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Richard Lederer and Stan Kegel tell the fascinating stories of the origins and customs of our major holidays, including Easter, Passover, Cinco de Mayo, Independence Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
Best-selling author and world-class punster Richard Lederer presents the scariest and silliest spectacle of monsters ever gathered together in a single book.
A rare book of language fun and skill for children 9-13.
Children 9-13 are invited to step right up to a whirling, twirling, swirling three-ring circus of letter play.
Super Funny Animal Jokes is designed for readers 8-11 years young, who love animals and humor.
Wild & Wacky Animal Jokes is designed for readers 8-11 years young, who love animals and humor.
Hilarious jokes about animals, from aardvark to zebra, for children 8-12.
Hilarious jokes about animals, from aardvark to zebra, for children 8-12.
Animal Cracker Uppers Jr. is designed for readers 7-8 years young, who love animals and humor.
Richard Lederer and Stan Kegel tell the fascinating stories of the origins and customs of our major holidays, including Easter, Passover, Cinco de Mayo, Independence Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Both authors have been elected International Punster of the Year, so, of course, they also provide side-splitting jokes and riddles about each holiday. Works for children and grown-ups.
Sidesplitting jokes, puns, and puzzles are unleashed in this festive collection of quips for all of the major U.S. holidays. Each celebrated day from New Year’s to Christmas is afforded a separate chapter, organized in calendar order. Class clowns and junior high school comedians will uncover a bevy of vocabulary-enhancing humor and wholesome witticisms, such as Where was the Declaration of Independence signed? At the bottom. Enhanced by lively illustrations, each section also offers fun and fascinating origin stories and customs, making this a mirthful introduction to understanding modern-day celebrations.
Best-selling author and world-class punster Richard Lederer presents the scariest and silliest spectacle of monsters ever gathered together in a single book. The 1,000 jokes, 80 illustrations, 60 poems, and 20 creepy creatures are guaranteed to make both kids and groan-ups laugh out loud!
How do you make a skeleton laugh? You tickle its funny bone. What’s black and white and dead all over? A zombie wearing a tuxedo. What has six legs and flies? A witch riding with her cat on a broomstick.
Featuring over 1,000 drop-dead funny jokes, riddles, and poems about scar, slimy, slithery slobbery sooky creatures, Monsters Unchained! is the funniest monster book you will ever read. Best-selling author Richard Lederer has written for both kids and groan ups.
Don’t ever play ping pong with King Kong.
Don’t ever take blood tests with Dracula.
Don’t you dare give a wedgie to Frankenstein.
Your ending will be quite spectaculah!
A rare book of language fun and skill for children 9-13. Homographs, homophones, and spoonerisms, with goofy games, and lots of chances for kids to create wacky jokes and puzzles of their own. Created by Richard Lederer, the International Punster of the Year.
As one frog said to the other: “Time’s fun when you’re having flies!”
Children 9-13 are invited to step right up to a whirling, twirling, swirling three-ring circus of letter play in The Circus of Words. They will thrill to the dancing alphabet, starring anagrams, palindromes, pangrams, kangaroo words, and much more!
Language skills will fly through the air with the greatest of ease as kids join in The Circus of Words. Children of all ages are delighted by anagrams, palindromes, acrostics, alliteration, riddles, and puns, yet few books on wordplay are addressed to middle-schoolers. This creative and challenging activity book shows kids how to juggle letters to become ringmasters of wordplay. “The Shrinking Spotlight” shows how larger words become smaller words when certain letters are removed. “Clown Cars” introduces the idea of words hiding within words, and “The Acro Bat” and “Silver Spoonerisms” show off letter clusters that change from one word to another. The whole bandwagon is here, enabling kids, who are natural language enthusiasts, to cavort through that endless entertainment, the English language.
For readers 8-11 years young, Super Funny Animal Jokes is designed for children who love animals and humor. Inside its pages are more than 500 animal jokes that are guaranteed to make readers howl, twitter, yip, and yelp with lots of laughter.
