Pleased to meet you!About Fun Books

Painting of a cheerful man typing at a kitchen table piled with books, a dog asleep at his feet

Old-fashioned handbooks for a new kind of trouble

Fun Books started with one question: what would the family handbooks of the 1950s say about today's problems? The answer turned into a bookshelf.

Our first title, The Independent Household, is a straight-faced guide to sixty skills that kept homes running before the power grid. The books that follow keep the same painted pictures and step-by-step pages, and point them at elephants, flying saucers, dinosaurs and sassy appliances.

Every book is a full-color printed paperback, one skill or one silly emergency per page.

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The Fun Books Family Pledge

  1. Every page will be wholesome enough to read at the dinner table.
  2. Every crisis, however silly, gets a calm, step-by-step plan.
  3. Every picture is painted in the warm style of the old magazines.
  4. Every book is printed to order and made to be kept on the shelf.
  5. We will always remember to bring a casserole.
The Fun Books Family