Alfred J Bruey - Jackson, MI (USA):

This book thinks it's smart but it can't even tie its own
    shoes.
This book starts reading itself out loud when you open it. You
    can't read it in public because you bother those around you. Its
    voice drones on and on. Listening to this book helps you fall
    asleep.
This book is not only long, it is boring. On the positive
    side, by the pound it is one of the best buys in
    the book world.
This book is filing a discrimination lawsuit against Mother Nature because, although
    its strong spine allows it to swim the backstroke, it can not
    swim the breast stroke for obvious reasons.
This book would never have sold a single copy if it hadn't
    been mentioned on the Simpsons' show and at a presidential news conference.
   

Sarolina Shen Chang - Canton, Michigan (USA):

This is the book about the second oldest profession. What is
    computer doing in there?
This is a book about fate. People read it whenever Dow
    hit another unforseeable bottom.
This is the book about mail delivery during nuclear war, written by
    the Postal Service Nuclear War Delivery Research Committee which is currently working
    on the no-Saturday-delivery project.
This is a book about memory. I read. I forgot.
    Sentence by sentence, page by page, chapter by chapter.
This book about lonesomeness was awarded to the SURVIVOR

Nina Nye - Sisterdale, Tx (USA):

This book taught a life long lesson
Tis better to give than receive
A free book of poems would be an exception!

Kay McKenzie Cooke - Dunedin, (N. Z.):

This book makes you laugh and shake the bed.
This book only exists in cyberspace. The same page is
    being read at the same time in rooms thousands of miles apart.
If the sound of all the books being dropped right now by
    people falling asleep, was laid end to end, it would cause a
    sonic boom.
There is a book born every two seconds.
Where is this book leading me ? How does it take its
    coffee?

Denise Dunn - ABQ, NM (USA):

This book can't get enough of communing with the other books.
This book hid when the burning came. It is scorched and
    sooty and smells terrible but it can breathe again and be glad.
This book thought such a thing could never happen and when it
    did, well...

Matthew W. Schmeer - St. Louis, Missouri (USA):

This is the book that remained unread on a shelf near the
    bed when I was reading others to lull me with words forming
    on my tongue in sleep.
This is the book I received as gift but returned to the
    store without a receipt that I ended up buying five years later
    on a trip to that store with the friend who gave me
    the book as a gift and remembered.
This is the book with its pages carved out to hide a
    flask while in church.
This is the book I lent to a friend who died in
    a car wreck, her body embracing the steering wheel, the pages flung
    open on the dash.
This is the book. This is the book. This is the book.
    This is the book. This is the book. The book.

Michael Schneider - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA):

This is a book about a man who leans forward as he
    walks and lowers his head so his beard brushes against his chest.
    You can hear him purring from within like a cat. Turn the
    page. Keep turning. See?
This book is pungent like green onions I pull from the garden
    in spring before dinner, the dirt that clings to them rinsed away
    in the sink, white snaky roots wriggling down from the head sliced
    off, a layer of skin peeled away from the shiny stalk. Eat
    t
This book, which points fingers and names names, is not spoken about
    in polite company. It refuses to turn a blind eye. It does
    not avert from the carrion stench of truth. It says Henry Kissinger,
    you are a war criminal. It says Ronald Reagan, you murdere

Lisa Espenmiller - Oakland, California (USA):

This book is a map of hope. This one
casts a spell for sensuousness.
This one openly speaks of wounds while this one,
of lies and secrets.
This book takes you off the map and this one, into the
    streets.

Katherine Borghardt - Ottawa, KS (USA):

Al, if you want us to sign your yearbook just say so!
2 good
2 be
4 got
"Remember all the great times in the Library!"

Ruby Hawkins - Acworth, Ga. (USA):

This book was origionaly found by two brothers in a rattle snake
    den on Taylors Ridge in Chattooga county
The snakes gladly gave up the book for a banana peanut butter
    sandwich
This book was so happy to be rescued it showed the boys
    the end of the rainbow
This book helped dig up the pot of gold and killed the
    wooly booger guarding it
This book was found to be so garbled it was thrown in
    the trash bin