Bruce Lansky

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  • Bibliography:
    40 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 1991
  • Latest Book:
    October 2014
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Full Series List in Order

Girls to the Rescue

1 - Happily Ever After (Sep-1995)
2 - Just a Girl (Sep-1996)
3 - Hidden Courage (Apr-1997)
4 - Girls to the Rescue, Book #4: Tales of Clever, Courageous Girls from Around the World (Apr-1998)
5 - Where There's Smoke, There's Fire! (Sep-1998)
6 - Danger! Thin Ice (May-1999)
7 - Stormy Flight (Nov-2000)

Multi-Author Series List

Fairytale Retellings: Rapunzel

Newfangled Fairy Tales, Book #2 (Sep-1998)

Book List in Order: 40 titles

  • Kids Pick the Funniest Poems

    Betcha laugh!This is one of the most popular collections of funny poetry for kids ever published. It’s a classic because it’s the first collection of poems selected by kids! It includes clever creations from some of the most popular names in chil...

  • The New Adventures of Mother Goose

  • Girls to the Rescue Book #1

    In most heroic tales, a helpless young lady waits around for a prince to rescue her. But the spunky girls in this entertaining series are much too busy saving the day to await Prince Charming. These adaptations and original stories from around the wo...

  • Happily Ever After

    Girls to the Rescue - 1

    In most heroic tales, a helpless young lady waits around for a prince to rescue her. But the spunky girls in this entertaining series are much too busy saving the day to await Prince Charming. These adaptations and original stories from around the wo...

  • Girls to the Rescue Book #2

    In most heroic tales, a helpless young lady waits around for a prince to rescue her. But the spunky girls in this entertaining series are much too busy saving the day to await Prince Charming. These adaptations and original stories from around the wo...

  • Just a Girl

    Girls to the Rescue - 2

    In most heroic tales, a helpless young lady waits around for a prince to rescue her. But the spunky girls in this entertaining series are much too busy saving the day to await Prince Charming. These adaptations and original stories from around the wo...

  • Hidden Courage

    Girls to the Rescue - 3

    In most heroic tales, a helpless young lady waits around for a prince to rescue her. But the spunky girls in this entertaining series are much too busy saving the day to await Prince Charming. These adaptations and original stories from around the wo...

  • Newfangled Fairy Tales

    This collection of ten fairy tales puts a new spin on classic stories and themes. The Three Bears invade Goldy's home because their forest home is being stripped to build a motorway; King Midas is a workaholic banker; and a frog princess kisses a han...

  • Newfangled Fairy Tales, Book #1

    This collection of ten contemporary fairy tales puts a delightful new spin on classic stories and themes. King Midas is a workaholic banker who would rather play with his money than attend his son's Little League baseball games. The Big Bad Wolf is r...



  • Girls to the Rescue, Book #4: Tales of Clever, Courageous Girls from Around the World

    Girls to the Rescue - 4

    In most heroic tales, a helpless young lady waits around for a prince to rescue her. But the spunky girls in this entertaining series are much too busy saving the day to await Prince Charming. These adaptations and original stories from around the wo...

  • Girls to the Rescue Book #5

    In most heroic tales, a helpless young lady waits around for a prince to rescue her. But the spunky girls in this entertaining series are much too busy saving the day to await Prince Charming. These adaptations and original stories from around the wo...

  • Newfangled Fairy Tales, Book #2

    Fairytale Retellings: Rapunzel

    This collection of ten contemporary fairy tales--the second in the critically acclaimed series--puts a delightful new spin on classic stories and themes. Michelle Koszlowski desparately wantes to be a princess until her wish comes true and she discov...

  • Where There's Smoke, There's Fire!

    Girls to the Rescue - 5

    In most heroic tales, a helpless young lady waits around for a prince to rescue her. But the spunky girls in this entertaining series are much too busy saving the day to await Prince Charming. These adaptations and original stories from around the wo...

  • Danger! Thin Ice

    Girls to the Rescue - 6

    In most heroic tales, a helpless young lady waits around for a prince to rescue her. But the spunky girls in this entertaining series are much too busy saving the day to await Prince Charming. These stories from around the world inspire readers to be...

  • If Pigs Could Fly... and Other Deep Thoughts

  • Girls to the Rescue Book #7

    In most heroic tales, a helpless young lady waits around for a prince to rescue her. But the spunky girls in this entertaining series are much too busy saving the day to await Prince Charming. These stories from around the world inspire readers to be...

  • Stormy Flight

    Girls to the Rescue - 7

    In most heroic tales, a helpless young lady waits around for a prince to rescue her. But the spunky girls in this entertaining series are much too busy saving the day to await Prince Charming. These stories from around the world inspire readers to be...

