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Brain Quest is a registered trademark of Workman Publishing Company, Inc., and Play Bac, S.A.

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A nnouncing a 1,000,000-copy, $1,000,000 marketing- budget relaunch of Brain Quest, America’s #1

educational bestseller with over 36 million copies in print. It’s a significant makeover, inside and out, updated and refreshed, and is supported by a yearlong national marketing and publicity campaign.

Brain Quest is beloved by kids, trusted by parents, used and recommended by teachers. It’s the curriculum-based, fast-paced, question-and-answer game that challenges kids on the stuff they need to know, when they need to know it. It’s the brand that says “It’s fun to be smart!” And it delivers.

For the fourth edition every deck is thoroughly revised and includes 20 percent new material. The content aligns with national and state standards and is overseen by the Brain Quest Advisory Board, a panel of award-winning educators, each a

recent state teacher-of-the-year award winner or a recipient of the prestigious Milken Educator Award. The covers and cards have a refreshed design, giving Brain Quest a cooler, updated look. (The plastic-free, easy-to-display pop-top box remains the same.)

The big news is the million-dollar-plus rollout featuring: A 100-city tour, featuring Drive for the Kids™ Brain Quest Challenge Events, presented by Chrysler. A 20-city national tour featuring Brain Quest spokesperson Kim Tredick, Milken Educator Award winner. A $150,000 national print and televi-sion advertising campaign. The $25,000 Brain Quest College Tuition Sweepstakes, presented by Chrysler and promoted on the front of the box. The new Brain Quest Teacher Award, also presented by Chrysler. A new Brain Quest app and revamped website (www.brainquest.com) with social media marketing. Because it’s not just fun to be smart—it’s smart to be smart.

FOURTH EDITION

20th Anniversary $1 Million Relaunch Program

Celebrate 20 years of the bestselling educational brand that makes learning fun! QUESTQUEST

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It’s Fun to Be Smart is a registered trademark of Workman Publishing Company, Inc. Chrysler is a registered trademark of Chrysler Group LLC.

BRAIN QUEST®

Full-color illustrations throughout; question-and-answer cards hinged together by a plastic bolt; 2 decks are shrink-wrapped inside a flip-top box; package: 29/16" x 113/16" x 7 5/16" Each $11.95/$14.95 Can.

� All-new BRAIN QUEST app

� Completely revised and updated with 20 percent new material to address national standards and testing, plus refreshed artwork and design

� National print and TV advertising

EARLY CHILDHOODMy First Brain Quest ISBN: 978-0-7611-6662-7No. 16662Previous ISBN:

978-0-7611-3773-3

Brain Quest for ThreesISBN: 978-0-7611-6663-4No. 16663Previous ISBN:

978-0-7611-3774-0

Brain Quest for PreschoolISBN: 978-0-7611-6659-7No. 16659Previous ISBN:

978-0-7611-3770-2

Brain Quest for KindergartenISBN: 978-0-7611-6660-3No. 16660Previous ISBN:

978-0-7611-3771-9

GRADES 1 TO 7Brain Quest, Grade 1ISBN: 978-0-7611-6651-1No. 16651Previous ISBN:

978-0-7611-3762-7

Brain Quest, Grade 2ISBN: 978-0-7611-6652-8No. 16652Previous ISBN:

978-0-7611-3763-4


978-0-7611-3764-1


978-0-7611-3765-8


978-0-7611-3766-5


978-0-7611-3767-2


978-0-7611-3768-9

� $1 million advertising and marketing budget

� 1,000,000-copy combined first printing

� 100-city tour, featuring Drive for the Kids™ BRAIN QUEST Challenge Events, presented by Chrysler

� $25,000 BRAIN QUEST College Tuition Sweepstakes, presented by Chrysler

FOR THE COMPLETE BRAIN QUEST SERIES AND DISPLAY INFORMATION, see pages 36–40.

Over 36 million copies in print!

Ships April

DECK & WORKBOOK PENCIL MIXED FLOOR DISPLAY48-copy mixed floor display: $549.60/$665.10 Can.ISBN: 978-0-7611-5144-9No. 25144

FROM EARLY CHILDHOOD TO GRADE 7

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STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST10 THINGS NOBODY TOLD YOU ABOUT BEING CREATIVE

Austin Kleon

You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That’s the message from Austin Kleon, a young writer and artist who knows

that creativity is everywhere, creativity is for everyone. A manifesto for the digital age, Steal Like an Artist is a guide whose positive message, graphic look and illustrations, exercises, and examples will put readers directly in touch with their artistic side.

When Mr. Kleon was asked to address college students in upstate New York, he shaped his speech around the ten things he wished someone had told him when he was starting out. The talk went viral, and its author dug deeper into his own ideas to create Steal Like an Artist, the book. The result is inspiring, hip, original, practical, and entertaining. And filled with new truths about creativity: Nothing is original, so embrace influence, col-lect ideas, and remix and re-imagine to discover your own path. Follow your interests wherever they take you. Stay smart, stay out of debt, and risk being boring—the creative you will need to make room to be wild and daring in your imagination.

� A fresh, inspiring guide to creativity

� Ten steps, plus exercises and examples to help readers unlock their creativity

� “Brilliant and real and true.”—Rosanne Cash

� 20-city author tour

� National radio satellite tour

STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST

Illustrations throughout; 160 pages; 6" x 6" Paper with flaps: $10.95/$12.95 Can. ISBN: 978-0-7611-6925-3No. 16925Ships: March

Austin Kleon is a writer and artist. He is the author of the found poetry collection, Newspaper Blackout (“brilliant,” New York Magazine), and his work has been featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, PBS NewsHour, The Wall Street Journal, and the art website, 20x200.com. He speaks about creativity and being an artist online for organizations such as SXSW, TEDx, and The Economist. He lives in Austin and online at www.austinkleon.com.

