Great Lies to Tell Small Kids [Mass Market Paperback]

Andy Riley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 31, 2006

On the heels of his runaway Bunny Suicides books, cartoonist Andy Riley turns his irreverent wit to another group of small creatures that lurk among us seemingly everywhere: children.

From the benign (every ant you meet must be named) to the truly cruel (Ronald McDonald is dead!), each hilarious cartoon has a tall tale to educate children and entertain wicked adults everywhere.

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Praise for Andy Riley:
“Wonderfully deviant.”—The Washington Post
“It’s the funniest, bunniest book I’ve ever read.”—Elton John
“Brilliantly researched.The most important book of the year.”—Hugh Grant

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Praise for Andy Riley:
"Wonderfully deviant."
—The Washington Post

"It’s the funniest, bunniest book I’ve ever read."
—Elton John

"Brilliantly researched.The most important book of the year."
—Hugh Grant

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Plume (January 31, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0452286247
• ISBN-13: 978-0452286245
• Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 7.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #139,519 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Funny Brit, September 3, 2006

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Nic (Verona, WI USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Great Lies to Tell Small Kids (Mass Market Paperback)

This is an adult British cartoon book, meaning some of the humor is going to be quite off color. Of course you may have guessed that with the title. I gave it to my husband for father's day, and we both got some good chuckles out of it. As another reviewer said, it is very short.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "If you utter the trigger word 'Badminton' to your grandmother...", April 20, 2007

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"...her original programming will activate and she will kill all humans."

This caption runs underneath a picture of an elderly woman in a rocking chair reading, while a boy looks at her trepidatiously.

If you find this sort of thing amusing, I suspect that like me, you'll very much enjoy this book. These comics are sort of like a British youngsters version of Dan Piraro's excellent "Bizarro." By making things deliberately topsy-turvy, Andy Riley gets us to think about the world in a different way.

And that's a good thing.

Also recommended: Bizarro and Other Strange Manifestations of the Art of Dan Piraro

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's Like Stealing Candy From a Baby, September 21, 2011

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This review is from: Great Lies to Tell Small Kids (Mass Market Paperback)

Anyone who has ever been around small kids knows that sometimes, every once in a long while, you can absolutely not avoid telling them a lie. Or two. Or as many as is necessary to quiet them down and make them go along with whatever you had planned on doing at that particular moment. Sure, lying is not nice, and there is something particularly wrong about lying to innocent little kids, but by golly, it feels so good. Unfortunately, it's not always easy coming up with great lies that the kids would readily believe. This is where Andy Riley's "Great Lies to Tell Small Kids" comes in handy. It provides you with a great resource for those times when you quickly need to come up with a good lie.

Some of the jokes in this collection are silly, some are the quintessential British dry humor, and a few are a bit off-color. I have to confess that I found this book to be really funny, even hilarious at times. Perhaps this is because this sort of humor really appeals to me, but I really think that Andy Riley has a great comedic gift. I think I'll go and check out a few more of his books.