  • If Kids Ruled the School

    If Kids Ruled the School contains 50 giggle-inducing poems about school, covering everything from homework and tests to school lunches and detention. The book contains poems by Jack Prelutsky, Bruce Lansky, Kenn Nesbitt, Brod Baggert, Linda Knaus, Te...

  • My Dog Ate My Homework!



  • My Teacher's in Detention: More Kids' Favorite Funny School Poems

    This book delivers 45 hilarious poems about school that cover everything from homework and tests to detention and school lunches. Well-known poets Bruce Lansky, Kenn Nesbitt, and Robert Pottle -- plus many more great Giggle Poets -- wrote these gems....

  • Girls Can Too: Tales of Clever, Courageous Girls from Around the World

  • Home Safely

  • Saving the Day

  • Real Friends

  • Tinkle, Tinkle Little Tot

    The funniest and most motivating toilet-training book ever! It contains 17 funny songs and rhymes parents can use to coax kids into the bathroom, and the accompanied CD of songs will make them love to sing along! Toddlers learning to potty train will...

  • Peter, Peter, Pizza-Eater: And Other Silly Rhymes

  • I Hope I Don't Strike Out! and Other Funny Sports Poems

  • Mary Had a Little Jam And Other Silly Rhymes

    These original nursery rhymes recount the latest adventures of Jack and Jill, Humpty Dumpty, Old King Cole, Old Mother Hubbard, Little Boy Blue, Little Bo-Peep, Yankee Doodle, Georgie Porgie, Peter Piper, and other best-loved Mother Goose characters....

  • New Fangled Fairy Tales Book #1: Classic Stories With a Funny Twist

    This collection of ten contemporary fairy tales puts a delightful new spin on classic stories and themes. King Midas is a workaholic banker who would rather play with his money than attend his son's Little League baseball games. The Big Bad Wolf is r...



  • Classic Stories With a Funny Twist

    This collection of ten contemporary fairy tales puts a delightful new spin on classic stories and themes. King Midas is a workaholic banker who would rather play with his money than attend his son's Little League baseball games. The Big Bad Wolf is r...

  • My Teacher's In Detention

    This book delivers 45 hilarious poems about school that cover everything from homework and tests to detention and school lunches. Well-known poets Bruce Lansky, Kenn Nesbitt, and Robert Pottle -- plus many more great Giggle Poets -- wrote these gems....

  • The Best of Girls to the Rescue Girls Save the Day

    The 25 most popular stories about clever and courageous girls from around the world! In most fairy tales, the helpless girl waits around for a prince to rescue her. But the girls featured in the Girls to the Rescue series' seven books are not only sm...

  • Fishing for Trouble

    In most heroic tales, a helpless young lady waits around for a prince to rescue her. But the spunky girls in this entertaining series are much too busy saving the day to await Prince Charming. These adaptations and original stories from around the wo...

  • Lion on the Prowl

    In most heroic tales, a helpless young lady waits around for a prince to rescue her. But the spunky girls in this entertaining series are much too busy saving the day to await Prince Charming. These adaptations and original stories from around the wo...

  • Age Happens

    A gift of laughter for your aging friends and relatives (or comic relief for yourself). Here are the funniest quotes and cartoons about growing older by Ellen DeGeneres, Bill Cosby, Chris Rock, Woody Allen, George Burns, Billy Crystal, Garrison Keill...

  • Free Story "The Girl Who Wanted to be a Princess" from Newfangled Fairy Tales

  • If I Ran the School: 24 funny school poems

    If you’ve ever considered playing sick, had a hard time getting started on your homework, thought your teacher was on your case, or wondered how many days were left until summer vacation, this collection of funny school poems is for you.Homework Wo...

  • Early Birdy Gets the Worm

    This Story is Told in Pictures… so children 3 to 6 can “read” the pictures and enjoy the story. Waking up early one morning, Early Birdy watches Mother Birdy catch a worm. Inspired, Early Birdy wants to catch one too. But catching a worm isn...

  • Monkey See, Monkey Do

    This Story is Told in Pictures… so children 3 to 6 can “read” the pictures and enjoy the story. Ooops! The zookeeper accidentally left the door to the monkey house unlocked. Curious to explore the zoo, a little monkey named Scout sets out to...



  • Polar Brrr's Big Adventure

    This Story is Told in Pictures… so children 3 to 6 can “read” the pictures and enjoy the story. Join Polar Brrr on his big adventure to deliver a very important package. Watch him slide down a glacier, swim through icy water and outsmart a p...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Bruce Lansky has published 40 books.

Bruce Lansky does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Polar Brrr's Big Adventure, was published in October 2014.

The first book by Bruce Lansky, Kids Pick the Funniest Poems, was published in December 1991.

Yes. Bruce Lansky has 1 series.
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