| You Must Be Joking!: Lots of Cool Jokes, Plus 17 1/2 Tips for Remembering, Telling, and Making Up Your Own Jokes Contributor(s): Brewer, Paul (Author), Krull, Kathleen (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0812626613 ISBN-13: 9780812626612 Publisher: Cricket Books OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2003 Annotation: Children love to be funny and to swap cool jokes. All of the classic joke formats -- jump jokes, knock-knocks, riddles, visual puns, and many more -- are included and grouped by themes that reflect childrens's interests and lives including technology, monsters, aliens, families, school, and silly book, movie, and song titles. Each chapter ends with a "half-joke," so that readers can test their growing skills by making up a punch line. Full-page drawings by Paul Brewer accompany each section, and spot art throughout the book punctuates the jokes with visual humor. The 17 1/2 tips at the end of the book help the reader to develop confidence and a personal style of telling jokes. Also included are guidelines for writing funny jokes. Some of the author's favorite lines submitted by readers will be posted on youmustbejoking.net. This collection of over 200 jokes and silly art will appeal to the class clown and stand-up performer in every child. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 818.540 |
| LCCN: 2002013926 |
| Series: Robert (Cricket Books) |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 5.9" W x 8.4" (0.64 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In addition to the jokes, cartoonist and artist Paul Brewer provides insights into what makes a joke funny, why we love to laugh and make others laugh, how to be more successful in doing that, and lots of great tips on how to remember jokes, how to tell them, and even how to invent your own. Each chapter ends with a half-joke, so that readers can test their growing skills by making up a punch line to fit the situation in the set-up of the joke. There's no right answer, so kids can challenge themselves and each other to write the funniest joke. All of the classic joke formats are included, along with the author's suggestions for mastering each type. Sections are accompanied by full-page cartoons, and spot art throughout the book punctuates the jokes with visual humor. The 17 1/2 tips at the end of the book offer lots of help to the reader in developing confidence and a personal style of telling jokes, as well as nuts-and-bolts guidelines for writing funny jokes. The last ?1/2 tip? is an illustration for which the reader can write a punch line. |