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Practice counting down from ten with the daring dinos! This busy board book has ten dinosaur-shaped blisters that disappear one by one with the turn of each page. From skateboarding to swimming, there's plenty for little ones to explore!

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And what a reunion it is! Dan Jenkins reunites many of the most memorable and irascible characters from his most memorable and hilarious novels--starting with Semi-Tough. Billy Clyde Puckett, Shake Tiller, T. J. Lambert, Barbara Jane Bookman, Big Ed Bookman, Slick Henderson, Juanita Hutchins, Doris Steadman--the list goes on, and they're all packin' heat. It all begins when Herb's Cafâe--modeled after a Fort Worth landmark renowned for its chi...

Sports Makes You Type Faster presents a remarkable new collection of essays by one of America's best-known and best-loved sportswriters. Served up with the acerbic wit that is Dan Jenkins's hallmark, the essays range over the whole world of sports, taking aim at owners, players, fans, and franchises alike--with results that will make you laugh out loud. Winner of the 2012 PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing, Dan Jen...

And what a reunion it is! Dan Jenkins reunites many of the most memorable and irascible characters from his most memorable and hilarious novels--starting with Semi-Tough. Billy Clyde Puckett, Shake Tiller, T. J. Lambert, Barbara Jane Bookman, Big Ed Bookman, Slick Henderson, Juanita Hutchins, Doris Steadman--the list goes on, and they're all packin' heat. It all begins when Herb's Cafâe--modeled after a Fort Worth landmark renowned for its chi...

Presents a remarkable new collection of essays by one of America's best-known and best-loved sportswriters. Served up with the acerbic wit that is Dan Jenkins's hallmark, the essays range over the whole world of sports, taking aim at owners, players, fans, and franchises alike - with results that will make you laugh out loud.

This beloved sports classic from Sports Illustrated writer Dan Jenkins is a hilarious love-hate celebration of golfers and their game.

From the author of Semi-Tough, the hilarious continuing adventures of Billy Clyde Puckett—injured football player and TV sports commentator—featuring his wife, the former Barbara Jane Bookman, and his old friend, Shake Tiller.

Decades before it saturated the airwaves, Dan Jenkins and Bud Shrake actually invented reality TV, and skewered it into a comic novel that was way ahead of its time. Frank Mallory is a big gun at one of the four major networks. After Frank struggles to fill all his number-four network's prime-time slots he is forced him to create a show called "Just Up The Street", which is meant to entertain ordinary Americans with the "real" lives of other o...

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In His Ownself, Dan Jenkins takes us on a tour of his legendary career as a sportswriter and novelist. Here we see Dan's hone his craft, from his high school paper through to his first job at theFort Worth Press and on to the glory days of Sports Illustrated. Whether in Texas, New York, or anywhere for that matter, Dan was always at the center of it all-hanging out at Elaine's while swapping stories with politicians and movie stars, covering e...

Hailed by Kirkus Reviews as "some of the most entertaining sportswriting around", these 93 stories, profiles and columns sparkle with the irreverent style that has made Dan Jenkins America's favorite sportswriter. Jenkins is also the author of the bestsellers Semi-Tough and Life Its Ownself.

With his uniquely American novel Semi-Tough, Dan Jenkins earned national praise--and laughter that still resounds. This non-stop, hilarious novel reaffirms Jenkins' reputation as "a national treasure" (Houston Post) as it chronicles one year in the life of irreverent sportswriter Jim Tom Pinch.

In Unplayable Lies, Dan Jenkins takes us on a tour of the links as only he can do it. Here, Dan delves into the greatest rounds of golf he's ever seen, the funniest things said on a golf course, the rivalries on tour and in the press box, the game's most magical moments-and its most absurd. Filled with well-known characters like Tiger Woods, to others like Titanic Thompson-gambler, golf hustler, accused murderer, legendary storyteller-Unplayab...

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Introduced in Dan Jenkins's previous uproarious novel of the pro golf tour, The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist, Bobby Joe Grooves is now forty-four and still without a win in a major championship. A student of golf lore, Bobby Joe is well aware that only a small group of stars have ever won a major at his age or older, and among them are such immortals as Nicklaus, Boros, Irwin, and Trevino. It's now or never for Bobby Joe, ...

Made into a hilarious and timeless film starring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, and Jill Clayburgh, and recently ranked No. 7 on Sports Illustrated's Top 100 Sports Books of All Time, Semi-Tough is Dan Jenkins's masterpiece and is considered by many to be the funniest sports book ever written. Originally published in 972, the novel follows the outsized adventures of Billy Clyde Puckett, start halfback for the New York Giants, whose team ha...