8-copy counter display: $87.60/$103.60 Can. ISBN: 978-0-7611-6954-3No. 26954

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TICKLE TIME!

Board book with die-cut cover; 511/16" x 61/4"Hardcover: $6.95/$8.95 Can.ISBN: 978-0-7611-6883-6No. 16883Ships: February

HARDCOVER

TICKLE TIME!Sandra Boynton

Sometimes kids just need a good tickle. Maybe your child is grumpy, or frustrated, or looking for a little extra attention. Well, we have the cure.

Reach for Tickle Time!—and like magic, everyone’s bright and sunny and giggling again.

Tickle Time! is the twelfth in Boynton’s astoundingly successful Boynton on Board series—the bestselling board books that have over 12.5 million copies in print, and whose top title, Barnyard Dance!, just went back for its 100th printing. Based on the wildly popular song from Boynton’s wildly popular Rhinoceros Tap CD, Tickle Time! is pure irrepressible Boynton, lively in tempo, nimble in rhyme, and filled with irresistible fuzzy cats that cavort from page to page. Plus a few birds, who aren’t the cavorting type. Here’s a book to turn to again and again, because it’s guaranteed to elicit giggles:

If you’re feeling blueand you don’t know what to dothere is nothing like a TICKLE TIMEto make you feel like new.

Whether you tickle high or tickle low, tickle fast or tickle slow, it’s the gitchy-gitchy-goo that makes every-thing worthwhile.

� A new BOYNTON ON BOARD, the phenomenal series with 12.5 million copies in print

� “Tickled by Books” personalized store poster promotion

� Celebrate the pure, uninhibited fun of tickling

� Die-cut cover

� For ages 1–4


� Ships in time for Easter

Sandra Boynton is the bestselling author of Philadelphia Chickens and other musical extravaganzas; the completely original Amazing Cows; the ineffable Grunt; the star-powered One Shoe Blues; and the beloved BOYNTON ON BOARD series. She lives with her husband and four children in western Connecticut.

FOR THE COMPLETE LISTING OF SANDRA BOYNTON TITLES, see pages 44–48, 105.


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THE MOM 100 COOKBOOK100 RECIPES EVERY MOM NEEDS IN HER BACK POCKET

Katie Workman

Introducing the lifesaving cookbook for every mother with kids at home—the book that solves the 20 most common cooking

dilemmas. What’s your predicament: breakfast on a harried school morning? The Mom 100’s got it—Personalized Pizzas are not only fast but are nutritious, and hey, it doesn’t get any better than pizza for breakfast. Kids making noise about the same old lunch? The Mom 100’s got it—three different Turkey Wraps, plus a Wrap Blueprint delivers enough variety to last for years.

Katie Workman, founding editor in chief of Cookstr.com and mother of two school-age kids, offers recipes, tips, techniques, attitude, and wisdom for staying happy in the kitchen while proudly keeping it homemade—because homemade not only tastes best, but is also better (and most economical) for you. The Mom 100 is 20 dilemmas every mom faces, with 5 solutions for each: including terrific recipes for the vegetable-averse, the salad-rejector, for the fish-o-phobe, or the overnight vegetarian convert. “Fork-in-the-Road” variations make it easy to adjust a recipe to appeal to different eaters (i.e., the kids who want bland and the adults who don’t). “What the Kids Can Do” sidebars suggest ways for kids to help make each dish.

� Solving every busy mom’s mealtime dilemmas with 100 delicious, easy, and proudly homemade recipes

� 20 dilemmas with 5 recipe solutions for each, from the 5 best weekday breakfasts to 5 knock-their-socks-off dinner party desserts

� Includes variations, techniques, tips, and shortcuts, and inspired Fork-in-the-Road options—how to keep it simple for the kids and spice it up for the adults

� Over 100 full-color photographs throughout with every recipe photographed



THE MOM 100 COOKBOOK

Color photos; 352 pages; 73/8" x 91/8"Paper: $16.95/$19.95 Can. ISBN: 978-0-7611-6603-0No. 16603Ships: March

Katie Workman is the founding editor in chief of Cookstr.com, the website that features recipes by well-known chefs and cookbook writers. She writes about food and cooking for websites and magazines, including The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, AOL Food, KitchenDaily.com, AARP.com, New York Magazine, The Boston Globe, and more. She sits on the board of City Harvest, New York’s leading food rescue nonprofit, and lives with her husband and two children in New York City.

5-copy counter display$84.75/$99.75 Can. ISBN: 978-0-7611-6948-2No. 26948

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THE BOOK OF

PERFECTLY PERILOUS MATHSean Connolly

M ath rocks! At least it does in the gifted hands of Sean Connolly, who blends middle school math with fantasy to create an exciting adventure in problem-

solving. These word problems are perilous, do-or-die scenarios of blood-sucking vampires (How many months would it take a single vampire to completely take over a town of 500,000 people?), or a rowboat of 5 shipwrecked sailors with a single barrel of freshwater (How much can they drink, and for how long, before they go mad from thirst???). Each problem requires readers to dig deep into the tools they’re learning in school to figure out how to survive.

Kids will love solving these problems. Sean Connolly knows how to make tough subjects exciting—his The Book of Totally Irresponsible Science and The Book of Potentially Catastrophic Science have over 200,000 copies in print—and he brings that same intuitive understanding of what inspires and challenges kids’ curiosity to the 24 prob-lems in The Book of Perfectly Perilous Math. These problems are as fun to read as they are challenging to solve. They test readers on fractions, algebra, geometry, probability, expressions and equations, and more.

Use geometry to fill in for the ship’s navigator and make it safely to the New World. Escape an evil Duke’s executioner by picking the right door—probability will save your neck.

