• Color My Home

    Color My Home

    Your Colors At Home Decorating with Your Seasonal Colors Smith and Gilbert 1985 In the 1980s, having your colors done, was quite the thing. I remember quite a few books and tv talk show segments devoted to figuring out color schemes worked for your skin tones. People were either a…

  • Smelly fun for the kids

    Smelly fun for the kids

    How To Make A Mystery Smell Balloon Shores 2011 I came across this title while I was browsing the catalog. Since the title was weird, I had to see what this was all about. Smelly balloons, really? This is actually a science book and is quite fun. I can see…

  • A-Diskette A-Daskette

    A-Diskette A-Daskette

    Hello, Mr. Chips! Bishop 1982 Submitter: I think this was probably a fantastic middle school book in 1982. What makes it awful now is that my students have never even heard of the terms that make up the punchlines. Also, the illustrations of computers with massive CPUs and pin-feed printers…

  • Poison! Beware!

    Poison! Beware!

    Poison! Beware! Be an Expert Poison Spotter Skidmore 1990 The cover of this book is awesomely awful! It reminds me of Latawnya the partying horse. Here we have: -A poisonous spider -Smoking a poisonous cigarette -On a poisonous mushroom -After taking poisonous pills (with a poison hazard symbol on the…

  • Find the man of your dreams

    Find the man of your dreams

    How to Marry the Man of Your Choice Kent 1987 I actually remember this book in its first incarnation as a privately published book that gave a money back guarantee. It made some headlines, especially since the book retailed for nearly 100 dollar. The original book was published in 1985…

  • Cat Tricks!

    Cat Tricks!

    Tricks Your Cat Can Do Langley 1985 We haven’t posted a cat book in a while, so I stumbled on this while browsing the catalog. This book is still in circulation and of course puts forth the idea of training cats to do tricks. This books belongs in that category…