Books with author Adam Walker Phillips

More than 90 wild, weird, and fun-packed commentaries describe true-life situations in which animals perform amazing feats and incredible stunts, sometimes on their own, and sometimes with help from very unusual owners. Here are animals of every kind, from an exotic pure white alligator in his natural habitat to entirely ordinary looking dogs, cats, and other familiar household pets who do extraordinary things. Boys and girls who love animals will find them more interesting than ever in this wide-ranging selection of often funny and always extraordinary accounts. Here, for example, is the story of Stumpy the four-legged duck, Musashi, the singing Japanese cat, and Charlie, a very athletic cat who climbs a vertical thirteen-foot-high wall so he can bask in the sun on his owner's balcony. Here too is Pixie, a deaf border collie who has shown her ability to learn sign language from her trainer. These are just a few of the absorbing stories told in this entertaining read for the entire family. It's packed with full-color photos and humorous cartoon-style illustrations on most pages.

The Wright Brothers: 75 Fascinating Facts for Kids.The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright, became interested in flight at an early age. When their father gave them a toy helicopter they spent hours playing with it and when it broke they built their own flying toys. Years later, the Wright brothers would build a real airplane and become the first men ever to take to the air in a powered aircraft.Phillip Walker's book brings you the important events and milestones in the Wright brothers' quest to become the first men to fly an airplane, by means of a detailed list of 75 important facts.We hope the facts about the Wright brothers in this book will fascinate you and encourage you to discover much more about Orville and Wilbur Wright.Chapters: The Early Years | Newspapers | Bicycles | Early Flight | The Problem of Control | Kitty Hawk | The Flyer | The Flyer's First Flight | "Flyers or Liars" | Fame & Fortune | Retirement & Legacy | Assorted Wright Brothers Facts

People are funny--and so are many animals when they're encouraged by their human keepers! Here's a tour of the weird and wacky side of life around the world, with surprises and laughs for older boys and girls. They'll read about people with unusual bodies, including the tallest and the shortest, as well as the man with the most tattoos, a woman with the longest fingernails, an 80-year-old body builder, and a studs-and-rings-decorated woman who calls herself The Human Pincushion. Among the world's most preposterous pastimes and silliest sports recounted here are cheese rolling contests, a crying baby competition, and so-called Underwater Olympics. Just two among the dozens of animal antics recounted include a report on Olympic games for pigs, held in Moscow in 2006, and the story of Fin and Tofu, a pair of New Zealand rats who go surfing with their owner. They're all reported in detail, with color photos as supporting evidence and amusing pull-out features that add crazy details to the stories. All entries come with funny quotations from the zany people whose feats are recorded in this book. This collection of ridiculous achievements will keep kids laughing every time they turn a page. Includes 160 color photos.

In his preface to this highly charged volume, psychologist Adam Phillips suggests that today's raging controversies over the nature of marriage and the soaring divorce rate are actually discussions about monogamy: What brings people together? Why should they, in fact, stay together? "What are couples for," he asks, "if they are not for pleasure? And if pleasure doesn't matter, then what does?"Phillips gives us 120 deliberately arguable aphorisms ("Every marriage is a blind date that makes you wonder what the alternatives are to a blind date." or "As yet, the promiscuous cannot grow old gracefully. But this may say more about our ideas of dignity, than of aging.") that discuss the concept of monogamy from every angle, discovering what it is and what it isn't, uncovering in it "a kind of moral nexus, a keyhole through which we can spy on our preoccupations."No reader will come away from this wholly unexpected book without feeling challenged to re-evaluate, and perhaps reconstruct, the time-honored (or is it time-hardened?) notions we hold about monogamy.

Abbie (nee) Phillips Walker (1867-before 1951) was the American author of: Sandman's Christmas Stories (1918), Sandman's Stories of Drusilla Doll (1920), Sandman's Goodnight Stories (1921), Sandman's Stories of Snowed-in-Hut (1923), Sandman's Stories of Twinkle-Eyes (1923), Sandman's Once-Upon-a-Time Stories (1925) and The Sandman's Hour: Stories for Bedtime (1932).

Excerpt from Sandman Twilight StoriesMr. Fox smiled to himself as he went along to Mr. Squirrel's house, for he really thought that Mr. Bear was a very clumsy fellow. Well, let him think so, he said to himself. It will be all the easier for me to win, with all the others SO sure they will finish first in the race.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.