Funny Business

Author : Jon Scieszka
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061963747
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guys Read: Funny Business written by Jon Scieszka and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s here: Volume One of the official Guys Read Library. Jon Scieszka’s Guys Read initiative was founded on a simple premise: that young guys enjoy reading most when they have reading they can enjoy. And out of this comes a series that aims to give them just that. Ten books, arranged by theme, featuring the best of the best where writing for kids is concerned. Each book is a collection of original short stories, but these aren’t your typical anthologies—each book is edgy, inventive, visual, and one-of-a-kind, featuring a different theme for guys to get excited about. Funny Business is based around the theme of—what else?—humor, and if you’re familiar with Jon and Guys Read, you already know what you’re in store for: ten hilarious stories from some of the funniest writers around. Before you’re through, you’ll meet a teenage mummy; a kid desperate to take a dip in the world’s largest pool of chocolate milk; a homicidal turkey; parents who hand over their son’s room to a biker; the only kid in his middle school who hasn’t turned into a vampire, wizard, or superhero; and more. And the contributor list includes bestselling author, award winners, and fresh new talent alike: Mac Barnett, Eoin Colfer, Christopher Paul Curtis, Kate DiCamillo (writing with Jon Scieszka), Paul Feig, Jack Gantos, Jeff Kinney, David Lubar, Adam Rex, and David Yoo. Guys Read is all about turning young readers into lifelong ones—and with this book, and each subsequent installment in the series, we aim to leave no guy unturned.

Author : Gary J. Katzenstein
Publisher : Soho PressInc
ISBN 13 : 9781569472033
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Funny Business written by Gary J. Katzenstein and published by Soho PressInc. This book was released on 1989-12-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christine Cashen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982975121
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It's Your Business written by Christine Cashen and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leonard S. Marcus
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 153620126X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Funny Business written by Leonard S. Marcus and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes funny FUNNY? An esteemed anthologist interviews thirteen favorite children’s authors -- and asks them to share their trade secrets. (Age 12 and up) DO YOU EVER MAKE YOURSELF LAUGH WHILE YOU ARE WRITING? "A joke isn’t a joke if you need to explain it," notes Leonard S. Marcus. "Even so, the hidden clockwork of comedy . . . has long been considered one of the great riddles of life." There are many kinds of humor, but capturing their essence on paper is a remarkably difficult (and often undervalued) skill. So how do authors create books that not only stand the tests of time but also make us laugh? In thirteen fascinating interviews, well-loved writers of humorous books for children discuss an array of topics, from their sources of inspiration to the ways they began writing, from their revision processes to childhood anecdotes to the value they place on comedy in their work and lives. Beautifully designed and thoughtfully edited, this collection is bound to tickle the fancy of children and adults alike.

Author : Michael Hill
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0593229525
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Funny Business written by Michael Hill and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A delightful and entertaining book about one of America’s greatest humorists.”—Seth Meyers This “absorbing, illuminating” (Jon Meacham) biography of the legendary political humorist reveals the life behind his must-read Washington Post columns, featuring never-before-published photos, documents, and interviews. Before Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah, and Doonesbury, there was Art Buchwald. For more than fifty years, from 1949 to 2006, Art Buchwald’s Pulitzer Prize–winning column of political satire and biting wit made him one of the most widely read American humorists and a popular player in the Washington world of Ethel and Ted Kennedy, Ben Bradlee, and Katharine Graham. Dean Acheson, former U.S. Secretary of State, called Buchwald the “greatest satirist in the English language since Pope and Swift.” Drawing on Buchwald’s most memorable columns and unpublished correspondence with other famous people, Funny Business shows how Art Buchwald became an American original. Like Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, and James Thurber, he satirized political scoundrels, lampooned the powerful, and “worshipped the quicksand” that ten presidents walked on, as Buchwald joked. “The key to Buchwald’s style of humor, he once stated, was to “treat light subjects seriously and serious subjects lightly.” But there was a darker, more serious side to Art Buchwald. A childhood spent in foster homes taught him to see comedy as a refuge. Buchwald also struggled with depression, a secret he kept from the public for nearly thirty years. This revealing book is studded with stories of Buchwald’s friendships with Humphrey Bogart, John Steinbeck, Irwin Shaw, William Styron, Erma Bombeck, Frank Sinatra, Adam West ("Batman"), Robert Frost, and others. Throughout his career, Buchwald wrote about such historical events as the Vietnam War, the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy, Watergate, and the 9/11 terrorist attack. Featured here are stories of Buchwald’s nonstop one-liners, known in his day as “Buchshots.” Entertaining and absorbing, Funny Business looks back on Buchwald’s brilliant gift for humor and satire, which will once again bring readers a comedic respite from troublesome times.

