CHEEP Shots: Joking around with Chirp

WHAT DO YOU CALL A RABBIT THAT TELLS JOKES?

A FUNNY BUNNY!

WHAT DO YOU COMB A BUNNY WITH?

A HARE BRUSH!

WHY DID THE BABY CHICK CROSS THE PLAYGROUND?

TO GET TO THE OTHER SLIDE!

With a cute yellow chick acting as stand-up comic, Joking Around with Chirp: More Than 130 Feather-Ruffling Jokes, Riddles, and Tongue Twisters! (Owlkids Books, 2013) will have them all howling in the aisles with laughter. This just published comedic compendium includes updated version of oldies but goodies and many new punny riddles which are rib-sticking, rib-tickling fare for early readers as well as for older kids who have come to dote on witty wordplay.

WHY DIDN'T THE LOBSTER SHARE ITS TOYS?
BECAUSE IT WAS A LITTLE SHELLFISH!

WHAT DO YOU CALL A SLEEPING BULL?
A BULLDOZER!

And for readers who are nutty over knock-knocks, there are some nifty numbers:

KNOCK KNOCK?
WHO'S THERE?
WATER.
WATER WHO?
WHAT ARE YOU DOING TODAY?

The editors at Owlkids, publishers of Chirp, ChicaDee, and Owl Magazines, know how to make savvy use of  page design to set off what are described as 130 Feather-Ruffling Jokes, Riddles, and Tongue Twisters, mixing full-color photos of animals with speech balloons with cartoon pages with the comic Chirp delivering the punch lines. A whole menagerie of animals are featured, from cute kittens to perky puppies all in a row cracking jokes, from camels to kangaroos doing comic cameos on their own pages. In an innovative format with eye-catching photos and novel jokes that also fire kid's word skills, Joking Around with Chirp: More Than 130 Feather-Ruffling Jokes, Riddles, and Tongue Twisters! offers a giggle on every page, clever comic quips certified to crack up kids, as these ducks do!

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN DUCKS FLY UPSIDE DOWN?
THEY QUACK UP!