Weird & Wacky Titles

What's better than a great title to pique your interest in a book? Here are some of our stranger titles:

J Fiction

The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Edwards
Math Rashes and Other Classroom Tales by Douglas Evans
The Chicken Gave It to Me by Anne Fine
There's an Owl in the Shower by Jean Craighead George
The Chameleon Wore Chartreuse by Bruce Hale
The Celery Stalks at Midnight by James Howe
Maniac Monkeys on Magnolia Street by Angela Johnson
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth by E. L. Konigsburg
The Tattoed Potato and Other Clues by Ellen Raskin
The Ink Drinker by Eric Sanvoisin
Squids Will Be Squids by Jon Scieszka
Snot Stew by Bill Wallace
The Flying Flea, Callie and Me by Carol Wallace
Old People, Frogs and Albert by Nancy Hope Wilson

JH Fiction

The Great American Elephant Chase by Gillian Cross
The Ear, The Eye and The Arm by Nancy Farmer
Fruit Flies, Fish and Fortune Cookies by A. C. LeMieux
The Mona Lisa of Salem Street by Jan Marino
Is Everyone Moonburned But Me? by Stella Pevsner
Who Put That Hair in My Toothbrush? by Jerry Spinelli
Marshmallow Muscles, Banana Brainstorms by Karen Taha
Never Trust a Dead Man by Vivian Vande Velde

J Non-Fiction

Lima Beans Would be Illegal J 305.23 LIM
Duppy Talk J 398.2097292 HAU
Fur, Feathers, and Flippers J 591.5 LAU
It's Disgusting and We Ate It! J 641.3 SOL
Snuffles and Snouts J 811.008036 SNU
Vip Quips by Vip J 818.5207 PAR

This list was prepared by Youth Services at St. Charles Public Library
(630) 584-9390

February 2001