Books with author Rob Elliott

From the #1 bestselling author of Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids comes a brand-new joke collection with hundreds of spooky knee-slappers to make you cackle about monsters, mayhem, and more.Rob Elliott’s irresistible comedic genius returns to make your little ghosts and goblins laugh with nonstop puns, jokes, and other absurdities about everything that goes bump in the night. This refreshing classic is a perfect fit for the entire family to enjoy together!How does a monster like his coffee? With scream and sugar!

My name is Elliott Reed. You can call me Elliott, if you are grown or Mr. Reed, if you are not. Certain people call me "Coach" or "Mr. Elliott" too. I am writing this story just for you. I am writing it using what I call the “Ruby Standard” that I named for my then-8-year-old daughter. If I cannot explain a concept, an idea, a notion without meandering into more than a third-grader’s capacity to reason then I need to reconsider it. Not the premises of it, mind you, but the delivery. I am not dumbing anything down. I am not sugar-coating anything for you. I am giving you the truth about my life because I have a very specific goal -- I want the next generation to beat the current one on everything. I want to have a competition and I want to give you an idea of what I have done right, wrong, and so-so, in order to help steer you towards the right things, assist you in taking control over the things in your life that would distract, derail, or devour it. I want to see you win for yourself and your country. You can do it!

This work is suitable for ages 8-14. Medicine was a mysterious art in the Middle Ages and had not yet benefited from the scientific discoveries we take for granted today. This astonishing new book illustrates how death and incurable disease were considered a common part of medieval life. Young readers will be fascinated by the history of the Black Death, or the Plague, which killed millions of people in Europe, and why medical treatments in the Middle Ages were often worse than the disease. The topics include: a timeline of medical changes through the Middle Ages; common medieval diseases and their causes, such as smallpox, tuberculosis, diphtheria, and leprosy; The Back Plague and the modern explanation for it; the Four Humors; operations and treatments such as bloodletting, cupping, cauterising; medicine makers such as apothecaries and housewives; famous doctors such as Hippocrates, Galen, Rhazes and Avicenna; and women's place in medicine.