Louis Phillips

Author of The Random House Treasury of Best-Loved Poems

97+ Works 1,230 Members 10 Reviews

About the Author

Louis Phillips has written & edited numerous books for children & adults, including "The Random House Treasury of Humorous Quotations" & "The Random House Treasury of Light Verse". He teaches creative writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. (Bowker Author Biography)

Includes the names: Louis Phillips, Louis ed. Phillips, Compiled by Louis Phillips

Works by Louis Phillips

The Smallest Stegosaurus By Lynn Sweat (1993) — Author — 231 copies

Ask Me Anything About the Presidents (Avon Camelot Books) (1992) 97 copies

The Latin Riddle Book: Aenigmatorum Liber Latinorum (1988) 67 copies

263 Brain Busters: Just How Smart are You, Anyway? (Novels Series) (1985) 65 copies

Sex: The Most Fun You Can Have Without Laughing and Other Quotations (1990) — Editor — 62 copies

Haunted House Jokes (1987) 47 copies

Alligator Wrestling and You: An Impractical Guide to an Impossible Sport (An Avon Camelot Book) (1992) 31 copies

How do you get a horse out of the bathtub? : profound answers to preposterous questions (1983) 19 copies

The Upside Down Riddle Book (1982) 19 copies

Chicken Run Joke Book (Movie tie-ins) (2000) 19 copies

Wackysaurus: Dinosaur Jokes (Puffin Chapters) (1991) 18 copies

Monster Riddles (Easy-to-Read, Puffin) (1998) 16 copies

Yogi, Babe, and Magic: The Complete Book of Sports Nicknames (1994) 12 copies

The TV Almanac (1994) 11 copies

Random House Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1996) 11 copies

Random House Treasury of Humorous Verse (1999) 11 copies

Going Ape: Jokes From the Jungle (A Laugh-Aloud Puffin) (1988) 10 copies

The Random House Treasury of Light Verse (1995) 8 copies

Way Out!: Jokes from Outer Space (A Laugh-Aloud Puffin) (1989) 8 copies

Invisible Oink: Pig Jokes (A Laugh-Aloud Puffin) (1993) 7 copies

The Brothers Wrong and Wrong Again (1979) 7 copies

Chicken Run: Cracked Up Joke Book (1752) — Author — 7 copies

Funky facts (1980) 7 copies

Ask Me Anything about the Dinosaurs (An Avon Camelot Book) (1997) 7 copies

Ask Me Anything About Monsters (1997) 7 copies

How Do You Lift a Walrus (1988) 6 copies

Man Who Stole the Atlantic Ocean (1969) 6 copies

Baseball Rules Illustrated (1982) 5 copies

Women in Sports: Records, Stars, Feats, and Facts (1979) 5 copies

Ask Me Anything About Baseball (Avon Camelot Book) (1995) 5 copies

Keep 'Em Laughing (1996) 4 copies

Million Dollar Potato (1991) — Author — 4 copies

Chicken Run: Joke Book (2000) 4 copies

The animated thumbtack railroad dollhouse & all-around surprise book, evening edition (1975) 4 copies

The Ballroom In Saint Patrick's Cathedral (2014) 4 copies

School Daze: Jokes Your Teacher Will Hate (A Laugh-aloud puffin) (1994) 4 copies

The Joke-A-Day Joke Book (1983) 3 copies

Willie Shoemaker (Scu-2) (1988) 3 copies

The Treasury of Best loved Poems, Second Edition (1995) 3 copies

American Elegies (2000) 3 copies

The Most Challenging Quiz Book Ever (1996) 3 copies

The Envoi Messages (1985) 3 copies

A Dream of Countries Where No One Dare Live: Stories (1993) 3 copies

How to Tell Your Parents Are Aliens (1994) 3 copies

The Continuing Education Guide: The CEU and Other Professional Development Criteria (1994) 3 copies

