Happy Witty Tails: Sweet and witty stories for children - or the child within. On real life through the magic of children's eyes. When the magic turns real. Povestioare frumoase si pline de talc pentru copii sau pentru Copilul Interior. Despre realitate asa com este ea vazuta prin magia de copii. Cand magicul este noua realitate. Fröhliche Fellgeschichten: Lustige und kluge Tiergeschichten für Kinder - und das Kind in uns. Das wahre Leben, gesehen mit der Magie von Kinderaugen. Wenn das Magische zur Wirklichkeit wird.

Short and fuzzy, long and scaled: no matter their size and shape, tails aren't just hanging around—they're useful! This fun, informative book invites readers to guess the owner of nine tails, and then turn the page to see the animal and its tail in action.

When you're craving a good mystery story, nothing else will do. The pieces gathered in Weird and Witty Tales of Mystery have the added benefit of a dash of humor, wit, and clever wordplay -- these definitely aren't dry and musty detective tales without an ounce of life or warmth. You'll be laughing even as you're sinking your teeth into these delightfully puzzling tales.

"Why does A. J. Liebling remain a vibrant role model for writers while the superb, prolific St. Clair McKelway has been sorely forgotten?" James Wolcott asked this question in a recent review of the Complete New Yorker on DVD. Anyone who has read a single paragraph of McKelway's work would struggle to provide an answer. His articles for the New Yorker were defined by their clean language and incomporable wit, by his love of New York's rough edges and his affection for the working man (whether that work was come by honestly or not). Like Joseph Mitchell and A. J. Liebling, McKelway combined the unflagging curiosity of a great reporter with the narrative flair of a master storyteller. William Shawn, the magazine's long-time editor, described him as a writer with the "lightest of light touches." His style is so striking, Shawn went on to say, that "it was too odd to be imitated." The pieces collected here are drawn from two of McKelway's books--True Tales from the Annals of Crime and Rascality (1951) and The Big Little Man from Brooklyn (1969). His subjects are the small players who in their particulars defined life in New York during the 36 years McKelway wrote: the junkmen, boxing cornermen, counterfeiters, con artists, fire marshals, priests, and beat cops and detectives. The "rascals." An amazing portrait of a long forgotten New York by the reporter who helped establish and utterly defined New Yorker "fact writing," Untitled Collection is long overdue celebration of a truly gifted writer.