You Must Be Joking Book

Children love to be funny and to swap cool jokes. In You Must Be Joking, all of the classic joke formats — jump jokes, knock-knocks, riddles, visual puns, and many more — are included and grouped by themes that reflect children's interests and lives including technology, monsters, aliens, families, school, and silly book, movie, and song titles.

According to Booklist: "Brewer offers this not just as a joke book but as a primer for budding comedians.  The last chapter has several tips for joke telling... Sprightly ink-and-wash illustrations extend the fun."Kid’s illustrator and author Paul Brewer designed and wrote this unique joke compendium and introduction to doing all things comedic.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 Brewer accompany each section, and spot art throughout the book punctuates the jokes with visual humor.

The 17 ½ 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. As the School Library Journal praises "this is simply a collection of darn good jokes with a dash of appended advice... Jokes should rate a solid chuckle on the Laugh-O-Meter, with a few rising to hearty guffaw." This collection of over 200 jokes and silly art will appeal to the class clown and stand-up performer in every child.

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