amusements

Presents a guide to humor, and provides information and instruction on creating a stand-up comedy routine, drawing comic strips, pulling practical jokes, and clowning around.

Contains a collection of brain teasers and bogglers, games and puzzles, activities, and interesting treats to make designed to relieve boredom in children.

Learn how to train a frisbee dog, be a cartoonist, start your own business, and much more.

Provides instructions for playing one hundred traditional games from countries around the world, each with a note on where the game originated, grouped by similarities.

Examines the lives of children in the Middle Ages, looking at different types of medieval families, and discussing the care of babies, toys and games, education, holidays, fairs and festivals, and other topics.

Using materials found around the house, this book provides step-by-step instructions for completing eleven fun projects, including a paper boat, a balloon rocket, a hovercraft, a water bridge, and butter.

Explores ways people had fun in America between the seventeenth century and the mid-twentieth, describing children's games and toys in several eras and amusements enjoyed by adults.

Lists ninety-seven things for teens to do or learn before leaving high school, looking beyond school and homework to such adventures as taking a road trip, and includes tips on friendship, dating, and independence.

Presents area-by-area information for travelers to Paris, including details on its history, landscape, sites to see, lodging, and restaurants, and provides color photos, maps, and cutaways throughout.

Traces the development of the inventions, toys, and indoor games that have constituted and transformed home entertainment over the years.