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Fear the Robot Invasion!

50 Facts About Robots Lambert 1983 A 6 year old regular patron of mine once stated “you can’t have too many robot books”. True enough. However, I think we can safely let this one slide into the great beyond. Aside from the dirty cover and tape repairs, this book is…
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More bad processing
Sassy: Little Sister Is NOT My Name! Draper 2010 Submitter: True Story. My daughter and I were at school shelving summer intervention books, and she brought my library copy of Sassy up to me with a giggle. I swear I had not shown her the previous posts! Oddly, I had…
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Weeding in the gardening section

Make Friends with Your Fruit Trees Baker 1973 Submitter: I just found another awful book for your page, this one is the PITS!! Well, it’s about fruit trees so “the pits” is probably a great way to refer to it… The part I really liked is the list of books…
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Will Disco Ever Die?

Disco Dancing Cherry and Tomlan 1979 Submitter: Will Disco Ever Die? Found this in the children’s books and it’s kept me laughing for several days so maybe we should keep it – recataloged under Humor. Tap disco???? Who would be able to hear the tapping in a noisy disco??! Holly:…
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Older Than God

Triumph of God’s Love White 1957 Submitter: We are a state university in Connecticut, and we found this little gem while pulling hold requests today. Someone actually placed a hold on it… Besides being incredibly outdated, this wonderful piece of literature (thankfully!) has some very humorous illustrations. According to the…
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Kids Cook Too

Betty Crocker’s Cook Book for Boys and Girls Crocker 2003 Submitter: We pride ourselves on having an up to date collection. Unfortunately while trying to find a cookbook for a reluctant reader who loves cooking, I found this atrocity. Granted it is a reprint from 2003, but there have been…