� Vampires, mummies, spies—the thrill of math in 24 dynamic word problems

� By the author of The Book of Totally Irresponsible Science and the award-winning The Book of Potentially Catastrophic Science, with over 200,000 copies in print

� Aligns with the National Common Core Standards in mathematics for grades 5, 6, and 7, covering operations, algebra, fractions, exponents, geometry, abstract reasoning, ratios and proportions, and more

� For ages 10 and up


�National radio satellite tour

THE BOOK OF PERFECTLY PERILOUS MATH

Two-color illustrations; 240 pages; 51/2" x 91/4"Paper over board: $12.95/$14.95 Can.ISBN: 978-0-7611-6374-9No. 16374Ships: February

Sean Connolly has written more than 50 books for children and adults. As the father of three, he is ideally suited to concoct and then explain the workings of these imaginative math problems.

6-copy counter display: $77.70/$89.70 Can.ISBN: 978-0-7611-6951-2No. 26951

BY THE SAME AUTHOR:See page 31.

The Book of Potentially Catastrophic ScienceISBN: 978-0-7611-5687-1No. 15687

The Book of Totally Irresponsible ScienceISBN: 978-0-7611-5020-6No. 15020

ISBN: 978-0-7611-6951-2

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1501 WAYS TO REWARD EMPLOYEESBob Nelson, Ph.D.

“ This book gives readers ideas on how to inspire their employees to deliver the best performance every day—for little or no cost.”—Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos.com

Today more than ever, businesses need fresh ideas to nurture talent and retain employees—enter 1,501 Ways to Reward Employees, thor-

oughly revised, updated, and even more chockablock with ideas than 1,001 Ways to Reward Employees, the groundbreaking national bestseller with over 1.6 million copies in print.

Adapted to meet the needs of an evolving workplace—especially to deal creatively with virtual employees, freelancers and permalancers, international colleagues, and the rule-bending expectations of millennials—its 1,501 low- and no-cost rewards and strategies are drawn from thousands of companies across the globe. Ideas range from the informal (Wells Fargo’s thank-you e-cards) and the offbeat (JS Communications two free “I Don’t Want to Get Out of Bed” Days) to the formal (J. C. Penney “affirms” new managers in a moving ceremony) to the totally nutty (the legendary honor of having your office “sodded”—literally, grassed over—at Microsoft). For bosses, managers, entrepreneurs, small-business owners, consultants—anyone who’s responsible for working successfully in an ever-tougher economy—this is the rewards bible.

� Revised, updated, and 50 percent more idea-filled edition of the 1.6-million-copy business bestseller

� In today’s tough economy, this is needed more than ever—low-cost and no-cost rewards to motivate and keep a productive workforce

� Updated to address the five key trends of the 21st-century workplace, from skilled worker shortage to virtual employees

� Includes special offer for Recognition Pro online recognition system

� 30-city author tour, plus ongoing, yearlong author events and appearances


1501 WAYS TO REWARD EMPLOYEES

576 pages; 6" x 8"Paper: $15.95/$18.95 Can. ISBN: 978-0-7611-6878-2No. 16878Previous ISBN: 978-0-7611-3681-1

Ships: February

Bob Nelson, Ph.D., is president of Nelson Motivation, Inc., founding board member of the National Association for Employee Recognition (NAER), and a bestselling author whose books on management and motivation have sold over 3 million copies and been translated into over 25 languages. Dr. Nelson lives and works in San Diego.

FOR THE COMPLETE LISTING OF BOB NELSON TITLES, see page 100.

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THE TRUCK FOOD COOKBOOK150 RECIPES AND RAMBLINGS FROM AMERICA’S BEST RESTAURANTS ON WHEELS

John T. Edge

I t’s the best of street food: bold, delicious, surprising, over-the-top goodness to eat on the run. And the best part

is now you can make it at home. Obsessively researched by food authority John T. Edge, The Truck Food Cookbook delivers 150 recipes from America’s best restaurants on wheels, from L.A. and New York to the truck food scenes in Portland, Austin, Minneapolis, and more.

John T. Edge shares the recipes, special tips, and techniques. And what a menu-board: Tamarind-Glazed Fried Chicken Drummettes. Kalbi Beef Sliders. Porchetta. The lily-gilding Grilled Cheese Cheeseburger. A whole chapter’s worth of tacos—Mexican, Korean, Chinese fusion. Plus sweets, from Sweet Potato Cupcakes to an easy-to-make Cheater Soft-Serve Ice Cream. Hundreds of full-color photographs and a step-back cover capture the lively street food gestalt and its hip and funky aesthetic, making this both an insid-er’s cookbook and a document of the hottest trend in American food.

� 150 recipes from America’s best restaurants on wheels

� By John T. Edge, five-time James Beard Award nominee

� Celebrates the hottest trend in dining—chefs taking to the streets in trucks and carts

� Over-the-top delicious street food to make at home, including tacos, fries & pies, kalbi beef sliders, fried chicken and waffles, and more



THE TRUCK FOOD COOKBOOK

Four-color photos throughout; 304 pages; 91/4" x 81/2"Paper: $18.95/$22.95 Can.ISBN: 978-0-7611-5616-1No. 15616Ships: March

John T. Edge, a five-time James Beard Award nominee, writes the monthly “United Tastes” for The New York Times. His work for Saveur and other magazines has been featured in seven editions of the Best Food Writing compilations. He runs the Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi. His last book was Algonquin’s Southern Belly: The Ultimate Food Lover’s Companion to the South. Mr. Edge lives with his wife and son in Oxford, Mississippi.

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Step-back cover.

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ARLO NEEDS GLASSESBarney Saltzberg

E very child who wears glasses will know just how Arlo feels, and will feel better because of it. And every parent will want

that child to know that glasses are cool and fun and enable us to do the things we want to do. Take Arlo: He’s a shaggy, free-spirited dog who loves to play catch, until one day he can’t. He can’t see the ball anymore. He needs glasses!

