DISPLAY: You Must Be Joking

DISPLAY : You Must Be Joking

The Monster Fun Joke Book
By Sean Connolly

Windmill Books, 2012. 32 p
A collection of jokes about monsters, including vampires, skeletons and ghosts.

The Laugh Stand
By Brian Cleary

Millbrook Press, 2008. 48 p.
A fun book full of word plays, puns, anagrams, daffynitions, Tom Swifties, and more.

Simms Taback Great Big Book of Spacy Snakey Buggy Riddles
By Katy Hall

Illustrated by Simms Taback Viking, 2008. 32 p.
A classic collection of fun and whacky riddles.

The Science Zone: Jokes, Riddles, Tongue Twisters &“Daffynitions”
By Gary Chmielewski

Norwood House Press, 2008. 24 p.
100 Science themed jokes, with writing exercises and tips on how to write your own jokes.

Goofy Jokes & Giggles
By Charles Keller
Illustrated by Dave Garbot
Sterling Pub. 2001. 96 p.
One in a series of jokes and riddles books that can be found in the informational section 818.54.

School Jokes
By Joseph Rosenbloom

Illustrated by Steve Harpster
Sterling Pub. 2004. 48 p.
Get ready to go back-to-school with collection of silly school jokes.

Great Book of Riddle & Jokes
By Joseph Rosenbloom
Illustrated by Sandford Hoffman

Sterling Pub. 1987. 85 p.
This hilarious collection features more kinds of jokes, riddles, puns, insults, nonsense rhymes, fish stories, how-cold-was-it gags, and goofy definitions.

Dinosaur Jokes
By Pam Rosenberg

Illustrated by Mernie Gallagher-Cole
Child’s World, 2011. 25 p.
How do dinosaurs pay their bills? With Tyrannosaurus checks! What should you do if a dinosaur sneezes? Why, get out of the way, of course! These are just two of the dinosaur jokes that will have you laughing and rolling on the floor until your stomach is, well, saurus.

More Really Silly Jokes
By Cyl Lee

Abdo Pub. 2005. 23 p.
Easy to read jokes for the youngest comedians.

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Funny Farm by Mark Teague 2009

There are things I liked about Mark Teague's newest book, Funny Farm , and things I didn't like. Where should I start? I'll do the "didn'ts" first. The illustrations show animals personified. Well, some of the animals are. The main characters, Edward, and his farm family relatives, all dogs, are humanized. They stand upright, do farm chores, eat at a table, wear clothes, knit (yes, with paws) and sleep in beds. Most everybody else on and around the farm, who are also animals, act like animals. They are outside, roll in mud, live in the barn, and require care from their owners. It struck me the most on the page spread where there are pigs playing in puddle in the rain and Edward, a black and white boxer, watches from inside the house. I thought "You're a dog! Go play with them!" But, alas, he can't, seeing as how he goes through his entire visit to the farm wearing a suit and red bow tie. Another picture that bothered me was the maple syrup pa...

Review: Super Boba Cafe

Super Boba Café By Nidhi Chanani New York: Amulet Books, 2023. Comics. 215 pages. 14-year-old Aria is excited to spend her summer in San Francisco getting quality time with her Nainai. She loves helping at her grandmother's Super Boba Café. But she can't help but notice that her grandmother is acting strange and secretive. She refuses to let Aria into the kitchen at all and she disappears at the same time each night without telling Aria where she goes. Meanwhile, Aria is eager to drum up more business for Super Boba Café. She gets a major windfall when the shop cat, Bao, surprises them by having kittens, and Aria realizes this is a major social media opportunity. She knows this will help Nainai's shop, but she is apprehensive to get back on social media after a terrible cyberbullying experience she had back home. As the shop starts to get busier, Nainai is more and more anxious about her secret project. This prompts Aria to investigate with help from her Nainai's neighb...

Plain Kate

Plain Kate by Erin Bow Scholastic, 2010. 314 pgs. Fiction Katerina Svetlana is named after her mother, who died giving birth. Her father, Piotr the woodcarver, calls her plain Kate and she is soon known as Plain Kate, after the butcher's witticism, because she is "plain as a stick." But her father calls her Kate, my star. Piotr teaches his daughter to carve and she is on her way to becoming a master when her father dies of a strange sleeping sickness that plagues her town and the country round about. In a magical land, Kate has no magic but her skill. Still, she is so good her neighbors think her a witch and drive her away, but not before a real witch comes along and she trades him her shadow for the promise that she won't have to travel alone. He gives her a talking cat. Kate falls in with gypsies who also find reason to hurt and abandon her and she is rescued by the witch who takes her upriver in a terrible quest to avenge his dead sister and bring her back from...

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