Author : Edith Thacher Hurd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Funny Business written by Edith Thacher Hurd and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katten Carl må blive hjemme, mens familien tager på skovtur, i stedet drømmer den om en udflugt, hvor den bliver dagens helt

Author : Allen Rosenshine
Publisher : Beaufort Books
ISBN 13 : 082530539X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Funny Business written by Allen Rosenshine and published by Beaufort Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A famous ad for Levy's Jewish Rye Bread showed an African-American kid, smiling after biting a deli sandwich obviously made with their product. The headline read: You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's. And you don't have to be in advertising (or even in business) to love these laugh-out-loud stories, a result of Allen Rosenshine's nearly 45 years in advertising. The moguls he's known--many of America's most recognizable captains of industry--appear in scenes uncustomary to any corporate boardroom. The mobsters he's dealt with come off as characters far more comic than threatening. The megastars he's met, from presidents to pop artists to pro athletes, are captured here as no camera has ever seen them. When these crowds mixed with the madcap world of Madison Avenue, it was never business as usual. Funny Business is funny, it's about business, but more than that, it's about being human. It's about all of us--the only creatures on earth that can really laugh, most meaningfully at ourselves.

Author : Marsh Cassady
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Funny Business written by Marsh Cassady and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-two one-act plays and sketches demonstrating comedy techniques. Comedy relies upon exaggeration incongruity, automatism, character inconsistency, surprise and derision. Now a book that defines and demonstrates each of these devices with twenty-two short sketches and one-act plays.

Author : Jeffrey Cooley Jr.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479718106
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Funny Business written by Jeffrey Cooley Jr. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funny Business: The Simple Truth About Money is an extraordinary educational read for children. This book manages to effectively simplify some of the technical concepts of business and finance that affect each of us within our day to day interactions. The author thinks it important to give our children of today a resource that they can use for pre-exposure to fundamental financial concepts. It is important to note that throughout the last 6 years of economic adversity and financial crises people have opted to speak out about the elephant in the room that was once commonly ignored during more favorable economic times. Ladies and gentlemen, that elephant in the room is financial literacy. Today people are questioning; business, credit, economics, investment, and cost inflation. Well this book provides a proactive approach to financial education by simplifying these concepts for our children so that they don't seem so unfamiliar when they become adults. If we've ever considered the future of our children important, then we have to come to terms with the fact that literacy is not limited to appropriate sentence structure or the mastery of a particular language. Literacy also involves business, economics, and finance. This book is a great resource for children ages 7 and up, but even adults may think these concepts to be important in an open market economy. Instilling financial education requires that someone take the time to explain, and this book's author does just that within 6 chapters of explanations and examples that are designed to encourage practical application. Why wait

Author : Rachel Brittain
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0573696136
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Funny Business written by Rachel Brittain and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedy / Casting: 3 male, 2 female When low morale threatens the Toronto branch of Chime Communications Canada, five ordinary office workers must mount a team-building talent show to savetheir jobs. Meet Stuart, the lovable yet inappropriate office manager, Marcus, the smooth talking sales rep, Diane, the tough as nails marketing manager, Brie, the perky and scheming receptionist, and Jack, the awkward guitar-playing intern. Together, they must use their hidden talents to sing, dance and manipulate their way through the talent show, which ultimately degenerates into a every-man-for-themselves battle of office skills, where only one will walk away without a pink slip. Featuring a sales versus marketing salsa, a fowl-mouthed printer puppet, and more office backstabbing than HR can handle, the team must learn to keep it together without tearing each other apart. This fast-paced, comedic romp through office culture features a catchy, original pop-musical score, and five unforgettable characters that you're bound to recognize from around the water cooler. An exciting and fun new musical, Funny Business is the perfect production for cubicle dwellers and blue collars alike. "A Runaway hit" - Classical 96FM (Toronto) Fresh, tuneful, and full of talent...a guaranteed good time " -Toronto Star