Silly Jokes About Monsters (Silly Joke Books)($23.82Value)

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Get ready to laugh about monsters! These monster jokes will have you telling them again and again; even if you’re scared silly! Funny photos combined with hilarious jokes will have young readers laughing out loud. Gr 2-4-New, clean jokes can be hard to find sometimes. Many joke books rely on old chestnuts that can make little sense to 21st-century kids. The author of these books does a great job crafting dozens of knock-knock jokes, riddles, and classic two-line jokes that avoid outdated phrases (like "old chestnut") and culturally specific idioms, making this a great choice for readers learning figurative language and exploring homonyms and double meanings, not to mention English language learners. One activity per book turns jokes into action-with no pranks! Funny photo illustrations keep the pages attractive and lively. Just a few (one to three) jokes per page mean that pages will turn almost by themselves. VERDICT A nice update to your stock of inoffensive joke books.α(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. New, clean jokes can be hard to find sometimes. Many joke books rely on old chestnuts that can make little sense to 21st-century kids. The author of these books does a great job crafting dozens of knock-knock jokes, riddles, and classic two-line jokes that avoid outdated phrases (like "old chestnut") and culturally specific idioms, making this a great choice for readers learning figurative language and exploring homonyms and double meanings, not to mention English language learners. One activity per book turns jokes into action--with no pranks! Funny photo illustrations keep the pages attractive and lively. Just a few (one to three) jokes per page mean that pages will turn almost by themselves. VERDICT A nice update to your stock of inoffensive joke books.--Paula Willey, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltiimore "School Library Journal" Michael Dahl is the prolific author of the bestselling Goodnight, Baseball picture book and more than 200 other books for children and young adults. He has won the AEP Distinguished Achievement Award three times for his nonfiction, a Teacher's Choice award from Learning magazine, and a Seal of Excellence from the Creative Child Awards. Dahl currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.