In this inventive, interactive picture book created by Barney Saltzberg, the bespectacled author of Beautiful Oops!, who charms young readers and their parents with a perfect light touch and joyful spirit, kids get to do just what Arlo does to solve his problem. They read an eye chart, look through a fold-out phoropter (that big machine optometrists use), and try on different pairs of glasses—movie star glasses! superhero glasses! mad scientist glasses! And they interact with Arlo as he rediscovers how to be the best ball-catcher in the neighborhood and picks up a new favorite pastime along the way—reading!

One out of five school-age children needs glasses. Arlo will show them just how lucky they are.

� A lovely story every kid who needs glasses will embrace—and that’s 1 out of 5 schoolchildren, over 10 million in all

� An inventive, interactive book with glasses to try on, a phoropter to look through, and more

� By the author of Beautiful Oops! and Good Egg, with 118,000 copies in print



� Event kit with design-your-own specs

ARLO NEEDS GLASSES

Four-color book with pull tabs, pop-ups, and gatefolds; 24 pages; 73/4" x 8"Paper over board: $15.95/$18.95 Can.ISBN: 978-0-7611-6879-9No. 16879Ships: April

Barney Saltzberg is the author of more than 30 books for children, including Beautiful Oops!, Good Egg, and his bestselling Touch and Feel Kisses series, with more than 800,000 copies in print. Additionally, he’s recorded four albums of songs for children. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, two dogs, and a pond full of fish.


Good EggISBN: 978-0-7611-5406-8No. 15406

Beautiful Oops!ISBN: 978-0-7611-5728-1No. 15728

Four-color book with pull tabs, pop-ups, and gatefolds;

Paper over board: $15.95/$18.95 Can.

6-copy counter display:$95.70/$113.70 Can.ISBN: 978-0-7611-6955-0No. 26955

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With pop-ups, pull tabs, and three pairs of glasses.

of glasses—movie star glasses! superhero glasses! mad scientist glasses! And they interact with Arlo as he rediscovers how to be the best ball-catcher in the neighborhood and picks up a new favorite pastime along the

With pop-ups, pull tabs,

(that big machine optometrists use), and try on different pairs of glasses—movie star glasses! superhero glasses! mad scientist of glasses—movie star glasses! superhero glasses! mad scientist glasses! And they interact with Arlo as he rediscovers how to be the best ball-catcher in the neighborhood and picks up a new favorite pastime along the

With pop-ups, pull tabs,

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JUST RIDEA RADICALLY PRACTICAL GUIDE TO RIDING YOUR BIKEEQUIPMENT • HEALTH • SAFETY • ATTITUDE

Grant Petersen

In the same way that Michael Pollan’s slim bestseller Food Rules brought a gust of common sense to the everyday activity of eating, Just Ride is a revelation.

Forget the ultralight, uncomfortable bikes, flashy jerseys, clunky shoes that clip onto tiny pedals, the grinding out of endless miles. Instead, ride like you did when you were a kid—just get on your bike and discover the pure joy of riding it.

A reformed racer who’s commuted by bike every day since 1980, whose writ-ings and opinions appear in major bicycling and outdoor magazines, and whose company, Rivendell Bicycle Works, makes bikes for riders ready to opt out of a culture overrun by racing, Grant Petersen shares a lifetime of unexpected facts, controversial opinions, expert techniques, and his own maverick philosophy. In 87 short, two-to-three page chapters, it covers:

• Riding: Count Days, Not Miles; Corner Like Jackie Robinson; Steer with Your Hips, Shift with Your Legs

• Suiting Up: The Shoes Ruse; Ponchos—the Ultimate Unracer’s Garment

• Safety: #1 Rule—Be Seen; Helmets Aren’t All They’re Cracked Up to Be

• Health and Fitness: Why Riding Is Lousy All-Around Exercise; Saddles Don’t Cause Impotence; Drink When You’re Thirsty—Not Before

Also includes chapters on Accessories, Upkeep, and Technicalities as well as a final chapter titled “Velosophy” that includes the essential, memorable thought: Your Bike Is a Toy—Have Fun with It.

� The pure joy of riding a bike

� Grant Petersen, the cycling world’s most outspoken contrarian, shares facts, opinions, and philosophy

� Covers equipment, accessories, technique, health and diet, exercise, maintenance, and more

� Illustrated throughout with hip, entertaining, and instructive pen and ink drawings



JUST RIDE

Two color; rounded corners; illustrations and line drawings; 256 pages; 41/2" x 9"Paper: $13.95/$16.95 Can.ISBN: 978-0-7611-5558-4No. 15558Ships: April

Grant Petersen is the founder and owner of Rivendell Bicycle Works and writes the Rivendell Reader. His writing and opinions have been featured in major bike and outdoor magazines, including Bicycling, Outside, and Men’s Journal. He’s commuted exclusively by bike since 1980, and lives with his family in Walnut Creek, California. His website is www.rivbike.com.


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THE ANTHOLOGY OF

REALLY IMPORTANT MODERN POETRYTIMELESS POEMS BY SNOOKI, JOHN BOEHNER, KANYE WEST, AND OTHER WELL-VERSED CELEBRITIES

Kathryn and Ross Petras

Required reading from great poets of our time. Drew Barrymore: “Upon Pondering Breasts.” Tom Cruise: “An Exegesis on Psychiatry.” Ann Coulter:

“My Kind of Fun.” And Trump and Sheen and Snooki, John Boehner and Michelle Bachman, Miley and Ke$ha. Hugo Chavez. Even a Zen haiku by Emmitt Smith:

I think it’s his self-confidence in himself that

makes him confident.