How do you know when it’s raining cats and dogs? When you step in a poodle. Hilarious jokes about animals, from aardvark to zebra.
Everybody loves animal jokes: Duck jokes quack you up. Porcupine jokes are to-the-point. Elephant jokes are worth the weight. Skunk jokes are real stinkers, and kangaroo jokes are best by leaps and bounds.
The co-authors, Richard Lederer and Jim Ertner, have both been elected International Punster of the Year, and Jim McLean’s delightful illustrations add to the fun.
How do you know when it’s raining cats and dogs? When you step in a poodle. Hilarious jokes about animals, from aardvark to zebra, for children 8-12.
Wild & Wacky Animal Jokes is designed for readers 8-11 years young, who love animals and humor. Inside its pages are more than 500 animal jokes that are guaranteed to make readers howl, twitter, yip, and yelp with lots of laughter.
Everybody loves animal jokes: Duck jokes quack you up. Porcupine jokes are to-the-point. Elephant jokes are worth the weight. Skunk jokes are real stinkers, and kangaroo jokes are best by leaps and bounds.
The co-authors, Richard Lederer and Jim Ertner, have both been elected International Punster of the Year, and Jim McLean’s delightful illustrations add to the fun.
For readers 8-11 years young, Rip Roaring Animal Jokes is designed for children who love animals and humor. Inside its pages are more than 500 animal jokes that are guaranteed to make readers howl, twitter, yip, and yelp with lots of laughter.
How do you know when it’s raining cats and dogs? When you step in a poodle. Hilarious jokes about animals, from aardvark to zebra.
Everybody loves animal jokes: Duck jokes quack you up. Porcupine jokes are to-the-point. Elephant jokes are worth the weight. Skunk jokes are real stinkers, and kangaroo jokes are best by leaps and bounds.
The co-authors, Richard Lederer and Jim Ertner, have both been elected International Punster of the Year, and Jim McLean’s delightful illustrations add to the fun.
For readers 8-11 years young, Cleverly Comical Animal Jokes is designed for children who love animals and humor. Inside its pages are more than 500 animal jokes that are guaranteed to make readers howl, twitter, yip, and yelp with lots of laughter.
How do you know when it’s raining cats and dogs? When you step in a poodle. Hilarious jokes about animals, from aardvark to zebra.
Everybody loves animal jokes: Duck jokes quack you up. Porcupine jokes are to-the-point. Elephant jokes are worth the weight. Skunk jokes are real stinkers, and kangaroo jokes are best by leaps and bounds.
The co-authors, Richard Lederer and Jim Ertner, have both been elected International Punster of the Year, and Jim McLean’s delightful illustrations add to the fun.
For readers 7-8 years young, Animal Cracker Uppers Jr. is designed for children who love animals and humor. Inside its pages are more than 500 animal jokes that are guaranteed to make readers howl, twitter, yip, and yelp with lots of laughter.
Celebrating one of children’s favorite forms of comedy, this witty wordplay collection provides a lively array of animal-inspired amusement. Beginning with a dictionary of jokes and riddles, dozens of different species are highlighted in alphabetical order. The subsequent section is arranged by classic clusters from knock-knock jokes and rhymes to quips overheard in a restaurant. Mixing vocabulary-enhancing humor with fun-filled facts about the animal kingdom, young readers will delight at zany, zoological insights coupled with engaging illustrations.
Everybody loves animal jokes: Duck jokes quack you up. Porcupine jokes are to-the-point. Elephant jokes are worth the weight. Skunk jokes are real stinkers, and kangaroo jokes are best by leaps and bounds.
The co-authors, Richard Lederer and Jim Ertner, have both been elected International Punster of the Year, and Jim McLean’s delightful illustrations add to the fun.
Welcome to the website woven for wordaholics, logolepts, and verbivores. Carnivores eat meat; herbivores eat plants and vegetables; verbivores devour words. If you are heels over head (as well as head over heels) in love with words, tarry here a while to graze or, perhaps, feast on the English language. Ours is the only language in which you drive in a parkway and park in a driveway and your nose can run and your feet can smell.