For everyone who loves playing with language and can't resist a witty poem or turn of phrase, here is a little gem of a book guaranteed to tickle your funny bone. Just try reading one of these twimericks out loud in front of a roomful of friends and you are guaranteed to laugh - and have everyone else laughing with you! 'Twimericks, The Book of Tongue-Twisting Limericks", which features Lou's snappy illustrations and outrageously absurd, difficult-to-read-aloud twimericks (tongue twisters in the form of limericks), is a real plow-creaser - whoops, that's crowd-pleaser! Move over charades, there's a new party game in town! Sure to be passed around at kids parties - not to mention a few cocktail parties - and in classrooms and libraries everywhere, "Twimericks' is infectious fun for everyone and is good for all ages.

Author Biography

Lou Brooks is a renowned illustrator and comic artist whose work ranges from updating the "little guy in the top hat" logo design for the game Monopoly to, most recently, the '50s pulp-fiction-style illustrations for The Book of Totally Irresponsible Science. He has also designed and illustrated covers for Time and Newsweek, and in the 1970s created a comic strip for Playboy that achieved a cult following. He lives with his wife in a cabin in the woods several hours north of San Francisco.