National Geographic Kids Just Joking 2: 300 Hilarious Jokes About Everything, Including Tongue Twisters, Riddles, and More – December 11, 2012 Author: National Geographic Kids | Language: English | ISBN:
1426310161 | Format: EPUB
National Geographic Kids Just Joking 2: 300 Hilarious Jokes About Everything, Including Tongue Twisters, Riddles, and More – December 11, 2012 Description
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Question: What’s more fun than a barrel of monkeys? Answer: Anywhere with a bunch of kids and this book. This second collection of jokes has the same format as the first: a roughly five-inch-square trim size blazing with bright colors and sharp photos. Inside are 300 jokes of all sorts: knock-knock, riddles, question-and-answer, and tongue twisters. (Try wrapping your tongue around “shelter for six sick scenic sightseers.”) A “Joke Finder” at collection’s end groups the jokes according to type. While the jokes are eliciting delighted groans (“What did the grasshopper say after it hit the windshield? ‘If I had the guts, I’d do it again’”), fun facts about animals appear on most pages, too. And, of course, those arresting National Geographic photos and general high-level production design set this apart from similar titles. Grades 2-5. --Connie Fletcher
- Age Range: 7 - 10 years
- Grade Level: 2 - 5
- Series: Just Joking
- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: National Geographic Children's Books; 11.11.2012 edition (December 11, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1426310161
- ISBN-13: 978-1426310164
- Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 6.4 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
My son loves these books. We started reading National Geographic Kids books when he was about six (he's nine now) and I can honestly say that these books have been instrumental in teaching him to read. One weekend, the child actually read a 300 pg. book (one from the Weird, But True Series) to my husband and I over the course of two days - 50 pg.s three times a day until he'd finished. I mention this because last year my son was sent to a reading specialist because his teacher was concerned that he was reading below his age-level. Although I was happy for him to receive the extra attention from the specialist, I always doubted that he had any real problems reading because he read the Nat'l Geo books to us constantly. Thankfully, I was right. He no longer sees the reading specialist, reads above his grade-level, and even reads out-loud to his classmates at lunchtime.
Why is this so important? Because kids are often labeled as poor readers when it's not that they can't read, but rather that they simply aren't interested in what they are being given to read. My teen-age step-daughter grew up thinking that she was a poor reader, too. That all changed when I gave her the Twilight Series. She read the last book, "Breaking Dawn," (756 pages) in less than 48 hours!
There are several elements that make the Nat'l Geo series so appealing, particularly to elementary aged boys. The layouts are very simple, not cluttered. Each joke (or fact in the Weird, But True Series) is only one or two sentences long. The font is much larger than what you would find in a typical chapter book designed for this age group. And the visual images are excellent - exciting, funny, interesting - they immediately draw the reader in, curious to find out more.
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