Knock, Knock (Hardcover)

by Chris raschka (Illustrator), Saxton Freymann (Illustrator), Sophie Blackall (Illustrator), Henry Cole (Illustrator), Laurie Keller (Illustrator), Boris Kulikov (Illustrator), David Small (Illustrator), Jon Muth (Illustrator), Tomie dePaola (Illustrator), yumi heo (Illustrator), Peter Reynolds (Illustrator), Brett Helquist (Illustrator), Dan Yaccarino (Illustrator), Judy Schachner (Illustrator)

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist
In the fashion of Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? (2006), 14 children's-book artists (only Chris Raschka appears in both books) illustrate a different groan-inducing knock-knock joke in signature style. Saxton Freymann uses photos of lettuce ("Lettuce who?" "Lettuce in!") made to look like pigs. Tomie de Paola creates two love-struck gorillas to illustrate "Gorilla who?" "Gorill-a my dreams, I love you!" and so on. As in real life, there's always one mark that refuses to play along. In this case, it's Laurie Keller's Impatient Cow, whose "Moo!" interrupts the joke. The final two pages are devoted to the gallery of contributors; there's a likeness of each artist and a humorous statement about who they would want knocking at their doors. De Paola's response is "Sam an' Janet Evening." Don't get it? Try saying it aloud. Although this isn't as visually stunning as Chicken, the artwork is still just great and varied enough to keep children turning the pages. Enos, Randall

Product Description
The knock-knock joke: a kid classic. So many funny, punny punchlines. It was just screaming for its own book. To do this classic joke justice, we decided to gather fourteen of the best-known and most talented children’s book artists to illustrate their favorite punchlines. The results are wacky, zany, and absolutely hilarious.

If you knock on Tomie dePaola’s door, beware! Is that a girl or a gorilla? Who’s knocking at Saxton Freymann’s door? Just a couple of talking lettuces. Talking lettuces?! One impatient cow can hardly wait to get through Laurie Keller’s door, and David Small has a surprise waiting for his intruding vampire.

In this collection, you’ll recognize some of your favorite jokes and be surprised by new ones. But one thing is certain: Each time there’s a knock, you’ll want to answer the door!

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4-8
  
• Hardcover: 40 pages
• Publisher: Dial (September 20, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0803731523
• ISBN-13: 978-0803731523
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 10.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #55,586 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun Book!, December 28, 2007

By	R. Beyer (Baltimore, MD) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought this book for my five-year-old because she's learned some knock-knocks from other kids at school and is always trying to make up her own but doesn't understand how they're supposed to work. We both love looking at this book - the illustrations are as amusing as the jokes!

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Take a 'Pass' on this book., December 25, 2007

By	mommy for quality "mommy for quality" (USA) - See all my reviews

Knock, Knock

I bought this book for my four year old daughter for Christmas based on the age recommendation. I was very disappointed with the book and its contents. She can't possibly get the jokes - they are mostly culturally based and not age appropriate; ie "I van to drink your blood" etc. The jokes aren't even funny - not one of them. The pictures may or may not appeal to children; my daughter looked at the book once and hasn't looked at it again. I didn't think the art was particularly enthralling for a child's book.

Also, the artists are VERY impressed with themselves. Their names are listed on the cover (1), on the first page in the book (2), on each joke they illustrated (3) and then two pages are devoted to their choice of who they each want knocking at their door ( a total of 4 times). How many times does a 4 to 8 year old child need to see the artists' names? I have never heard of any of these artists and don't care who they want knocking at their door - can't imagine ANY child age 4-8 will even look at these pages. One artist mentioned wanting Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin at her door. What child knows who these ladies are??? What a waste of space in a child's book.

I do not recommend this book to anyone. I am sure there are better knock knock joke books out there - this one is the bottom of the barrel. I rated it one star only because I couldn't post a 'zero' star.

4.0 out of 5 stars Knock Knock for Kindergarteners, March 29, 2009

By	DJ's Treasures (Oklahoma) - See all my reviews

A teacher at our school has used this book very successfully to have her Kindergarten students understand how to present a Knock Knock joke. The "lettuce" joke is their favorite. Some of the jokes are not appropriate for the Kindergartners, that is my opinion. But overall, a good book to start learning how to tell and interpret jokes, a higher thinking process. She also took the jokes, re-wrote them on sentence strips and the child has to then read the joke and put back into the sequenced order. Again, a higher thinking process. I would recommend this book.