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The Daily Blab

With manic, mock photographs and cartoons on every page, as well as mock articles and columns, this nutty newspaper spoof contains all the standard newspaper features, each distorted by ridiculous twists

By Ron Barrett

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Paperback:

9780394848112 | Random House Childrens Books, August 1, 1981, cover price $1.95 | About this edition: Presents a humorous gardening column, advice column, horoscope, news items, and editorials in a newspaper format.

Hi-Yo Fido!

Relates how a ranch for dogs, complete with dogboys and doggirls, became a place to raise cows.

By Ron Barrett

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Hardcover:

9780517552155 | Crown Pub, March 1, 1986, cover price $1.99 | About this edition: Relates how a ranch for dogs, complete with dogboys and doggirls, became a place to raise cows.

Chicken Trek: The Third Strange Thing That Happened to Oscar Noodleman

Product Description: From the author of Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days! . . .How much chicken can one human eat? Oscar Noodleman is about to find out!Oscar owes his weird inventor cousin $49,462.37--plus tax. His cousin needs the money to avoid a horrible fate...read more

By Ron Barrett (illustrator) and Stephen Manes

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Paperback:

9780553157161 | Reprint edition (Skylark, September 1, 1991), cover price $2.99 | About this edition: From the author of Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!

School and Library:

9780525443124 | Dutton Childrens Books, August 1, 1987, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Oscar spends the summer with his inventor cousin traveling around th United States in a Picklemobile eating chicken in the bag to win a contest, while being pursued by an angry woman with mystical powers, who is also determined to win the contest.

Ghastlies, Goops and Pincushions: Nonsense Verse

A collection of nonsense poems describing a variety of unlikely characters and situations

By Ron Barrett (illustrator) and X. J. Kennedy

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School and Library:

9780689504778 | Margaret K McElderry, May 1, 1989, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A collection of nonsense poems describing a variety of unlikely characters and situations

How to Dad

Provides light-hearted instruction for fathers on activities they can do with their children, from riding a bicycle, playing games and making things to opening a bank account

By Ron Barrett and John Boswell

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Hardcover:

9780440503026 | Dell Pub Co, May 1, 1990, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Provides light-hearted instruction for fathers on activities they can do with their children, from riding a bicycle, playing games and making things to opening a bank account

How to Care for Your Pet Dinosaur and Your Imaginary Dog: A Guide to Really Weird Pets

Provides instructions in the acquistion, care, and feeding of weird pets such as dinosaurs, bacteria, clothes, moths, and imaginary dogs.

By Ron Barrett

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Hardcover:

9780690045093 | Harpercollins, December 1, 1990, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Provides instructions in the acquistion, care, and feeding of weird pets such as dinosaurs, bacteria, clothes, moths, and imaginary dogs.

Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing.

Product Description: Not everyone needs to get dressed. A beloved favorite is now a Classic Board Book, with new illustrations!Animals should definitely not wear clothing….because a snake would lose it, a billy goat would eat it for lunch, and it would always be wet on a walrus! This popular book by Judi Barrett and Ron Barrett shows the very youngest why animals’ natural clothing is perfect just as it is...read more

By Ron Barrett (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9781442433342, titled "Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing" | Board book edition (Little Simon, January 3, 2012), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Not everyone needs to get dressed.

Paperback:

9780590447393, titled "Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing" | Scholastic Educational, January 1, 1991, cover price $3.50

Bah! Humbug: 101 Great Reasons to Hate the Holidays

Scrooges will recognize their favorite antipathies to the Christmas season in this humorous, illustrated compendium of annoyances--including looking for the burned-out bulb on the Christmas lights and finding Jimmy Stewart on every TV channel. Original.

By Ron Barrett and Patty Brown

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Paperback:

9780671796006 | Pocket Books, December 1, 1992, cover price $7.00 | About this edition: Offers a humorous look at Christmas chores, shopping, decorating, pageants, office parties, annoyances, and disappointments

The Way Things Really Work

Provides humorous explanations and clever illustrations for common conundrums, such as why Chinese food always tastes the same, why the soda machine always eats quarters, and how levers and pulleys actually work. 50,000 first printing.

