Product Description: Slapstick comedy has been entertaining audiences for centuries. Within slapstick, comic pain and comic violence are performed to provoke laughter. This book explores just how and why the performance of pain and violence can make us laugh...read more

Product Description: Author John Micklos, Jr. takes readers through two of the wildest and most dangerous winters during the Revolutionary War. From Washington's famous crossing of the Delaware on the Christmas of 1776 to the harsh winter camp at Valley Forge in 1777, readers will find out how the Continental Army not only survived, but also transformed into a fully trained fighting force against the British...read more

Accounts from children, police, immigration officers, and the immigrants themselves come to life in a moving tale about the history of Ellis Island, enhanced will black-and-white photographs.