Crashed, Smashed, and Mashed

by Karen Salmansohn

Dynamic, detailed full-color photographs bring into crisp focus the day-to-day adventures of life in a salvage yard, and includes a glossary of junkyard terms.

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Karen Salmansohn is a bestselling author (with 2 million books and courses sold), leading behavioral change expert, and columnist for Oprah and Psychology Today, as well as the founder of the popular personal development site NotSalmon.com, which has a vibrant community of 1.5 million followers. Her most recent book is "Your To-Die-For Life: How to Maximize Joy and Minimize Regret . . . Before Your Time Runs Out." She’s been sparking transformations in individuals and companies for a few decades and is passionate about digging deep and finding fascinating insights, tools, and studies from all areas of life, including psychology, Eastern and Western philosophy, neuroscience, quantum physics, and more.

She began writing “self-help for people who wouldn’t be caught dead doing self help” in 1999 with the bestseller How To Be Happy Dammit—the very first personal development book of its kind to have a feisty title, edgy humor, and stylish interior design, which paved the way for self-help authors to write irreverent personal development books. Since then, she’s written many bestsellers, including The Bounce Back Book and Think Happy. Now she’s excited to pioneer the mortality awareness movement by illuminating life’s most avoided conversation—death—and reminding others to live more bravely.

Reviews

[Melanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great for the cars enthusiasts. My preschooler son found it interesting to learn about the different parts of the wrecked cars and see them being taken apart. We found the text/explanation of the welding buggy poor and somewhat confusing. The pictures for most of the text were very appropriate.

[The Brothers · Rating 4 out of 5]

Asher (4 yo) loves this book. It's a photographic journey of what happens to a crashed car when it goes to junk yard heaven. The story is really very factual and almost textbook like. The photos are pretty good - though you can tell the story is a bit dated by the computer screen shot!