Fowl Chicken Jokes to Tickle Your Funny Bone

February 15, 2015
Grades 2-4 The Funniest Bone Animal Jokes series picks up the baton of that tried-and-true mainstay of middle-grade recesses all over the planet: the groan-worthy joke. The series design is not especially inspiring: nonglossy pages with various bits of clip art and anthropomorphic illustrations from a variety of sources. But it's safe to say that these gray pages will soon be colorfully spattered with food particles from kids' yuk-yukking. Each title is rather impressively focused upon a certain type of animal and then divides that even further into four-page chapters. The proof, though, is in the jokes themselves, which are interspersed with animal fun facts, limericks, and tongue twisters. How do these gags grab you? From Fowl Chicken Jokes to Tickle Your Funny Bone: When geese fly south, why is one side of the V usually longer than the other? There are more geese on that side. If you haven't fainted from eye-rolls, each book concludes with a nifty craft. Happy jesting.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)