With their great gift for curating the inane public utterances of celebrities, politicians, and other self-important loudmouths, Kathryn and Ross Petras offer a timeless collection of “found” poetry—real quotes formatted as verse for hilarious and surprising effect. The quotes, chosen with the taste of authors whose 365 Stupidest Things calendar has over 4 million copies in print, are inher-ently addictive and funny—but turning them into verse intensifies the effect, making the words even more ridiculous, parodies to revel in. And the Petrases take it one step further: organizing the poems by themes, introducing each work with a Norton Anthology mock seriousness, discussing “schools,” and larding the text with footnotes, The Anthology of Really Important Modern Poetry is pure deadpan pleasure. A whiff of Emily Dickinson in Ann Coulter? It’s literary treasure, right under our noses.

� Hilarious “found” poetry by the great bloviators, clueless celebrities, rappers, politicians, and other self-important loudmouths

� By the expert collectors of stupidity, whose 365 Stupidest Page-A-Day Calendar has over 4 million copies sold

� Deadpan parody, down to the gilt letterpress cover: includes genres, classic poetic forms, thoughtful introductions and explications, footnotes, and more

� Ships in time for National Poetry Month

� Advance Reader’s copies

THE ANTHOLOGY OF REALLY IMPORTANT MODERN POETRY

Two-color illustrations; 256 pages; 5" x 8"Paper: $11.95/$13.95 Can.ISBN: 978-0-7611-6782-2No. 16782Ships: February

Kathryn and Ross Petras, sister and brother, are America’s foremost experts in celebrity stupidity, and authors most recently of The Stupidest Things Ever Said Book of All-Time Stupidest Top 10 Lists. Kathy lives in Manhattan and Ross lives with his family in Toronto.

8-copy counter display$95.60/$111.60 Can.ISBN: 978-0-7611-6950-5No. 26950

BY THE SAME AUTHORS:See pages 106, 113.

The Stupidest Things Ever Said Book of All-Time Stupidest Top 10 ListsISBN: 978-0-7611-6591-0No. 16591

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PAPER MADE!101 EXCEPTIONAL PROJECTS TO MAKE OUT OF EVERYDAY PAPER

Kayte Terry

A nnouncing the biggest, best, most innovative book ever on paper craft. Even better, this is not about how to use costly,

artsy paper, but how to turn stuff around the house—magazines and shopping bags, candy wrappers and paint sample cards, wrapping paper, old maps, and paper towel tubes—into stunning jewelry, gifts, home décor, party favors, and much more.

Chances are you’ve seen the author’s cutting-edge work in the windows of Anthropologie, where she is the chain’s merchandis-ing manager. An inveterate crafter who creates projects and styles photo shoots for magazines like Parents and Vogue Knitting, Kayte Terry takes the most versatile of materials and the most basic of crafts (remember snipping valentines out of construction paper?), and creates something completely trans-formative. Turn a sheaf of any white or graph paper into an amazing Scrap Happy Globe Lantern for the dining room. Fashion colored tissue paper into Songbird Votives, leftover raffle tickets into a Prizewinning Bowl, that out-dated pile of holiday catalogs into a picture frame. There’s a necklace made of playing cards, a gum wrapper bracelet, and barrettes made by quilling—a paper technique that goes back to the Renaissance. Every project is photographed in full color, and includes step-by-step illustrations and instructions. Truly a book that shows how to think outside the (cardboard) box.

� The new bible of paper craft

� 101 inspired projects to turn candy wrappers, paper bags, magazines, and newspapers into beautiful jewelry, gifts, home décor, party favors, and more

� By the merchandise manager of Anthropologie

� Four-color photographs, step-by-step illustrations throughout, and downloadable templates

� The recycling bin is the new craft closet


PAPER MADE!

Four-color illustrations; includes downloadable templates; 288 pages; 8" x 9"Paper: $16.95/$19.95 Can. ISBN: 978-0-7611-5997-1No. 15997Ships: March

Kayte Terry is merchandise manager for Anthropologie, expert crafter, and freelance fashion and prop stylist. Her craft projects have appeared in Parents, Quick and Simple, Cutting Edge, Adorn, and HGTV Ideas magazine, as well as top craft websites like Etsy, Design*Sponge, and GetCrafty. Ms. Terry lives in Philadelphia and her website is www.thisisloveforever.com.


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Jennifer S. Holland is the author of Unlikely Friendships, and a senior writer for National Geographic magazine, specializing in science and natural history. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with her husband, two dogs, and dozens of snakes and geckos.

UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIPS FOR KIDSJennifer S. Holland

Based on the New York Times bestseller.


Unlikely FriendshipsISBN: 978-0-7611-5913-1No. 15913

Now Unlikely Friendships is rewritten for younger readers: announcing Unlikely Friendships for Kids, a series of hardcover, gifty chapter books for children, ages seven and up. Here are three collections each with five of the clearest, most interesting stories from the original book, like the monkey and the dove or the leopard and the cow. Chapter books give young readers a strong sense of accomplishment, and these heartwarming animal stories, with their incredible photographs

Unlikely Friendships is a phenomenon. It’s a runaway New York Times bestseller with more than 260,000 copies in

print in less than half a year; a book that struck a chord with media, from CBS Sunday Morning to Parade and USA Today to local papers everywhere; a book with its compelling mes-sage of hope and friendship and differences overcome, that turns up again and again online. Temple Grandin called it “. . . amazing. It shows the power of friendship.”

THE MONKEY & THE DOVE and 4 Other Stories of Animal Friendships

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YORK TIMES

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and inexplicable mysteries of attraction, their focus on friend-ship, love, and the ways that creatures of all different species can find common bonds of affection, will keep kids turning the pages to find out about the unusual ways animals help each other and discover the love of new friends.

Each is a perfect gift for young animal lovers, and a lovely subject to help kids get reading.

