Books with title The Little Giant® Book of Whodunits

Solve crimes like a detective, find clues where nobody else would think of looking, trap suspects with their own words, and ignore facts that appear to be significant but are only distractions. Better than a police academy course, all 80 of these simple stories will show you how to find the culprit while everybody else is completely confused. You'll make your town's Christmas merrier when you find out who shot Santa Claus. Figure out which family member poisoned the man of the house while he was watching the Super Bowl, and which housekeeping staffer hid a ruby necklace in a liquor bottle in plain sight. As you explore these fascinating whodunits, you'll enter a bizarre, glamorous, and dangerous world of mobsters, millionaires and heiresses--even detectives themselves. In case you can't outwit the bad guys, just turn to a special section of solutions to each mystery, including an explanation of each clue. Sterling 352 pages, 102 b/w illus., 4 3/16 x 5 1/4.

Solve crimes like a detective, find clues where nobody else would think of looking, trap suspects with their own words, and ignore facts that appear to be significant but are only distractions. Better than a police academy course, all 80 of these simple stories will show you how to find the culprit while everybody else is completely confused. You'll make your town's Christmas merrier when you find out who shot Santa Claus. Figure out which family member poisoned the man of the house while he was watching the Super Bowl, and which housekeeping staffer hid a ruby necklace in a liquor bottle in plain sight. As you explore these fascinating whodunits, you'll enter a bizarre, glamorous, and dangerous world of mobsters, millionaires and heiresses--even detectives themselves. In case you can't outwit the bad guys, just turn to a special section of solutions to each mystery, including an explanation of each clue. Sterling 352 pages, 102 b/w illus., 4 3/16 x 5 1/4.

It's dangerous to find over 1,750 riddles in one place, and the silly cartoons throughout this collection only make it harder to stop turning the pages. They're organized into 20 categories to keep you from getting lost (or losing your mind). Still, you can't stop turning the pages as you riddle yourself over money, getting sick, hurling insults, thinking up comebacks, enjoying nature, driving, playing, using computers. Just in time, the last riddle appears: What do joggers say when they leave you? So longùgotta run. 352 pages, 160 b/w illus., 4 3/16 x 5 1/4.

With more than 350 pages of instruction, games, diagrams, and strategy, this is the biggest and best book about dominoes ever! It will open up a whole world of entertainment, starting with the most basic skills and principles and ending with ideas for tournament play. So get out your tiles and begin learning what makes up a suit, how to score, and how to add your domino to the developing structure. Analyze entire games, all laid out for you to see easily. Have fun trying the incredible variety of variations: blocking games like Latin American Match; scoring ones, such as Merry-Go-Round and Sniff; Trumps and Tricks, including Nel-O and Plunge; and several solitaire versions. Or use special sets that have a different number and style of dominoes. There's so much fun packed in this tiny volume that you'll want to take it--and your dominoes--with you everywhere.

Like junk-food snacks, this biggest little collection of jokes has so many irresistible chuckles that we can't laugh at just one... Tourist (to farmer): Lived here all your life? Farmer: Not yet. Father: Bonnie, please take the dog out and give him some air. Bonnie: Sure, Dad. Where's the nearest gas station? Enjoy jokes about teachers, parents, brothers and sisters, doctors and patients, Martians and earthlings. And groaner book-and-author lists (Sport Injuries by Charlie Hawes; Cookouts Italian Style. Plus tongue twisters, shaggy dogs, first dates, and yes, Waiter, There's a Fly in My Soup jokes. 352 pages, 218 b/w illus., 4 3/16 x 5 1/4.

Are you ready to say "knock-knock" nearly a thousand times? Then here's a collection to last you a lifetime, or until you've driven your parents and friends crazy, whichever comes first. This is the biggest knock-knock treasury you'll ever find. While you fill the neighborhood with laughs, you'll also enjoy dozens of zany cartoon drawings that show just how ridiculous these jokes can be! 352 pages, 180 b/w illus., 4 3/16 x 5 1/4.

Over 350 pages of chuckles and chortles, snickers and snorts, giggles and guffaws. From Cool School to Funky Families, Cats and Dogs to Oh, Horrors, this is simply the biggest little book of jokes, riddles and knock-knocks ever. And the comical pictures on every page really add to the fun. Need a "worm up" to get your body ready for hours of hysterical laughter? Have some hoots on the birds: What did the parakeet say when it was hungry? "Long time no seed."Moo-ving right along: Why did the cow cross the street? To get to the udder side. Then it's lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my! Why couldn't the three bears get back into their house? Because it had Goldie locks.Plus: Law and Disorder, All Wet, Play Ball!, On the Net, and much more amusement.

To this day, dinosaurs remain a never-ending source of fascination to children, who just can't get enough of these compelling creatures. Illustrations, picturing over 60 dinosaur types (including some new discoveries that appear here for the first time in a children's book), maps, and a guide to each individual species--plus an overall introduction to fossils--tell youngsters how and why all the dinosaurs developed as they did. Answer exactly the types of question kids want to know: How big were they? What did they eat? Where did they live? What do their names mean? This lively trip back to the Age of the Dinosaurs, from its beginnings in the Triassic period to the great extinction at the end of the Cretaceous, is guided by one of the major authorities in the field, Dr. Thomas Holtz, vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Maryland, whose specialty is the study of carnivorous dinosaurs.

A handy and fun size illustrated guide that features big information, with more than 1,000 fun facts about animals familiar, unusual, and just plain bizarre. Whether kids are curious about cats, millipedes, parakeets, porpoises, or even the giant mola mola fish, the knowledge they uncover will make them say “wow.”* The forked tongue of a snake enables it to smell "in stereo."* The lungs of a horse are three times larger than those of a lion.* African elephants stay on their feet for 30 to 40 years.* Belching cows contribute to the greenhouse effect by adding methane to the atmosphere.Kids will feel smart entertaining their friends with everything new they know.

Pick a card game, any card game; after all, there are dozens to choose from! What a wonderful activity for a rainy day, or for those times when you want a little challenge. Plus, cards are perfect anywhere, from the living room floor to a train, plane, or automobile. Some, like Donkey Buttons and My Star Twinkles, will delight the very young--and stimulate their intellect, too. There are over 10 versions of War, including Revenge and Pisha Pasha, and others with a mathematic twist (Sevens, Knuckles, Finders Keepers). Old favorites appear, including Go Fish, Authors, and Old Maid. Play variations on Casino, Rummy (from Oklahoma Gin to Back Alley Bridge), and Whist, as well as Hearts. Use one or two packs for Solitaire, depending on which option strikes your fancy. To make the instructions even clearer, some of the games even have drawings to help guide you.