263 Brain Busters: Just How Smart Are You, Anyway? (Novels Series) - Softcover

Phillips, Louis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140318755 ISBN 13: 9780140318753

Publisher: Puffin, 1985

Synopsis

"This collection of questions that stimulate thinking is a combination joke book, logic book and puzzle book . . .The verbal questions that rely on word plays are particularly entertaining and sure to tickle many students."--School Library Journal

A collection of mathematical and verbal brain-teasing questions interspersed with "brain vacation" jokes.

About this title

About the Author:

Louis Phillips was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on June 15, 1942.He started writing at age 6 on his father's Smith-Corona typewriter and he has been typing. hunting and pecking, scribbling, computer entering, saving, deleting, filling up spiral notebooks, file folders, manuscript boxes, and two large lockers of manuscripts.He has written plays, short-stories, poems, humor pieces, and ransom notes.In addition. he may be one of the world's record holders for collectng rejection slips. His notion is that no matter how terrible he writes, somebody is writing worse and collecting a piles of money for his or her work.
In addition to his writing, Mr. Phillips is also works hard at his photography. He lives in Manhattan where he teaches at the School of Visual Arts.

From the Back Cover:

Put your brain in high gear with tricky teasers verbal vagaries, and mathematical mind-manglers. Then take a break with jolly 'brain vacation' jokes. This irrepressibly zany book will entertain and inform both real wits and 'halt-wits, ' with a word to the wise and few words for you, too!

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0140318755
• ISBN 13: 9780140318753
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96