Author: Russell Ash
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407050818
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
What's your name? Is it Chloe? Jessica? Jack, Sam? Is it Emily? Rebecca? Matthew, Dan? ...Or is it Fart Bear? Noah Zark? Piggy Banks? Be grateful for your ordinary name - this funny, fascinating book is full of the silliest, the strangest, the weirdest and the wackiest names from around the world (and some of them are quite rude too)!
Big Pants, Burpy and Bumface
Author: Russell Ash
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407050818
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
What's your name? Is it Chloe? Jessica? Jack, Sam? Is it Emily? Rebecca? Matthew, Dan? ...Or is it Fart Bear? Noah Zark? Piggy Banks? Be grateful for your ordinary name - this funny, fascinating book is full of the silliest, the strangest, the weirdest and the wackiest names from around the world (and some of them are quite rude too)!
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407050818
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
What's your name? Is it Chloe? Jessica? Jack, Sam? Is it Emily? Rebecca? Matthew, Dan? ...Or is it Fart Bear? Noah Zark? Piggy Banks? Be grateful for your ordinary name - this funny, fascinating book is full of the silliest, the strangest, the weirdest and the wackiest names from around the world (and some of them are quite rude too)!
Boring, Botty and Spong
Author: Russell Ash
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409097390
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Have you ever been to a place called Boring? Met Mr Botty? Used a piece of Spong equipment? These are just three of the real-life places, people and things from around the world that feature in best-selling non-fiction author Russell Ash's fabulous new book. Jam-packed full with lists of names plus fascinating facts, stories and anecdotes, Boring, Botty and Spong will keep you entertained for hours on end! You'll find names to make you wonder, think and certainly laugh out loud.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409097390
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Have you ever been to a place called Boring? Met Mr Botty? Used a piece of Spong equipment? These are just three of the real-life places, people and things from around the world that feature in best-selling non-fiction author Russell Ash's fabulous new book. Jam-packed full with lists of names plus fascinating facts, stories and anecdotes, Boring, Botty and Spong will keep you entertained for hours on end! You'll find names to make you wonder, think and certainly laugh out loud.
The Silly Book of Side-Splitting Stuff
Author: Andy Seed
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408867400
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
This laugh-out-loud book is bursting with lists, facts, jokes and funny true stories all about silly people, silly animals, silly inventions, silly names and much more. Discover The Great Stink, the man who ate a bike, a girl really called Lorna Mower and a sofa that can do 101mph. Find out about famous pranks, crazy festivals, nutty cats, gross foods, epic sports fails, ludicrously silly words and really rubbish predictions. There are even lots of great silly things to do. Unmissable!
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408867400
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
This laugh-out-loud book is bursting with lists, facts, jokes and funny true stories all about silly people, silly animals, silly inventions, silly names and much more. Discover The Great Stink, the man who ate a bike, a girl really called Lorna Mower and a sofa that can do 101mph. Find out about famous pranks, crazy festivals, nutty cats, gross foods, epic sports fails, ludicrously silly words and really rubbish predictions. There are even lots of great silly things to do. Unmissable!
Frou-Frou, Frisby & Brick
Author: Russell Ash
Publisher: Headline
ISBN: 1472221958
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Frou-Frou Mallett Extravaganza Tomkyns-Grafton Maniac Keene Reckless Baker If there's one thing guaranteed to make a child shrink into their seat during registration - it's a stupid name. Unfortunately for kids across the world, parents keeping making crimes against nomenclature. Fortunately for us, Russell Ash keeps collecting them. The perfect gift book for expectant parents, FROU-FROU, FRISBY & BRICK is a helpful guide to the sorts of names, or name combinations, to avoid at all costs.
Publisher: Headline
ISBN: 1472221958
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Frou-Frou Mallett Extravaganza Tomkyns-Grafton Maniac Keene Reckless Baker If there's one thing guaranteed to make a child shrink into their seat during registration - it's a stupid name. Unfortunately for kids across the world, parents keeping making crimes against nomenclature. Fortunately for us, Russell Ash keeps collecting them. The perfect gift book for expectant parents, FROU-FROU, FRISBY & BRICK is a helpful guide to the sorts of names, or name combinations, to avoid at all costs.
Great Wonders of the World
Author: Russell Ash
Publisher: Dk Pub
ISBN: 9780756619367
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Describes the Seven Wonders of the World, providing background and related information, and comparing them to such modern wonders as the Channel Tunnel, Hoover Dam, Versailles, and the bullet train. Reprint.
Publisher: Dk Pub
ISBN: 9780756619367
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Describes the Seven Wonders of the World, providing background and related information, and comparing them to such modern wonders as the Channel Tunnel, Hoover Dam, Versailles, and the bullet train. Reprint.