By Ron Barrett and Henry Beard

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Hardcover:

9780670850730 | Viking Pr, November 1, 1993, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Provides humorous explanations for common conundrums, such as why Chinese food always tastes the same, why the soda machine always eats quarters, and how levers and pulleys actually work

How to Mom

A collection of traditional and contemporary 'mom-skills' includes instructions for packing a lunch box, plaiting a braid, fixing a boo-boo, giving a birthday party, spending a rainy day, making chocolate treats, and building a child's ego

By Ron Barrett, Carol Boswell and Dale Burg

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Hardcover:

9780440506560 | Dell Books, May 1, 1995, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A collection of traditional and contemporary 'mom-skills' includes instructions for packing a lunch box, plaiting a braid, fixing a boo-boo, giving a birthday party, spending a rainy day, making chocolate treats, and building a child's ego

O.J.'s Legal Pad

A darkly humorous parody of the trial includes O.J. Simpson's instructions to his lawyers, ideas for alibis, caricatures of Judge Ito and the prosecutors, and marketing ideas

By Ron Barrett, Henry Beard and John Boswell

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9780679768838, titled "O.J.'s Legal Pad" | Villard Books, May 1, 1995, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A darkly humorous parody of the trial includes O.

Herstory : Lisa Marie's Wedding Diary: Shamelessly Concocted

A mock diary purports to share Lisa Marie Presley's views on her relationship with Michael Jackson

By Ron Barrett (illustrator), Chris Kelly and Sean Kelly

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9780679775409, titled "Herstory : Lisa Marie's Wedding Diary: Shamelessly Concocted" | Villard Books, May 1, 1996, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A mock diary purports to share Lisa Marie Presley's views on her relationship with Michael Jackson

Wackysauraus: Dinosaur Jokes

A collection of jokes, riddles, puns, and knock-knocks about dinosaurs

By Ron Barrett (illustrator) and Louis Phillips

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Paperback:

9780140386486 | Reissue edition (Puffin, April 1, 1997), cover price $3.99 | About this edition: A collection of jokes, riddles, puns, and knock-knocks about dinosaurs

Reinforced:

9780606120425 | Reissue edition (Demco Media, April 1, 1997), cover price $11.30 | About this edition: A collection of jokes, riddles, puns, and knock-knocks about dinosaurs

Zen for Cats

The popular humorist and author of French for Cats presents a complete guide to Buddhism feline style, covering such topics as Horigami (the art of Messing up Important Papers by Sitting on Them) and Shojin Ryori (macrobiotic foods for cats). 100,000 first printing.

By Ron Barrett (illustrator) and Henry Beard

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Hardcover:

9780375500343 | Villard Books, November 1, 1997, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Presents a complete guide to Buddhism feline style, covering such topics as Horigami, the art of messing up important papers by sitting on them, and Shojin Ryori, macrobiotic food for cats

Bill Clinton's Little Black Book

A mock address book lists the President's supposed amorous conquests and shares his alleged comments on each individual

By Ron Barrett and Richard W. Smith

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9780375752414 | Villa Pr, February 1, 1998, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A mock address book lists the President's supposed amorous conquests and shares his alleged comments on each individual

The Energizing Hanukkah: Story for Children

Tells the story of the holiday of Hanukkah in words and pictures, including how Hanukkah occurred, the lighting of Hanukkah candles, and playing the game of dreidle.

By Ron Barrett, Don Channen (illustrator) and Chaim Mazo

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Paperback:

9780943706276 | Rev exp edition (Simcha Media Group, September 1, 1998), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Information about the origins and meaning of Hanukkah, and about how it is celebrated, is accompanied by drawings related to the holiday in which the reader is asked to find hidden objects

Bill Gates' Personal, Super-Secret, Private Laptop: A Microspoof

A humorous look inside the computer guru's supposed personal PC reveals his inner-most thoughts and schemes, pictured as though it were appearing on an actual laptop screen covered with fingerprints and a Coke-stained keyboard. 150,000 first printing.

