A wonderful book by
Edward De Bono in which
children aged 5-13 are invited
to invent solutions to a number of problems, such as:
...and several more. The results are often insightful, and frequently hilarious
- a solution to
insomnia involves a machine which automatically drops
sleeping pills into the patient's mouth whenever they wake up, and a seven
year-old solves the problem of crime by having police drop 'bad men' out of a
plane into
shark-infested waters. Another crime solver is even more ingenious:
Use pretty girls as decoys. Say a gang has ten members, well ten pretty
girls go off saying 'come on' to each individual member of the gang, then the
girls walk off in different directions, and the gang is separated. The police
then arrest the bad guys who are in a trance.
Human body improvements include recording ears, 'my nose on my legs' and 'more
of most things except fingers and toes'.All solutions are accomanied by the
children's
illustrations. I don't know if this book is still in print, but if
you see it, grab it; it's
priceless.