
Length127 pages
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Juvenile Nonfiction / Humor / General
Juvenile Nonfiction / Humor / Jokes & Riddles
  
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