� A new series of chapter books for young readers, adapted from the runaway New York Times bestseller, with more than 260,000 copies in print since its June 2011 publication

� The heartwarming gift of friendship for kids

� Three individual books of five stories each, illustrated with incredible photographs

� Rewritten for young readers in a vocabulary they can understand, and with an appropriate level of detail


12-copy counter display(4 each of MONKEY & DOVE, DOG & PIGLET, and LEOPARD & COW): $95.40/$119.40 Can.ISBN: 978-0-7611-7008-2No. 27008

UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIPS FOR KIDS

Four-color throughout; 48 pages; 43/4" x 7"Paper over board: $7.95/$9.95 Can. each

Monkey & DoveISBN: 978-0-7611-7011-2No. 17011

Dog & PigletISBN: 978-0-7611-7012-9No. 17012

Leopard & CowISBN: 978-0-7611-7013-6No. 17013

THE DOG & THE PIGLET and 4 Other Stories of Animal Friendships

THE LEOPARD & THE COW and 4 Other Stories of Animal Friendships

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Barbecue! Bible is a registered trademark of Steven Raichlen and Workman Publishing Inc.

FOR THE COMPLETE LISTING OF STEVEN RAICHLEN TITLES, see pages 84–85.

BEST RIBS EVER100 KILLER RECIPES

Steven Raichlen

Say it loud, say it proud: the Best Ribs Ever. The perfect single-subject cookbook for every meat-loving griller, this book, formerly titled Ribs, Ribs,

Outrageous Ribs, and updated with a menu chapter’s worth of new recipes, delivers a match made in BBQ heaven: 100 lip-smackingest, mouth-wateringest, crowd-pleasingest, fall-off-the-bone recipes for every kind of rib, from the diminutive, succulent baby back to that two-hands-needed Dinosaur beef rib.

Given a fresh new cover, Best Ribs Ever celebrates the ingredient that epito-mizes barbecue and inspires passion, obsession, and almost primal lust in griller and eater alike. And there’s no one better than Steven Raichlen, America’s foremost and bestselling grilling author, to preside over the religion of the rib. Here’s a bone-by-bone guide to choosing, buying, and handling ribs. Eight essential techniques for prepping and cooking. The six great live-fire methods, beginning with direct grilling to spit-roasting. Plus rubbing, saucing, mopping, resting, serving. And then the recipes: Lone Star Barrel Staves. Tandoori Ribs. Buccaneer Baby Backs with Rumbullion Barbecue Sauce. Thai Sweet Chili Ribs. Maui-Style Short Ribs. Grilled Lamb Ribs with Garlic and Mint. Cousin Dave’s Chocolate Chipotle Ribs. Plus the sides—the beans, the slaws, the potatoes—and, new to this edition, menus, like: Grilled Corn Fritters with Maple Syrup followed by Oak-Grilled Country Style Ribs followed by Grilled Lemon Pie.

� Steven Raichlen is barbecue—his books have over 4.7 million copies in print

� Updated and retitled edition of Ribs, Ribs, Outrageous Ribs, with a new cover and new recipes in a new menu chapter

� The pure pleasure and passion of ribs in 100 recipes, including sides, sauces, rubs, and more

� www.barbecuebible.com, Steven Raichlen’s heavily trafficked website, plus home to his line of foods and tools

� 15-city author tour, plus national radio satellite tour

� Ships in time for Father’s Day

BEST RIBS EVER

Two color; 320 pages; 41/2" x 9"Paper: $13.95/$16.95 Can. ISBN: 978-0-7611-6894-2No. 16894Ships: MarchPrevious ISBN: 978-0-7611-4211-9

Steven Raichlen is America’s “master griller” (Esquire). His books have won James Beard and IACP awards and his last, Planet Barbecue!, was a New York Times bestseller. Articles by him appear regularly in The New York Times, Food & Wine, and Bon Appétit, and for the past dozen years he teaches the sold-out Barbecue University, first at the Greenbrier and currently at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. He and his wife live in Miami and on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.


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WORD.144 CROSSWORD PUZZLES THAT PROVE IT’S HIP TO BE SQUARENatan LastForeword by Will Shortz

C reated by Natan Last, a senior at Brown University, three-time intern with Will Shortz, and in 2008 the youngest person to have a puzzle published

in the Sunday New York Times, Word kicks the crossword puzzle squarely into the 21st century for a new generation of puzzle-lovers, replacing fusty crossword-ese with hip cultural references, modern wordplay, and a lively mix of high- and low-brow pop trivia. A Word puzzle begins with the shared knowledge of a literate but not-so-reverent generation, and celebrates the knowing-ness with a deft touch. Your parents’ crosswords make solvers feel smart. Word puzzles make solvers feel smart and cool, getting the references to The Daily Show, Mario Brothers, the Goo Goo Dolls, and a hefty dose of nostalgia (the name of the motel in Psycho). But they also know the core curriculum: Charlotte Bronte’s Jane, Roman generals, Berlioz and von Bismarck, Homer—and not just Homer Simpson.

The puzzles are constructed with all the smarts of a daily Times crossword: themes, interconnected clues, titles that unlock the overall puzzle (solve all the clues and the circle letters will spell out a famous name at Hogwarts). Assisting Mr. Last is a group of five more top “under 25” constructors, all of whom have published puzzles in The New York Times.

� It’s hip to be square: 144 smart crossword puzzles for the next generation

� By the then-youngest puzzle-maker ever to publish a Sunday New York Times crossword and protégé to Will Shortz, who says “the future of crosswords is in good hands.”

� Clues packed with fun cultural references, clever wordplay, puns, references both high- and low-brow

� Arranged by difficulty, levels 1 to 4


WORD.

336 pages; 6" x 8" Paper: $10.95/$12.95 Can.ISBN: 978-0-7611-6755-6No. 16755Ships: February

Natan Last, a senior at Brown University, published his first puzzle in The New York Times in 2006, and in 2008 was the then-youngest-ever puzzle-maker to publish a Sunday New York Times crossword.


