Wonder Book of Fun

by Graham Rawle

Prepare yourself for a surreal excursion into the lost world of picture puzzles. With Pythonesque wit, Rawle has devised dazzlingly imaginative-well, frankly, bizarre-illustrations, situations, and stories that all pose a riddle or problem. Consult the solutions at the back of the book at your own risk. Color illustrations.

Genres: Humor

64 pages, Paperback

First published October 31, 1994

About the author

Graham Rawle was a British writer and collage artist whose visual work incorporates illustration, design, photography and installation. His weekly Lost Consonants series appeared in the Weekend Guardian for 15 years (1990–2005). He produced other regular series which included ‘Lying Doggo’ and ‘Graham Rawle’s Wonder Quiz’ for The Observer and ‘When Words Collide’ and ‘Pardon Mrs Arden’ for The Sunday Telegraph Magazine and 'Bright Ideas' for The Times.

Reviews

[Siskiyou-Suzy · Rating 3 out of 5]

What a strange book. I enjoyed it because I enjoy brainteasers and the unique and intriguing layout of this was quite fun. But once it again it leaves me frustrated at the variety of things included -- there are puzzles that one cannot really even do, such as rearrange pieces of something to make whatever. But the pieces are simply printed on the page. Am I supposed to trace the pieces to complete the puzzle? It's frustrating. There is also more than one "paradox" in here in which there is not really any answer.

Many of them were quite fun, though!