Only in America! The Weird and Wonderful 50 States author-Marjorie Newman [NY]: Regan Books/HarperCollins [1999]

[NY]: Regan Books/HarperCollins [1999]

Her ideal classroom is nature itself

a photo of the author as a teen rapper

Cruikshank’s decision to rework the text of these stories – even going so far as to change the morals of the tales – earned him a rather disdainful letter from his previous collaborator Charles Dickens

about finding your team and finding yourself

Only in America! The Weird and Wonderful 50 States author-Marjorie Newman [NY]: Regan Books/HarperCollins [1999]Discover unique, strange, funny, record breaking, and downright unbelievable facts about every state in the USA. A state by state compendium of weird laws, quirks, one offs, and unusual records only to be found in the wonderfully wacky US of A. Only in America! explores the strangest claims to fame and the most unusual place names every state has to offer. Visit the city of Dinosaur, drop by the Pizza Museum, find out where it is illegal to feed a pig