THE FOURTH TITLE FROM THE BRILLIANT EMILY RAND, AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR OF A DOG DAY, IN THE DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT AND THE LOST PROPERTY OFFICE. Mr McDuff lives in a house full of stuff! He loves colle
Adam wanted a brother. Instead he got a sister called Mo and now his house is full of new stuff and all of it is for the baby. Well, Adam doesn't think the baby is lovely and he doesn't like the name
There was a time when no one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated “its own kind of moral laws,” spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced seemingly everyone who was anyone in Los Angeles for a long stretch of the 1960s and ’70s. But there was one man who proved elusive, and so Babitz did what she did best, she wrote him a book. She also pulled off a remarkable sleight of hand:Slow Days, Fast Company far exceeds its mash-note premise. It is a full-fledged and full-bodied evocation of a bygone Southern California. In ten sun-baked, Santa Ana wind–swept sketches, Babitz re-creates a Los Angeles of movie stars distraught over their success; socialites on three-day drug binges, evading their East Coast banking husbands; soap-opera actors worried that tomorrow’s script will kill them off; Italian femme fatales even more fatal than she is. And she even leaves L.A. sometimes, spending an afternoon at the house of flawless Orange County su
《Kay的搞笑發明百科》，亞當·凱（Adam Kay）全新力作！繼暢銷書《Kay的身體百科》和《這會很痛》後，這本充滿笑料與知識的兒童書由喜劇搭檔亨利·帕克（Henry Paker）插畫。揭曉手機、學校等發明背後的奇趣故事：魔鬼氈竟由狗啟發？WiFi靈感來自電影明星？還有古希臘人用餐盤擦屁股、黃油中藏蟲卵等荒唐歷史！本書集結生活中最酷、最怪、最荒誕的發明，讓你笑中學，學中笑！Do you ever wonder where the stuff around you all came from? No, not from eBay. I mean, who had the amazing idea of making a mobile phone or the annoying idea of building a school? For example, did you know that Velcro was invented by a dog and WiFi by a movie star? (Spoiler alert - it wasn’t Zendaya.)In the fourth laugh-out-loud book from Adam Kay and Henry Paker, you’ll learn all about the coolest, grossest and most ridiculous inventions in the world. You’ll meet the queen who used the first ever toilet, learn why margarine used to be full of maggots and find out why Ancient Greeks wiped their bums on dinner plates.Oh, and hopefully some slightly more useful facts as well…An A to Kay to Z of the random, ridiculous and revolutionary inventions that changed our lives. (And some that definitely didn't
