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American History for Everyone will make the American adventure come alive for you.
A treasure chest of amazing facts, curiosities, and quizzes about your favorite authors and their works.
Richard Lederer shares wit and wisdom, information and inspiration about the incredible journey to maturity.
Celebrating Your Feline Friend
Celebrating Your Best Friend
A Tribute to Teachers celebrates the most unheralded, exhausting, income-challenged, and ultimately rewarding of all professions.
The perfect book for everyone who enjoys Christmas!
American History for Everyone will make the American adventure come alive for you. You’ll think more about the diverse people who have gone before us and worked so hard to bequeath us a united, spirited, and enchanting country, blessed with the gifts of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Woven into that history, along with the iconic figures — Betsy Ross, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, et al. — are the hidden figures — women and Brown, Black, and indigenous people who have contributed mightily to the fascinating story of our great nation.
A treasure chest of amazing facts, curiosities, and quizzes about your favorite authors and their works. Looking back to the Bible, classical mythology, and William Shakespeare and moving up to a library of contemporary writers, Richard Lederer’s Ultimate Book of Literary Trivia promises bright days of entertainment and enlightenment for the passionate book lover.
What fictional detective survived an attempted murder by his creator?
Whose gravestone bears the inscription “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”?
Who was the single mother, living on state benefits, whose series of fantastic novels made her the richest writer in England?
Dr. Lederer has written more than 60 books about language, history, and humor.
Richard Lederer shares wit and wisdom, information and inspiration about the incredible journey to maturity. The touching stories, fascinating facts, and rollicking humor will stir your soul, stimulate your mind, and tickle your funny bone. The pages are set in 14-point type.
A blend of touching stories, fascinating facts, and rollicking humor is presented in this entertaining look at the jaunt towards senior citizenship. Guaranteed to stir souls, stimulate minds, and tickle funny bones, the chapters include “Why It’s Great to Be Chronologically Endowed,” “Grandkids Say the Darnedest Things,” “The Lighter Side of Aging,” and “Jest for the Health of It.” Advice on enjoying one’s golden years is featured, from how to accumulate happiness and social wisdom to the delights of retirement. With puns, jokes, riddles, and puzzles illuminating important aspects on the aging process, this uproarious guide also lists outstanding achievements by “chronologically gifted” leaders, artists, writers, and athletes.
The Gift of Age is one of Dr. Lederer’s best-selling that is not about language. Jim McLean’s sprightly illustrations add joy to this book.
Celebrating Your Feline Friend
In these pages cat lovers can celebrate the special bond they share with their beloved companions. A heartwarming collection of fascinating facts, touching stories, history, science, and hilarious jokes about our feline friends.
Cat lovers everywhere, we invite you to come and celebrate the special bond we share with one of our most beloved companions! Join bestselling author Richard Lederer for a heartwarming collection of fascinating facts, touching stories, witty word games, and more — all complemented by hilarious drawings. Settle in with your favorite feline, as you read wit and wisdom like…
Why Cats Are Better Than Dogs
Famous Cats and Cat Lovers
A Cat’s Guide to Humans
10 Clues That Your Cat Has Hacked into Your E-mail Password
Celebrating Your Best Friend
In these pages dog lovers can celebrate the special bond they share with their beloved companions. A heartwarming collection of fascinating facts, touching stories, history, science, and hilarious jokes about our best friends.
Dogs have been man’s best friend for thousands of years, securing our hearts with their unwavering loyalty and boundless love. Join bestselling author Richard Lederer for a fun-filled collection of rollicking humor, witty word games, touching stories, and more — all complemented by hilarious drawings. Celebrate the company of your furry pal as you delight in such wit and wisdom as…
All I Need to Know I Learned from My Dog
Ten Commandments for Dog Owners
A Dozen Distinguished Dogs
The Difference Between Dogs and Cats
Cheering on the true heroes of the classroom, Richard Lederer sings a chorus of praise for those who change our lives one day and one lesson at a time. Readers will meet great teachers throughout history, as well as educators captured in literature, film, and comic strips. A must for teachers and those who love them.
Offering compelling proof that teachers really do make a difference in the English, math, history, and science classrooms, A Tribute to Teachers celebrates the most unheralded, exhausting, income-challenged, and ultimately rewarding of all professions.
A Treasury of Christmas Humor is chock-full of puns, jokes, riddles, games, poems, stories, history, lore, and more than 50 cartoons!
Richard’s signature mix of learning dressed up to have fun makes this the perfect book for everyone who enjoys Christmas!
What do cats say to each other at Christmas?
“Have a Furry Meowy Christmas!”
What do dogs say to each other at Christmas?
“Yappy Howl-a-Days!”
How do sheep greet each other at Christmas?
“Season’s Bleetings and Fleece Navidad! Fleece on earth, good wool to sheep!”
If athletes get athlete’s foot, what do astronauts get?
Missile toe.
From best-selling language writer and International Punster of the Year Richard Lederer comes this hilarious book about our most joyous holiday, illuminated by candles and graced by decorations, Christmas trees, poinsettias, traditional songs and carols, family feasts, the exchange of presents and greeting cards, and the donning of ugly sweaters.
Inside A Treasury of Christmas Humor you’ll find your favorite Christmas characters, including Santa Claus, Frosty the Snowman, elves, and all the reindeer, including red-nosed Rudolph.
Jim McLean’s sprightly drawings add to the rollicking fun of A Treasury of Christmas Humor.
This is the perfect book for family, friends, and yourself — everyone who loves Christmas fun!
Welcome to the website woven for wordaholics, logolepts, and verbivores. Carnivores eat meat; herbivores eat plants and vegetables; verbivores devour words. If you are heels over head (as well as head over heels) in love with words, tarry here a while to graze or, perhaps, feast on the English language. Ours is the only language in which you drive in a parkway and park in a driveway and your nose can run and your feet can smell.