New Releases by Joseph Rosenbloom

An “immersive, humanizing, and demystifying” look at the final hours of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life as he seeks to revive the non-violent civil rights movement and push to end poverty in America (Charles Blow, New York Times). “King comes to life in death—a courage ever so inspiring.” —Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning At 10:33 a.m. on April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., landed in Memphis on a flight from Atlanta. A march that he had led in Memphis six days earlier to support striking garbage workers had turned into a riot, and King was returning to prove that he could lead a violence-free protest. King’s reputation as a credible, non-violent leader of the civil rights movement was in jeopardy just as he was launching the Poor Peoples Campaign. He was calling for massive civil disobedience in the nation’s capital to pressure lawmakers to enact sweeping anti-poverty legislation. But King didn’t live long enough to lead the protest. He was fatally shot at 6:01 p.m. on April 4 in Memphis. Redemption is an intimate look at the last thirty-one hours and twenty-eight minutes of King’s life. King was exhausted from a brutal speaking schedule. He was being denounced in the press and by political leaders as an agent of violence. He was facing dissent even within the civil rights movement and among his own staff at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In Memphis, a federal court injunction was barring him from marching. As threats against King mounted, he feared an imminent, violent death. The risks were enormous, the pressure intense. On the stormy night of April 3, King gathered the strength to speak at a rally on behalf of sanitation workers. The “Mountaintop Speech,” an eloquent and passionate appeal for workers’ rights and economic justice, exhibited his oratorical mastery at its finest. Redemption draws on dozens of interviews by the author with people who were immersed in the Memphis events, features recently released documents from Atlanta archives, and includes compelling photos. The fresh material reveals untold facets of the story including a never-before-reported lapse by the Memphis Police Department to provide security for King. It unveils financial and logistical dilemmas, and recounts the emotional and marital pressures that were bedeviling King. Also revealed is what his assassin, James Earl Ray, was doing in Memphis during the same time and how a series of extraordinary breaks enabled Ray to construct a sniper’s nest and shoot King.

A band of wacky animals, zany dinosaurs, and kooky monsters are all in on the goofiest jokes ever -- and now you will be too!

Presents hundreds of jokes, tongue-twisters, and funny insults.

Riddles, knock-knocks, put-downs, jokes, gags, and groaners: this collection’s a grab bag of humor to make kids hoot and holler! Why shouldn’t you tell a secret to a pig? Because he is a squealer. Why did the orange stop in the middle of the road? It ran out of juice.What word grows smaller when you add two letters to it? Add "er” to short and it becomes "shorter.” Where do pilots keep their personal things? In air pockets. From modern nursery rhymes to kooks and spooks, from "hey, waiter!” to exercising with dumbbells, there’s plenty of belly laughs here to enjoy and share with friends.

This comic collection captures the loony side of everything: morning and nighttime, clothes, work, animals, vacations, the seasons. These wacky jokes and riddles cover a range of topics, from dinosaurs to cars, turning them all into pure fun. Why did the boy put a banana peel next to his bed? So he could slip out of bed in the morning. What do you say to someone who has an egg on his head? The yolk’s on you! A man opened a dresser and a dozen people fell out. Why? Because it was a Missing Persons Bureau. Every one of these hundreds of quips is sidesplitting!

An illustrated collection of tongue twisters for children.

Get silly with school, sports, family, law and order, doctor cracks, smart-guy comebacks, and those all time favorites: knock-knocks.

An illustrated collection of riddles and jokes about school.

An illustrated introduction to knock-knock jokes, grouped by the letter of the alphabet featured in each.

If you're cool enough to say "Sally sells sea shells at the sea shore" over and over again with no problem, get ready to meet your match and to have your tongue tied up in knots! Just wrap your mouth around these twisters: Say this three times FAST: Ike ships ice chips. How many times can you repeat this in 10 seconds?: Loose loops. Plus longer ones that will really test your skills! And, remember--it's more fun when you do it with an audience.

An illustrated collection of hundreds of difficult tongue twisters, arranged alphabetically.

It's dangerous to find over 1,750 riddles in one place, and the silly cartoons throughout this collection only make it harder to stop turning the pages. They're organized into 20 categories to keep you from getting lost (or losing your mind). Still, you can't stop turning the pages as you riddle yourself over money, getting sick, hurling insults, thinking up comebacks, enjoying nature, driving, playing, using computers. Just in time, the last riddle appears: What do joggers say when they leave you? So long�gotta run. 352 pages, 160 b/w illus., 4 3/16 x 5 1/4.

Like junk-food snacks, this biggest little collection of jokes has so many irresistible chuckles that we can't laugh at just one... Tourist (to farmer): Lived here all your life? Farmer: Not yet. Father: Bonnie, please take the dog out and give him some air. Bonnie: Sure, Dad. Where's the nearest gas station? Enjoy jokes about teachers, parents, brothers and sisters, doctors and patients, Martians and earthlings. And groaner book-and-author lists (Sport Injuries by Charlie Hawes; Cookouts Italian Style. Plus tongue twisters, shaggy dogs, first dates, and yes, Waiter, There's a Fly in My Soup jokes. 352 pages, 218 b/w illus., 4 3/16 x 5 1/4.

An illustrated collection of jokes and riddles arranged under such headings as "Going Out To Eat," "Fooling With Schooling," and "He and She."

Hundreds of twisters (mostly one-liners) plus cartoonlike drawings make this a most enjoyable book.

An illustrated collection of jokes and riddles about ghosts, witches, monsters, and haunted houses.

Hundreds of riddles and jokes about getting sick and getting well.

Presents hundreds of riddles and jokes relating to football, baseball, weightlifting, karate, croquet, and other sports.

What would you get if you crossed a duck with a dog? "A ducks-hund." What is brown and greasy and stays in a tower? "The lunch bag of Notre Dame." Kids can never get enough of elephant jokes, shaggy dog stories, and "what do you get if you cross the road?" riddles. So this fun collection will feed their need with more different kinds of puns, insults, nonsense rhymes, fish stories, how-cold-it-was gags, and goofy definitions than any other. Here's a real "silly dilly" What is the first thing a gorilla learns in school? "The Ape-B-Cs." Dozens of drawings by children's favorite Sandy Hoffman add to the hilarity.

A collection of more than 700 riddles and jokes about monsters, ghosts, vampires, mummies and other things that go bump in the night. Grades 5-8.

A collection of the best, worst, and silliest riddles, jokes, and rhymes.

Over 500 knock-knocks, 80 cartoons. Index. "Gr.4-7. Sure to be appreciated by its intended readers."--SLJ. "Helpful resource book for teaching plays on words."--Library Materials Guide, CSI. 128 pages, b/w illus. throughout, 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.

Riddles for children, including "What is green and goes slam, slam, slam, slam?" (A four-door pickle) and "What snack do robots serve at parties?" (Assorted nuts.).