Books You Love Because They're Offbeat

 

            Here are some great read-aloud gift books, or choices for summer diversions, selected because they're unusual, funny, weird or otherwise distinctively different:

 

            Math Curse, Jon Scienszka and Lane Smith

 

            Errata, A Book of Historical Errors, Herman Alles

 

            I Spy, an Alphabet in Art, Lucky Mickelthwaite

 

            Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross-Sections, Stephen Biesty

 

            Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge, Mem Fox

 

            Trouble With Trolls, Jan Brett