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across 1 “Play it, . Play ‘As Time Goes By’”

(“Casablanca” quote) 4 X-men character whose “punk revival” in

the 80s had her sporting a giant white mohawk

9 E’s equivalent, in music 14 Russ Cargill’s org. in The Simpsons Movie 15 “Drove my Chevy to the but the

was dry . . .” 16 “Dulce et ” (literally, “sweet and

useful,” and what Horace thought literature should be

17 “Before He Cheats” singer who won the fourth season of American Idol

20 Did one’s darndest 21 The Avenger, go-cart made with the

combined powers of Arnold and Eugene, on Hey Arnold!

22 Super (N64 predecessor) 23 Where to find the anther, on a flower 25 Actress Ward of The Fugitive 27 Postarrest recitation from the police 33 Mortal Kombat character depicted with

bionic arms and no shirt 34 Sea, in Spain 35 “Peace” 36 ejemplo 37 Mother Mary’s “words of wisdom,” in a

Beatles song 40 “All nature is but ”: Alexander Pope 41 “Lord, ?” (Last Supper query) 43 Burr, to Hamilton

44 Kissing on the street, say: Abbr. 45 Classic novel featuring a spider and a

pig 49 Common Hawaiian name meaning

“heaven” 50 It’s often cleared before a long speech 53 Super Bowl premieres 56 Wraps tightly 59 “Me too!” 60 British business executive and wife of

P.M. David 63 Blue hue 64 Four- (really spicy, as chili) 65 Owed, as library books 66 Frequent patron at “The Drunken Clam” 67 Fairly OddParents protagonist 68 Grads-to-be: Abbr.

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/ But when we are , I feel it too” 3 Grammy-winning Santana/The Project

G&B song with the line “She reminds me of a west side story”

4 Cousin of a fastball 5 Begin, with “off” 6 Egg, biologically 7 Actress Sofer of soaps 8 Gorgon whose looks were petrifying 9 Beethoven composition often shown off

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11 Scar, for one 12 vera 13 Bill & Excellent Adventure 18 Shout often accompanied by record

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Move,” in a Seinfeld episode 31 Banks on the runway 32 Popped a squat 33 Drake’s buddy, on Nickelodeon 36 Photo 37 Satirical Al Capp comic strip set in

Dogpatch, Kentucky 38 It may have a painted nail 39 Numero uno

42 MTV show broadcast from Times Square

44 As such 46 “Jump !” (The Sugarhill Gang album

whose hit song, “Apache,” is danced to by Will and Carlton on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air)

47 Soldier’s helmet, slangily 48 Champ Kind’s catchphrase in

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THE LAND OF DINOSAURS

Full-color die-cut board book; 11 spreads; 33/4" x 51/4" x 29/16"Hardcover: $9.95/$11.95 Can.ISBN: 978-0-7611-6598-9 No. 16598Ships: May

HARDCOVER

THE LAND OF DINOSAURSPeter Lippman

It’s epic—the irresistibly chunky, die-cut Mini House format meets the obsession of dinosaurs. The Land of Dinosaurs expands the bestselling

series, with almost 3 million copies in print, by breaking the conceit—its first flap isn’t a door to a house or vehicle, but a portal back in time to an exotic land.

A tactile treat, so pleasing to hold and flip through, to peer into the die-cut cave and rub fingers along the shape of the dinosaurs, The Land of Dinosaurs is populated with roaring, fighting, swimming, swooping, herding, running dinosaurs, all against a colorful backdrop of jungles, vol-canoes, prehistoric seas, and oozing swamps. At the center, a just-hatched baby dinosaur. But what kind? A fierce Tyrannosaurus Rex? The armor-plated Gastonia, or Ankylosaurus, wielding its clublike tail? The peaceful tree-munching giant Brachiosaurus, or the funny-looking Parasaurolophus, with the ducklike beak and operatic voice?

The book is a quest, as the reader follows the baby dinosaur on its journey of self-discovery. Great fun, an education, a first primer in dinosauriana—it’s a book, it’s a toy, it’s a new land to visit again and again.

� Every child’s favorite subject, now in a MINI HOUSE book

� From the creator of the MINI HOUSE BOOKS and MINI WHEELS BOOKS, with almost 3 million copies in print, combined

� It’s a book, it’s a toy, it’s roaring good fun!


� Safety-tested by ACTS Testing Lab

Peter Lippman is the creator of the MINI HOUSE BOOKS and the MINI WHEELS BOOKS. In addition, he’s written and/or illustrated more than 35 children’s books. He lives with his wife and two cats in New York state.


24-copy mixed counter display: $238.80/$286.80 Can.ISBN: 978-0-7611-7035-8No. 27035

FOR THE COMPLETE LISTING OF PETER LIPPMAN TITLES, see pages 56–57.

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“IS THIS THING ON?” REVISED EDITION

A COMPUTER HANDBOOK FOR LATE BLOOMERS, TECHNOPHOBES, AND THE KICKING & SCREAMING

Abby Stokes“Stokes gives the feeling of a friend explaining it all to you.”

—The New York Daily News

Now updated and revised, the user-friendliest, most reassuring, jargon-free, smartest, and most comprehensive nuts-and-bolts

guide for seniors, who are the fastest-growing demographic among social networks.Abby Stokes is the perfect guide to the digital domain: She’s taught more than

140,000 seniors how to use a computer, and her books—Is This Thing On? and its earlier edition, It’s Never Too Late to Love a Computer—have 135,000 copies in print. In an easy, authoritative, hand-holding way, she covers it all: how to choose, buy, and start using a computer. How to connect to the Internet, sign up for e-mail, and use search engines. Plus, how and why to get digital in the first place: the ins and outs of online shopping, banking, travel planning, dating, research; how to take and share digital photographs and videos; how to discover online communities, and use social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube; the world of apps, online music, and streaming movies; and, importantly, online security and “netiquette.” There’s information on iPads, smartphones—including the Blackberry, iPhone, and Android—and e-readers like Nook and Kindle. A companion website—www.abbyandme.com—plus a Facebook page and Twitter feed provide easy and safe access to this brave new world.

