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Mistakes That Worked

Presents the stories behind forty things that were invented or named by accident, including aspirin, X-rays, frisbees, silly putty, and velcro

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Hardcover:

9780399552021 | Delacorte Pr, October 11, 2016, cover price $12.99

9780385262460 | Doubleday, June 1, 1991, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Presents the stories behind forty things that were invented or named by accident, including aspirin, X-rays, frisbees, silly putty, and velcro

Westward Ho!: Eleven Explorers of the West

Introduces ten courageous explorers who, in their own ways, played a significant part in exploring and opening up the American West, including sea navigator Robert Gray, James Bridger, and John C. Fremont.

By Charlotte Foltz Jones

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Hardcover:

9780823415861 | Holiday House, January 30, 2005, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A collective biography of eleven men who explored the American West in the 18th and 19th centuries, including ship's officers, fur traders, and Army officers.

Eat Your Words: A Fascinating Look at Language

Discusses the history and meaning of all kinds of food-related words and phrases and describes customs and beliefs about various foods. (view table of contents)

By Charlotte Foltz Jones

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Reinforced:

9780606179966 | Demco Media, November 1, 2000, cover price $19.33 | About this edition: Discusses the history and meaning of all kinds of food-related words and phrases and describes customs and beliefs about various foods.

Eat Your Words: A Fascinating Look at the Language of Food

Provides an explanation as to how certain foods and food terminology, such as 'hush puppies' and 'selling like hotcakes', came to be apart of today's everyday conversation. (view table of contents)

By Charlotte Foltz Jones and John O'Brien (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9780385325752 | Delacorte Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Discusses the history and meaning of all kinds of food-related words and phrases and describes customs and beliefs about various foods

Paperback:

9780385325783 | Delacorte Pr, August 1, 2000, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Discusses the history and meaning of all kinds of food-related words and phrases and describes customs and beliefs about various foods.

Accidents May Happen

Describes how a wide variety of things such as nursery rhymes, the national anthem, anesthesia, cellophane, raisins, and dynamite came into being (view table of contents)

By Charlotte Foltz Jones and John O'Brien (illustrator)

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Prebinding:

9780613071932 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $23.25 | About this edition: Describes how a wide variety of things such as nursery rhymes, the national anthem, anesthesia, cellophane, raisins, and dynamite came into being

Yukon Gold: The Story of the Klondike Gold Rush

During the Canadian gold rush, very few people realized how inhospitable the Yukon was, how dangerous the journey would be, and how slim their chances were of making enough money to turn around and get home.

By Charlotte Foltz Jones

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School and Library:

9780823414031 | Holiday House, April 1, 1999, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Recounts the quest for gold that took place in the late 1890s in the Klondike region of the Yukon Territory of northwestern Canada

Fingerprints and Talking Bones: How Real-Life Crimes Are Solved

Describes the many different methods used to solve crimes, including skeletal and facial reconstruction, botanical or geological information, voiceprints, and hypnosis (view table of contents)

By Charlotte Foltz Jones

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Hardcover:

9780385322997 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, June 1, 1997, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Describes the many different methods used to solve crimes, including skeletal and facial reconstruction, botanical or geological information, voiceprints, and hypnosis

Paperback:

9780440413189 | Yearling Books, March 1, 1999, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Describes the many different methods used to solve crimes, including skeletal and facial reconstruction, botanical or geological information, voiceprints, and hypnosis

Reinforced:

9780606159081 | Demco Media, April 1, 1999, cover price $12.30 | About this edition: Describes the many different methods used to solve crimes, including skeletal and facial reconstruction, botanical or geological information, voiceprints, and hypnosis

Accidents May Happen: Fifty Inventions Discovered by Mistake

Presents the inspiring and often funny stories of fifty mistakes and misunderstandings that helped bring about everyday inventions, including telephones, microwave ovens, and yo-yos. Reprint. SLJ. AB. (view table of contents)

By Charlotte Foltz Jones and John O'Brien (illustrator)

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Paperback:

9780385322409 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, April 1, 1998, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Describes how a wide variety of things such as nursery rhymes, the national anthem, anesthesia, cellophane, raisins, and dynamite came into being

Accidents May Happen: 50 Inventions Discovered by Mistake

Describes how such everyday items as ice-cream sodas, microwave ovens, and yo-yos were invented or discovered accidentally, in a humorous fact book that is complemented by jokes and sidebars.

By Charlotte Foltz Jones and John O'Brien (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9780385321624 | Delacorte Pr, June 1, 1996, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Describes how a wide variety of things such as nursery rhymes, the national anthem, anesthesia, cellophane, raisins, and dynamite came into being

Mistakes That Worked: 40 Familiar Inventions and How They Came to Be

Recounting the fascinating stories behind the accidental inventions of forty familiar objects and products, this collection, illustrated by the artist of the New Yorker, tells of the origins of Frisbees, Post-it Notes, potato chips, Silly Putty, and more. Reprint.

By Charlotte Foltz Jones and John O'Brien (illustrator)

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Paperback:

9780385320436 | Reissue edition (Delacorte Pr, June 1, 1994), cover price $11.99 | About this edition: Presents the stories behind forty things that were invented or named by accident, including aspirin, X-rays, frisbees, silly putty, and velcro

Colorado Wildflowers: A Beginner's Field Guide to the State's Most Common Flowers

Product Description: Colorado has five different life zones, each growing its own garden of wildflowers. Some wildflowers even grow in many of the different life zones. Look carefully and you'll find everything from the delicate king's crown to the spiny prickly pear...read more

By Dd Dowden (illustrator) and Charlotte Foltz Jones

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Paperback:

9781560442660 | Falcon Pr Pub Co, May 1, 1994, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Colorado has five different life zones, each growing its own garden of wildflowers.

Chitty and Jacob's Queen's Bench Forms

By J. D. Adams, Jack Jacob, Charlotte Foltz Jones and R. L. Turner

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Hardcover:

9780421206007 | 21 edition (Thomson Professional Pub Canada, April 1, 1986), cover price $405.00

Only Child: Clues for Coping

With humor and a realistic approach, the author offers common sense advice on dealing with the special problems of being an only child

By Charlotte Foltz Jones

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Hardcover:

9780664327187 | Westminster John Knox Pr, November 1, 1984, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: Advice for the only child on being lonely, being spoiled, taming one's feelings, having friends, and the advantages and disadvantages of being a child with no siblings.

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