263 Brain Busters: Just How Smart are You, Anyway? (Novels Series)

Phillips, Louis

ISBN 10: 0140318755 / ISBN 13: 9780140318753

Published by Puffin Books, 1985

About this Item

This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: 263 Brain Busters: Just How Smart are You, Anyway? (Novels Series)
• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140318755
• ISBN 13: 9780140318753
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Acceptable

About this title

Synopsis

"This collection of questions that stimulate thinking is a combination joke book, logic book and puzzle book . . .The verbal questions that rely on word plays are particularly entertaining and sure to tickle many students."--School Library Journal

A collection of mathematical and verbal brain-teasing questions interspersed with "brain vacation" jokes.

About the Author

Louis Phillips was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on June 15, 1942.He started writing at age 6 on his father's Smith-Corona typewriter and he has been typing. hunting and pecking, scribbling, computer entering, saving, deleting, filling up spiral notebooks, file folders, manuscript boxes, and two large lockers of manuscripts.He has written plays, short-stories, poems, humor pieces, and ransom notes.In addition. he may be one of the world's record holders for collectng rejection slips. His notion is that no matter how terrible he writes, somebody is writing worse and collecting a piles of money for his or her work.
In addition to his writing, Mr. Phillips is also works hard at his photography. He lives in Manhattan where he teaches at the School of Visual Arts.