By Ron Barrett (illustrator), Henry Beard and John Boswell

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Hardcover:

9780684854649 | Simon & Schuster, October 1, 1998, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Offers a humorous look inside the computer guru's supposed personal PC

The Energizing Jewish Holidays for Children

Product Description: Keeps kids learning...and learning...and learning.... Each Jewish Holiday reveals its history, meaning, customs and laws in a humorous first person account. 'Can you find?' illustrations featuring hidden Holiday Symbols.

By Ron Barrett (illustrator), Gedalia Peterseil and Janet Zwebner (illustrator)

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Paperback:

9780943706924 | Rev exp edition (Simcha Media Group, April 1, 1999), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Keeps kids learning.

Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing: Los Animales No Se Visten

By Judi Barrett, Ron Barrett (illustrator) and J. Davis (trans)

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Paperback:

9780874995640 | Pap/cas un edition (Live Oak Media, December 1, 1999), cover price $33.95

Los animales no deben actuar como la gente / Animals Should Definitely Not Act Like People

Pictures of animals wearing clothes show why this would be a ridiculous custom for them to adopt.

By Judi Barrett and Ron Barrett (illustrator)

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Paperback:

9789505158072 | Italian edition edition (De LA Flor S.R.L., Ediciones, April 1, 2000), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Pictures of animals wearing clothes show why this would be a ridiculous custom for them to adopt.

Pickles to Pittsburgh: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs2

In the amusing sequel to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, the residents of Chewandswallow become involved in a project with a food company that transports goods around the world. Reprint.

By Judi Barrett and Ron Barrett (editor)

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Paperback:

9780689839290 | Reprint edition (Atheneum, November 1, 2000), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Dozing off while contemplating Grandpa's unusual vacation, Kate dreams about Chewandswallow, where it snows popcorn and rains sandwiches and the fate of falling food intrigues her.

Cloudy/Pickles DVD Collection

Product Description: Two tall tales about the tiny town of Chewandswallow. Iconographic DVD shot directly from original art. Public performance rights are included, permitting group showings in schools and libraries.

By Ron Barrett

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Hardcover:

9781591122142 | Dvd edition (Live Oak Media, July 31, 2003), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Two tall tales about the tiny town of Chewandswallow.

Where's Saddam?

Readers can help President George W. Bush in his search for Saddam Hussein by opening flaps to reveal answers to such questions as 'Is he in France?' and 'Has he moved to 'the burbs'?'

By Ron Barrett (illustrator), Henry Beard, John Boswell and Gary Hallgren (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9780767917179 | Broadway Books, September 1, 2003, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Readers can help President George W.

Pickles To Pittsburg: The Sequel To Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs

Dozing off while contemplating Grandpa's unusual vacation, Kate dreams about Chewandswallow, where it snows popcorn and rains sandwiches and the fate of falling food intrigues her.

By Judi Barrett and Ron Barrett (illustrator)

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Paperback:

9780874995374 | Pap/cas edition (Live Oak Media, November 1, 2004), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Dozing off while contemplating Grandpa's unusual vacation, Kate dreams about Chewandswallow, where it snows popcorn and rains sandwiches and the fate of falling food intrigues her.

The Nutty News

Crazy headlines and amusing stories are presented in this wacky collection of newspaper article parodies, including 'Gerbile Elected President of France' and a 'Dear Gabby' column. Simultaneous.

By Ron Barrett

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Paperback:

9780375827518 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 30, 2005, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Crazy headlines and amusing stories are presented in this wacky collection of newspaper article parodies, including 'Cartoons haunt family' and a 'Dear Gabby' column.

Library:

9780375927515 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 8, 2005, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Crazy headlines and amusing stories are presented in this wacky collection of newspaper article parodies, including 'Cartoons haunt family' and a 'Dear Gabby' column.

Prebinding:

9781417676071, titled "Nutty News" | Turtleback Books, November 8, 2005, cover price $18.10 | About this edition: Crazy headlines and amusing stories are presented in this wacky collection of newspaper article parodies, including 'Cartoons haunt family' and a 'Dear Gabby' column.

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