Holiday Ha-Ha's: Halloween Jokes & Riddles [Paperback]

Craig Yoe (Author, Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up | Series: Holiday Ha-Ha's

From Craig Yoe, the creator of our wildly popular Mighty Big Books, comes a new series of joke books: Holiday Ha-Ha's. Holiday Ha-Ha's are compact-sized to fit easily in the hands of readers! The 128 pages will ensure that jokesters will be giggling for hours!

All Hallows Eve has never been so funny with Holiday Ha-Ha's: Halloween Jokes & Riddles. This one-of-a-kind joke book is filled with over 300 hilarious Halloween theme jokes, riddles, and puns, plus Craig's spooky and unique line drawings. And a second helping of humor isn't far behind in the second book in the series, Holiday Ha-Ha's: Thanksgiving Jokes & Riddles. Jokes and riddles are the perfect family entertainment for budding comedians on this, our favorite gluttonous holiday! At such a great price, this is the perfect, simple holiday gift for goofy ghosts, goblins, and little gobblers!

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Price Stern Sloan (August 25, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0843102721
• ISBN-13: 978-0843102727
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,473,956 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Vice magazine calls Craig Yoe the "Indiana Jones of comics historians." Publishers Weekly says he's the "archivist of the ridiculous and sublime" and calls his work "brilliant." The Onion calls him "the celebrated designer." The Library Journal, "a comics guru." BoingBoing hails him "a fine cartoonist and a comic book historian of the first water." Yoe was Creative Director/Vice President/General Manager of Jim Henson's Muppets, and a Creative Director at Nickelodeon and Disney. Craig has won an Eisner Award and the Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars Got what I expected., September 13, 2003

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JEFF F. HAINES "Jeff F. Haines" (Arcata, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Holiday Ha-Ha's: Halloween Jokes & Riddles (Paperback)

Craig Yoe, webmaster of www.riddles4kids.com, ex-The Muppets director, and current top dog of Yoe! Studio, has come up with 128 B&W pages of moaners, groaners, and knee-slappers for youngsters. Incidentally, I had fun with Halloween Jokes + Riddles too. (I'm an adult.)

Yoe's not too bad. He takes on the tasks of writing over three hundred Halloween gags and drawing over a hundred cartoons.

If I were to get critical, which I suppose I am, I'd say the drawings are of doodle-quality. Hey, but that's okay. They're cute. Just don't expect colorful paintings or a Newbery Medal stamped on the front cover.

It's hard to criticize the jokes, riddles, and puns. They're silly and fun (as they should be). However, here and there I felt that the author used the same basic joke once too often:

What do ghosts watch on TV on Halloween? Horror Booovies!
What's a ghost's favorite fruit? Boo-berries!
What do ghosts read? Booo-ks!
Where does a ghost go to learn how to cut hair? Booo-ty school!
Why did the ghost blow its nose? Because it was full of booo-gers!

(Heh-heh. "Booo-gers." Sigh. Smile.)

Okay...so...on the other hand, because this collection is for younger readers, repetitive punch lines might help your son or daughter guess the answer. Could prove to be very satisfying. And furthermore, the more I think about it, this is a monster joke book. There are only so many angles to be explored.

All and all, I'm not sorry I own Yoe's book. I'm not about to pump it up to be more than it is. It is a fun, pocketbook-sized, black & white excursion into ghost & goblin frivolity. That's all. If you're down with that, buy it. I did.

P.S. This book deservers 3.5 stars, but Amazon doesn't allow for half-star ratings.

P.P.S. "What does a ghost make when he gets a test answer wrong?"
A BOOO-BOOO!

P.P.P.S. "How did the invisible man's mother know when he was lying?"
SHE COULD SEE RIGHT THROUGH HIM!

P.P.P.P.S. "Where does an 18-wheeler driver go on Halloween?"
TRUCK OR TREATING!

P.P.P.P.P.S. "What did the doctor say when the monster had a baby?"
IT'S A GHOUL!

*snicker*

Hey, 3.5 stars ain't bad.