One Hundred and One Elephant Jokes [Paperback]

Robert Blake (Editor)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks (June 1964)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0590410628
• ISBN-13: 978-0590410625
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #901,242 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I searched high and low for this book!, May 11, 2005

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Jessica Lux (Rosamond, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One Hundred and One Elephant Jokes (Paperback)

My parents had this book, and I remember loving it when I was a kid. I couldn't for the life of me remember the title, so I searched for a while before buying this one off Amazon, hoping that it was the right one. This is ripped off on tons of Internet websites...it's the original source of the on-going Tarzan and Jane elephant jokes. The jokes contained in here aren't meant to be standalone--the book is intended to be read cover to cover (it's short) because the one-linder jokes build on one another.

This book is so cheap that you should take a chance and go out and buy it. Enjoy!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best book ever, November 27, 2001

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This review is from: One Hundred and One Elephant Jokes (Paperback)

I can't stop laughing. Especially loved the Pygmies joke.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most influential works of the second half of the twentieth century, December 17, 2008

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T. Thompson (Florida, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One Hundred and One Elephant Jokes (Paperback)

This book is priceless. I bought a copy at a school book fair when I was in grade school and only remember a few of the jokes now (a few decades later). My six-year-old son wants me to repeat the few I know over and over. I decided to get him the book! Glad to find copies here.

Elephant jokes found their way well into the culture in the 60s. This is the classic elephant joke book with a small variety of supporting characters that pop up in various jokes (ducks, bluebirds, pygmies, plums), and even has cameos from Tarzan, Jane, and Charles de Gaulle. It has the jokes with multiple answers that make the second one really funny. For example, the question "How do you get down from an elephant?" is in there a couple of times, with the first answer being "You slide down his trunk," and the second answer, "You don't get down from an elephant; you get down from a duck." The magic is in the setups, the thematic repetitions (hence, down coming from a duck rather than a goose--ducks work far better in elephant jokes than geese do). For a 2nd grader with a good appreciation for the slapstick and ridiculous, this silly little book is a treasure. The fact that it's style is a bit dated is just a nostalgia bonus.