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title = "K is for Knifeball: An Alphabet of Terrible Advice - Avery Monsen, Jory John"
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date = 2020-01-26
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["books", "reviews", "fun", "avery monsen", "jory john", "3 stars",
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"kids", "2020 challenge"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14553581-k-is-for-knifeball):
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From the authors of the breakout bestseller All my friends are dead. (more
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than 175,000 copies sold) and in the humorous vein of Go the F**k to Sleep
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comes a laugh-out-loud collection of bad advice that turns the children's
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alphabet book on its head. Adorable illustrated characters lead readers down a
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path of poor decision-making, and alphabetical, rhyming couplets offer
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terrible life lessons in which O is for opening things with your teeth, F is
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for setting Daddy's wallet on fire, and R is for Raccoon (but definitely not
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for rabies). With plenty of playfully disastrous choices lurking around every
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corner, this compendium of black humor may be terrible for actual children,
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but it's perfect for the common-senseless child in all adults.
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What would happen if you mix "Please Go To Fucking Sleep" with an ABC book? "K
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is for Knifeball".
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It's a "for-kids-but-not-kids" kinda of book: For example, "D is for Drifter,
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which you should call to get in when your parents aren't at home" and "F is
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Food, which you should give for the drifter living under your bed" (or
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something around those lines)... Pretty much what "Go To Fucking Sleep" does.
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Surely one wouldn't recite the book to a kid anyway, and being really short,
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I'm not sure about the re-readability of it. Still, it is somewhat amusing.
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