Delightful collection of 60 limericks includes famous rhymes by such masters of the form as Gelett Burgess, Oliver Herford, and Edward Lear, as well as lesser-known works by these and other humorists, including the editor himself. Fun to read, easy to memorize and great to share with family and friends, each entertaining snippet of verse is accompanied by an equally humorous illustration.

What a variety of puzzles word lovers will find here! It's enough to delight and intrigue even the most demanding solvers, and keep them busy for hours. Just as soon as they master one type of problem, they'll find others that demand a new type of skill. Try language puzzles, which involve letter-switching, dropping, and swapping to uncover famous quotations from writers and celebrities. Or take a chance on the ones with grids-there are 11 different kinds, including missing links, boomerangs, cross anagrams, word spirals, quadrants and helter-skelter. They're all fun-and they'll definitely increase anyone's word awareness.

It's a language lover's delight--a tempting variety of intriguing word puzzles. And almost none has traditional clues, so you won't face those weird words that pop up in everyday crosswords. Go Two by Two to complete mini-grids: all the vowels are already there, but two consonants (repeated as often as necessary) are needed to fill in the blanks. Test your skills on Split Decisions--crosswords where each answer consists of two words that share the letters that belong in the empty squares. The only clues are the letter pairs already printed on the grid. It looks like this: And there are Anagram Loops, Mixagrams, Frazes Its, and other unique inventions. You won't go back to ordinary crosswords again! The author lives in Wantagh, NY. 96 pages, 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.