That More Things Move (1978) 2 copies

Baseball: Records, stars, feats, and facts (A Handy book) (1979) 2 copies

Alchemy Da Vinci: A Bizarre Comedy (2013) 2 copies

Kops (1987) 2 copies

Catalog of Earthly Pleasures 2 copies

The domain of small mercies (2017) 2 copies

Arbuckle's Rape (1976) 2 copies

The world by sevens : a kid's book of lists (1981) 2 copies

Oops! (1982) 2 copies

Football, Records, Stars, Feats, and Facts (A Handy Book) (1979) 2 copies

The Great American Quiz Show Scandal: A play (1979) 2 copies

The Death of the Siamese Twins and Other Plays (2007) 2 copies

The Immortals (1975) 1 copy

Riddlegrams (1989) 1 copy

All That Glows Sees: Poems 1 copy

All the Natural Cruelty of Things 1 copy

Celebrations and Bewilderments 1 copy

Manifest by Fire 1 copy

R.I.P.: A Poetic Sequence (2003) 1 copy

Octopus Applause 1 copy

Zodiac (DVD) (2013) 1 copy

How Wide the Meadow: Poems (2019) 1 copy

Emancipation of the Encyclopedia Salesman 1 copy

Phillips' Quarterly #1 1 copy

Must I Weep for the Dancing Bear, and Other Stories (2012) 1 copy

Random House Best-Loved Poems 1 copy

Word puzzlers 1 copy

Louis Phillips Loose Leaf: The Whackiest School Notebook Yet (1990) — Author — 1 copy

The Moose in the Typewriter 1 copy

Become the Torches 1 copy

A Catalogue of Earthly Pleasures and Other Poems (1973) 1 copy

The Insect Trials (1972) 1 copy

Canary in the Mine (2012) 1 copy

The Goalie: A one-man play with voices (1977) 1 copy

The Audience Book of Theatre Quotations (2007) 1 copy

Dead Stars: a play (1986) 1 copy

The Time, the Hour, the Solitariness of the Place (2002) 1 copy

Into the Well of Knowingness (2000) 1 copy

Mr. Magoo's Farsighted Puzzle Fun (Pretzel Book) (1981) 1 copy

Frankenstein Virtuoso 1 copy

Quick Flicks: Clerihews (2013) 1 copy

Fist (1974) 1 copy

Words 18 1 copy

Honduras & Other One-act Plays (2011) 1 copy

Plays by Louis Phillips (1995) 1 copy

Late Night in the Rain Forest (2009) 1 copy

God Have Mercy on the June Bug 1 copy

Hollywood Scandals (2012) 1 copy

Domain of Silence/Domain of Absence: New & Selected Poems, 1963-2015 (2015) 1 copy

The Jolly Green Track: a play 1 copy

Is it Something I Said? 1 copy

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Associated Works

Last Drink Bird Head : A Flash Fiction Anthology for Charity (2009) — Contributor — 29 copies

West Coast Plays 2: Outstanding New Plays from the Coast (And; Goethe: Eine Fragment; The Last of the Marx Brothers'… (1978) 2 copies

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1942
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Places of residence: New York, New York, USA
Education: City University of New York
Occupations: children's book author
playwright
poet

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Reviews

Must I Weep for the Dancing Bear, and Other Stories by Louis Phillips

Nice short stories, all about growing up, but often through the loss of something, be it an idea, a wrong choice, sometimes death, loss of relationships, loss of pride...etc. Gives the overall book a rather dark, but real tone.

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writingvampires | Jan 30, 2023 |

263 Brain Busters by Louis Phillips

A collection of mathematical and verbal brain-teasing questions interspersed with "brain vacation" jokes.

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BLTSbraille | Oct 16, 2021 |

Ask me anything about the presidents by Louis. Phillips

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lcslibrarian | 1 other review | Aug 13, 2020 |

The Treasury of Best loved Poems, Second Edition by Louis Phillips

I enjoyed the poetry collection due to the varied and numerous poems. Works such as "Patterns," "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls," and "The Charge of the Light Brigade" all stood out to me as interesting works. Furthermore, the book is broken up into several sections that provide a wide variety of poetry dramas, which keeps the book varied in its offerings. Many of the poems were excellent, yet others did leave a little bit to desire. Several poems were difficult to decipher in meaning and I was honestly left a little clueless compared to the other poems. Regardless, I enjoyed the vast majority of the anthology and found several new poems that I really enjoyed.… (more)

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Ross_Rodgers | Sep 26, 2016 |

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