Billy's Book by Terry Bisson
As of 2020, Terry Bisson's wonderful volume, Billy's Book is back in three editions:
Text-only paperback, color illustrated paperback, and illustrated ebook.
From Transreal Books.
The new editions supercede the 2011 versions.
And, sorry, there's no longer a free PDF version available.
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Cover by Lisa Roth.
Book summary:
True crime for kids. Or is it the happy childhood you never had? Thirteen tales. A wry, fantasy children's book to make adults laugh. Reminiscent of such greats as James Thurber and Lemony Snicket. Penned by SF troublemaker Terry Bisson, and illustrated by transreal cyberpunk Rudy Rucker.
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Author Terry Bisson.
Here's our first three buy links for Billy's Book: True Crime for Kids.
(1) Text-only paperback on Amazon. The text-only paperback is also other online stores.
(2) Ilustrated ebook on Amazon.
(3) Ilustrated ebook on Apple Books, B&N, Kobo, etc. Universal ebook link.
Billy after the ants ate him...
The book is also available as a large-format kids picture book. Fourth buy link:
(4) Billy's Picture Book. Large color-illustrated paperback on Amazon.
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Billy's Picture Book cover and interior illos by Rudy Rucker.
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Idealized image of St. Rudy in his cell.
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Go git one! Or the Withc will come for you.
And, yes, her name is supposed to be spelled WITHC. [See T. Bisson, op. cit.] |