I have been a little busy this week, so I thought I would blog about a fun coffee table book. They have "Weird" books for many of our 50 states, and a few Weird U.S. books. I have flipped through a few of the different state books and find them fun. These are books that are great for something you can just flip through, and pick and choose what you want to read. Sure, you can read them front to back too. They are full of fun facts about each state and not the kind of stuff you find in your normal history book. Weird Oklahoma has lots of great pictures and fun tales, some fact and some fiction. Being a book about Oklahoma, it also has some interesting Native American legends. This is a great book if you're looking for a different kind of travel guide. It also is great for its many legends and ghost stories. My nine year old especially likes the scary ghost stories (he has hit that age where he likes to scare himself). I enjoy reading it for the history and learning about the off the main road attractions. I think there is a little something for everyone in this book, there is even UFO stories and a section called Bizarre Beasts. There are some gruesome murder stories in this book though, since that would also be a part of any state's history, so for younger children it would be a parent monitored book. Parents might want to look through the more child friendly sections like Personalized Properties or Roadside Oddities. This is a book that would be fun to pick out a few strange facts to cover or teach about Oklahoma, so it is like a textbook for weird and strange facts. I think it is worth a look, and for adults as a coffee table book it could bring up some interesting conversations.