� A complete revision and update of Is This Thing On?, which with its previous edition, It’s Never Too Late to Love a Computer, has over 135,000 copies in print

� Covers everything from buying a computer to using a smartphone, tablet, and social media sites like Facebook and Twitter

� Includes a companion website, Facebook page, and Twitter feed

� For everyone who didn’t grow up with a PC or use one in the office

� 40-city radio satellite tour

� 3-for-50% promotion

Abby Stokes has taught more than 140,000 people, mostly seniors, how to use a computer, privately and through courses at Cooper Union and New York University’s School of Lifelong Learning. She lectures on the topic around the country. Ms. Stokes divides her time between New York City and Niantic, Connecticut.

“IS THIS THING ON?” REVISED EDITION

Two color; illustrations throughout; 448 pages; 7" x 9"Paper: $16.95/$19.95 Can. ISBN: 978-0-7611-6882-9No. 16882Ships: DecemberPrevious ISBN: 978-0-7611-4619-3

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Indestructibles are the books built for the way babies read.

They are 100 percent baby-proof, chew-proof, rip-proof, and drool-proof. Printed on a unique nontoxic, paperlike material that holds up to anything babies can throw at it—gumming, spilling, dragging across the floor—Indestructibles are the little books that could. They now have more than 363,000 copies in print and, at $4.95 each, they are an amazing value—they’re indestructible. And if they get dirty, just throw them in the washing machine or dishwasher.

New for fall are two titles that introduce words for the first time. Baby Faces features baby’s favorite thing: pictures of other babies. It’s a book for parents and children to share together the many moods of a baby.

Baby Babble is a first vocabulary book, featuring baby at the table: spoon, banana, cheese. Baby at play: blocks, teddy bear. Inside baby’s house: lamp, socks, crib. Outside baby’s window: cloud!

INDESTRUCTIBLES™

BABY FACES • BABY BABBLEKate Merritt and Amy Pixton

� Indestructibles are 100 percent baby-proof, chew-proof, rip-proof, and drool-proof—and 100 percent safe for babies

� Indestructibles have more than 363,000 copies in print

� BABY FACES: because babies love looking at other babies

� BABY BABBLE: a first vocabulary book all about baby’s world

� Great value—an indestructible book for only $4.95

� “Beach Books for Babies” wire rack and promotion

Full-color illustrations; 12 pages; 7" x 7"BABY FACES

Paper: $4.95/$5.95 Can.ISBN: 978-0-7611-6881-2No. 16881

BABY BABBLE

Paper: $4.95/$5.95 Can.ISBN: 978-0-7611-6880-5No. 16880

Kate Merritt is a London-based artist who’s worked on numerous children’s magazines and illustrated picture books. Amy Pixton is a mother of triplets, now tod-dlers, who created INDESTRUCTIBLES after her mother-in-law, the artist Kaaren Pixton, began painting murals on Tyvek construction wrap. She lives with her family in Kansas City.

40-copy mixed counter spinner(See order form for details):$198.00/$238.00 Can.ISBN: 978-0-7611-7009-9No. 2700948-copy wire mixed counter display(See order form for details):$237.60/$285.60 Can.ISBN: 978-0-7611-7010-5No. 27010

FOR THE COMPLETE LISTING OF INDESTRUCTIBLES® TITLES, see pages 54–55.

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UP YOUR SCORETHE UNDERGROUND GUIDE TO THE SAT, 2013–2014 EDITION

Larry Berger, Michael Colton, Manek Mistry, Paul Rossi, and guest editor JaJa Liao“ A guerrilla manual to fighting the enemy . . . It takes no prisoners.”

—The New York Times

“ This is big news . . . [Up Your Score] shows sweaty-palmed teenagers how to outsmart the SAT before it outsmarts them.”

—The Boston Globe

W ritten for students by students, Up Your Score is the book kids will actually want to use to help them ace the test. Its four authors and

guest editor—who each achieved perfect or close-to-perfect scores and got into the college of their choice—offer expert advice and proven strategies, laced with an edgy wit.

Kept sharply up-to-date by the guest editor, Up Your Score, with a combined 470,000 copies in print, is a complement—and a reality check—to the institutional reviews by Princeton and Kaplan. It’s the book that injects attitude into the dry busi-ness of test prep, fending off the anxiety of the SAT with peer humor. A rich and lively vocabulary section is filled with examples that kids will relate to. The math section delves into the eight core ways the test covers the subject, plus offers problem-solving techniques. The writing section addresses the 13 most important grammar rules to know. And Up Your Score shows how to “psych out” the test: How to think like the SAT. How to prepare the essay in advance. The best ways to fill in answer circles and other strategies to save precious minutes. Plus, tips for maintaining concentration, why it’s always better to guess than to leave a question unanswered, what to wear on test day, and a recipe for energy-boosting Sweet & Tasty 800 Bars.

� The only guide to the SAT written for students by students

� Guest editor JaJa Liao scored a perfect 2,400 on the SAT and offers up-to-the-minute test-taking strategies

� At $13.95, an eminently affordable test-prep option

� More than 1.6 million students take the SAT every year

� Previous editions have 470,000 copies in print


UP YOUR SCORE, 2013–2014 EDITION

336 pages; 73/8" x 91/4"Paper: $13.95/$16.95 Can.ISBN: 978-0-7611-6884-3No. 16884Ships: June

Larry Berger is a Yale graduate and Rhodes Scholar and the CEO of Wireless Generation. Michael Colton, a Harvard graduate, is a screenwriter and co-editor of ModernHumorist.com. Manek Mistry graduated from Cornell Law School and is in private practice. Paul Rossi is also a Cornell graduate. JaJa Liao applied Early Action to Harvard’s class of 2016.

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