Incredible Comparisons
Author: Russell Ash
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN: 9780789410092
Category : Big books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Packed with visual comparisons of hundreds of objects from the world around us, The Incredible Book of Comparisons is a book that children of all ages will love. This new book is ingeniously cross-referenced, offering tangible evidence of sizes, heights, speeds, and numbers. Gatefold pages reveal dramatic large-scale artworks that let the young reader appreciate comparisons at a glance. Full color.
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN: 9780789410092
Category : Big books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Packed with visual comparisons of hundreds of objects from the world around us, The Incredible Book of Comparisons is a book that children of all ages will love. This new book is ingeniously cross-referenced, offering tangible evidence of sizes, heights, speeds, and numbers. Gatefold pages reveal dramatic large-scale artworks that let the young reader appreciate comparisons at a glance. Full color.
The Top 10 of Everything 2002
Author: Russell Ash
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN: 9780789480422
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This is an illustrated book of lists, a mix of facts and trivia on areas of human achievement and the natural world.
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN: 9780789480422
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This is an illustrated book of lists, a mix of facts and trivia on areas of human achievement and the natural world.
Impressionists' Seasons
Author: Russell Ash
Publisher: Pavilion
ISBN: 9781862052383
Category : Impressionism (Art)
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Divided into 4 seasonal chapters this book shows how the Impressionists depicted the seasons of the year. The masterpieces are accompanied by selected prose and verse from Zola, Blake and Elizabeth Barrett-Browning.'
Publisher: Pavilion
ISBN: 9781862052383
Category : Impressionism (Art)
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Divided into 4 seasonal chapters this book shows how the Impressionists depicted the seasons of the year. The masterpieces are accompanied by selected prose and verse from Zola, Blake and Elizabeth Barrett-Browning.'
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Author: Russell Ash
Publisher: Pavilion Books, Limited
ISBN: 9781857939514
Category : Art, British
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Burne-Jones, the Pre-Raphaelite painter and leader of the Aesthetic Movement is celebrated in this biographical, art and reference title that reproduces many of his works. Born in Birmingham, the son of a craftsman, Burne-Jones showed precocious ability at school. At Oxford University he met William Morris where they established a mutual interest in art. Their first important influence was that of one of the founding fathers of Pre-Raphaelitism, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, with whom in 1857 they painted murals at the Oxford Union. After Oxford his painting career developed and he rapidly established his position as the leader of the Aesthetic Movement. Burne-Jones also worked for Morris's firm, supplying designs for stained glass, tapestries, tiles and other products, including his own illustrations for the celebrated Kelmscott Chaucer.
Publisher: Pavilion Books, Limited
ISBN: 9781857939514
Category : Art, British
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Burne-Jones, the Pre-Raphaelite painter and leader of the Aesthetic Movement is celebrated in this biographical, art and reference title that reproduces many of his works. Born in Birmingham, the son of a craftsman, Burne-Jones showed precocious ability at school. At Oxford University he met William Morris where they established a mutual interest in art. Their first important influence was that of one of the founding fathers of Pre-Raphaelitism, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, with whom in 1857 they painted murals at the Oxford Union. After Oxford his painting career developed and he rapidly established his position as the leader of the Aesthetic Movement. Burne-Jones also worked for Morris's firm, supplying designs for stained glass, tapestries, tiles and other products, including his own illustrations for the celebrated Kelmscott Chaucer.
It Just Slipped Out
Author: Russell Ash
Publisher: Headline Book Publishing
ISBN: 9780755360864
Category : Plays on words
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
'Such was Catherine Morland at ten. At fifteen appearances were mending; she began to curl her hair and long for balls...' (Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey) 'Will it jerk me off?' (Margaret Thatcher, inspecting a field gun in the Falklands) 'You know, animals are very psychic. I mean, the least sign of danger and my pussy's hair stands on end' (Mrs Slocombe, Are You Being Served?) From the unwittingly filthy, to the gleefully subversive, double entendres have been making us laugh for centuries. In this hilarious survey, Russell Ash uncovers some of history's dirtiest double meanings. From the smut lurking between the polished lines of literature's most revered writers, to the public innuendo accidents that have tripped up even the most respected of politicians, right through to the sly innuendo that has characterized some of our best-loved comedies, IT JUST SLIPPED OUT has it all.
Publisher: Headline Book Publishing
ISBN: 9780755360864
Category : Plays on words
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
'Such was Catherine Morland at ten. At fifteen appearances were mending; she began to curl her hair and long for balls...' (Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey) 'Will it jerk me off?' (Margaret Thatcher, inspecting a field gun in the Falklands) 'You know, animals are very psychic. I mean, the least sign of danger and my pussy's hair stands on end' (Mrs Slocombe, Are You Being Served?) From the unwittingly filthy, to the gleefully subversive, double entendres have been making us laugh for centuries. In this hilarious survey, Russell Ash uncovers some of history's dirtiest double meanings. From the smut lurking between the polished lines of literature's most revered writers, to the public innuendo accidents that have tripped up even the most respected of politicians, right through to the sly innuendo that has characterized some of our best-loved comedies, IT JUST SLIPPED OUT has it all.