New Releases by Lenore Skenazy

Your guide to American pop culture, pet peeves, peeved pets, annoying trends, aggressive toys, smiles in photos, men in nylons, women at a conference on the feminization of meat snacks, Mr. Clean’s love life, Dirty Dancing’s secret, and the heartbreak of Hairanoia.*

FREE RANGE KIDS has become a national movement, sparked by the incredible response to Lenore Skenazy?s piece about allowing her 9-year-old ride the subway alone in NYC. Parent groups argued about it, bloggers, blogged, spouses became uncivil with each other, and the media jumped all over it. A lot of parents today, Skenazy says, see no difference between letting their kids walk to school and letting them walk through a firing range. Any risk is seen as too much risk. But if you try to prevent every possible danger or difficult in your child?s everyday life, that child never gets a chance to grow up. We parents have to realize that the greatest risk of all just might be trying to raise a child who never encounters choice or independence.

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon meets The Book of Useless Information via Mad Libs in this fun new twist on classic trivia games. "WHO''S THE BLONDE THAT MARRIED WHAT''S-HIS-NAME whose last name sounds like a BIRD, but then they split, and she was in that SUPER-HIP MOVIE that totally revived the career of the DANCING SCIENTOLOGIST before he played a woman in that MUSICAL by the FUNNY BALTIMORE ECCENTRIC?" The answer''s on the tip of my tongue! Everyone''s been there-groping for a name or a title and then, in desperation, using roundabout phrases and weird associations in a frantic effort to remember the ENGLISH LADY who wrote all those mysteries, like the ONE ON THE TRAIN with that BELGIAN DETECTIVE and whenever you play that BOARD GAME with the knife in the conservatory and the gun in the billiard room and that COLONEL, it feels like you''re in one of her books? These "tongue-tipper" moments affect everyone. Now they can be put to good use with this innovative pop culture game that will help trivia buffs and useless-information fans remember all the things they didn''t even realize they''d forgotten.

Mom, you deserve more than just a day!I want to say thank you in a memorable waySo pick out some coupons -- sappy or fun,(I''ll even do number 31).

An inspirational collection of coupons that are perfect for one''s Valentine sweetheart includes fifty-two creative and entertaining IOUs for "gifts" that can be enjoyed anytime during the year. Original. 75,000 first printing.

A holiday songbook for the entire dysfunctional family features a wide array of Christmas song parodies that includes "Grandpa''s Drunk," "O Holy Fight," and "Silent Wife."