The first book in the Bad Ideas Book Club, aptly named How to Eat an Airplane, explains: If you want to eat an airplane, there are a few things you should know. The truth is, most airplanes are too large to eat by yourself, so if you want to eat an airplane, you should have a party. It’s fact-based picture book fiction at its most absurd!
By crossing two unrelated topics—dinner etiquette and jet plane mechanics—How to Eat an Airplane creates an unexpected and absurdly funny experience for young readers. Inspired by the true story of Michel Lotito, who from 1978 to 1980 ate an entire Cessna 150 airplane and holds the Guinness World Record for Strangest Diet, the book covers everything from setting the table with forklifts and toasting with engine oil to fastening your seat belts at the table and taking a nice stretch in between courses—preferably on the airplane’s wings. 
There’s a disclaimer included for anyone who believes the book is an actual guide—as well as four pages of fascinating and relevant airplane facts. Perfect for precocious readers and airplane lovers as well as teachers and parents looking to enjoy something unique and fun.
The Bad Ideas Book Club: Where the best ideas are bad ideas.

How to Eat an Airplane (Bad Idea Book Club)

Children's Books

Pearson, Peter

Literature & Fiction

Harpercollins

“Plenty of visual comedy [and] the central dump truck is cute to boot.” —BCCB
“A story that is sometimes hilarious and always absurd. A treat for vehicle-loving kids.” —Booklist
“An engaging combination of the serious and the silly.” —Publishers Weekly
From the creators of the absurdly funny picture book How to Eat an Airplane comes a new spin on adopting a pet...truck.
This vehicular spin on pet adoption features an unlikely pet: a dump truck. Kids will not only laugh, but learn. 
Just like a new pet, a new dump truck is a heap of responsibility, but it’s also loads of fun. Just remember: If you take care of it well, your dump truck will be your forever friend.
Includes tips on: selecting the perfect leash at the hardware store; whether to feed your truck diesel or regular; cleaning up your truck’s messes at the dump; socializing with other trucks, and much more.
Peter Pearson and Mircea Catusanu’s follow-up to How to Eat an Airplane is clever fun for pet lovers and truck aficionados—whether their pet (or truck) barks, meows, or honks.

How to Walk a Dump Truck

Humor

For more than a thousand years, Eastern Christians have used their hands and hearts to create icons, proclaiming God’s reality in a visible–and breathtakingly beautiful–way. This ancient art is enjoying a renewed interest in the West, as people of faith create icons and use them to meditate on mysteries for which there are no words. A Brush with God is a guide to painting icons and using them in prayer. Written with warmth and energy, it describes the history of icons and examines why they’ve been a spiritual tool for so many centuries. Written from a uniquely Western perspective, the book guides artists–from novices to professionals–through the process of icon painting, using traditional techniques but employing contemporary materials. Included are eight full-color plates of the artist’s icons.

A Brush with God: An Icon Workbook

Arts & Photography

Religious

Morehouse Publishing

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<li>Introduces readers to a more advanced level in icon development, exploring more complex imagery and skills</li> <li>Step-by-step instructions for painting icons, from original drawings through finished product</li> <li>Includes eight full-color plates of the author's original icons</li> </ul> This is the sequel to the authors previous work, A Brush with God, for advanced beginners, intermediate, and advanced iconographers. It presents greater detail and instructions for creating entirely new icons. One major feature of the new book is the full-page sketches that artists can photocopy and use as the basis of their own icons, providing a unique and much-requested resource. Chapters and topics include: <ol>
<li>Introduction and contemporary reflections on iconography, spirituality, and technique.</li> <li>Highlighting folds on full-length figures, including black and white renderings of draped legs, arms, and torsos.</li> <li>Architectural and landscape renderings in Byzantine iconography, including background shadow and highlighting techniques, plus inverse perspective.</li> <li>Festal icons, involving multiple figures, landscapes, architecture, furniture, vegetation, and animals.</li> <li>Construction of heads, figures, and analysis of whole compositions, sacred geometry and proportion.</li> </ol>

Another Brush with God: Further Conversations about Icons

Religion & Spirituality

Dun Laoghaire - Kingstown

Architecture

The O'Brien Press

Between the Mountains and the Sea

History

Europe

Charting the history of Ireland's capital city, this book looks into the heart of Dublin, street by street, area by area-from its origins and growth as a medieval walled city and metamorphosis in the 18th century into an elegant Georgian capital, to its recent resurgence and new-found prosperity. Examined in detail are Dublin's many different faces-the city's outdoor markets; the Custom House Docks development of shiny, glazed office blocks; Smithfield, with its chimney converted to a viewing tower and its striking row of giant steel masts; Temple Bar, now a cultural and artistic center; and Grafton Street, Dublin's fashionable shopping district for the last 200 years.

The Heart of Dublin: Resurgence of an Historic City

Travel

Peter Pearson's Decorative Dublin is a feast for the eye, celebrating the city's decorative surfaces in ironwork, brickwork, stone, glass, plaster, its fanlights, doors and windows. The city is full of decorative things whose main function is to delight. Ancient, Georgian, Victorian and modern features are all here. At certain periods everything, even the most practical and mundane coal-hole cover or boot scraper, was decorated, leaving a rich heritage on buildings, pavements, walls, roofs, in gardens and interiors. The book also includes the fascinating stories of crafts and craftworkers.

Peter Pearson's Decorative Dublin

New edition of this unique book, fully revised and updated. Includes a 32-page colour introduction highlighting changes since the first edition. Dublin city is blessed in its location, between the splendid Dublin/Wicklow mountains and the beautiful Dublin bay, and in this setting the hinterland of the city has grown over the centuries into a rich heritage of inner and outer suburbs as important as the city centre itself. In this book, Pearson tells of the geographical, economic and social history of this area, its famous inhabitants, its agricultural development, methods of transport, sport and recreational aspects, but most of all he details the architectural heritage of the county which is studded with riches from many different eras, and with the most desirable homes in the country. Illustrated with over 700 photographs, old prints, maps, etchings.

Between the Mountains and the Sea: Dun Laoghaire-rathdown County

OʼBrien Press

Dún Laoghaire: Kingstown (Urban heritage series)

O'Brien Press Ltd

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