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The Book of Time Outs: A Mostly True History of the World's Biggest Troublemakers

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In this absolutely hilarious book, children and parents alike are treated to a "Who's Who?" list of troublemakers, beginning all the way back with the Carthaginian General, Hannibal, and ending with Rosa Parks, who got a time out for doing something that wasn't even really wrong!

Deb Lucke presents each character, from Christopher Columbus to Johann Sebastian Bach to Babe Ruth, as people who made mistakes -- and had to pay the price by getting a time out! There's a lesson to be learned in each short story, whether it be the importance of telling the truth or the fact that it's a bad idea to be a marauding pirate, and it's all done with humour and in a way that's easy for kids to understand.

This isn't a book that tells youngsters it's okay to do something they know is wrong, but it is a book that tells them that everyone makes mistakes. And, sometimes, the only way to make up for those mistakes is with a good old-fashioned time out!

This is one title that's sure to be a winner for all ages!

Reviewed by: Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius"

The Book of Time Outs is a lively examination of bad behavior to which we humans are so inclined. I wish my mother had given me this to read during a time out instead of the Bible.

Ranging from ancient history to the present, this wonderfully comical book with its superbly hilarious illustrations present episodes from the lives of famous people who needed a "time out" when they did things which upset others. Not meant entirely to be a history lesson, it is instead a book that introduces to children the notion that even famous and powerful people have had to have "time outs" for behaving badly. Such a refreshing notion for today's world, and perhaps required reading for every military dictator, president and prime minister.