A Dictionary of Silly Words About Growing Up

Written for Parents Who Never Understand Anything Anyway

by Henry Beard and Roy McKie

Workman Publishing, 1988 [First Edition], ISBN 0894805843, colour illustrations throughout, illustrated end-papers, hardcover, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing to edges and corners, dust-jacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with some minor rubbing, creasing and a small tear at top back (see photographs)

"This book is filled with definitions of words about childhood, like "aunt" and "homework" and "vacation", and each one has a color drawing of the same thing next to it.  The definitions are very funny and so are the drawings, and I laughed at a lot of them.  Even though this book was written by an adult, whose name is Henry Beard, and the drawings are by another adult, named Roy McKie, and it says on the front cover that it was written for adults, all the definitions are from a child point of view, although it is a very smart-alecky child.  I think this book would make a good present, because it is nice and heavy and expensive-looking, and boy, if you swat a fly with this book, that fly is going to be history."