Wordplay

Gagged and Bound: A book of puns, one-liners and dad jokes

Gagged and Bound is a riotous, rapid-fire collection of over 500 original gags written by pun-loving jokesmith Nick Jones and published by Full Media Ltd. With a mixture of witty one-liners, playful puns and dubious dad jokes, coupled with some great visual gags illustrated by Tiffany Sheely, Gagged and Bound will leave you grinning like a maniac – …

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It’s a Punderful Life

Puns often mistakenly get a bad rep, but if they’re good enough for Oscar Wilde and Shakespeare (whose work featured over 3000 puns), it’s good enough for us. Hot off the back of her incredibly popular Monday Punday online series, Gemma Correll has surveyed her army of punning fans to create this hilarious collection of her best illustrated …

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Weighty Words, Too

Burdensome Katzenjammer Mystify Wondrous Zany These are five of the twenty-six words, one for each letter of the alphabet, that appear in Weighty Words, Too. As with the earlier Weighty Word Book, the stories, often fanciful, help young readers build their vocabularies. “Hibernate” tells the tale of Nathaniel, a very …

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Palindromania! (Sunburst Books)

The ultimate celebration for the palindromic year 2002!What exactly is “palindromania”? It’s the inability to see the word STRAW without thinking WARTS. It’s the powerful impulse to reverse the name OPRAH to make it HARPO. It’s the uncontrollable urge to buy A TOYOTA. It’s an obsession with words and phrases that read exactly the same forwards and backwards. …

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Puns of Steel (Argyle Sweater Collections)

The Argyle Sweater has sold nearly 1 million greeting cards through American Greetings, and more than 100,000 2011 calendars.With more than 1 million greeting cards sold, Scott Hilburn’s The Argyle Sweater dresses up the funny page with an argyle-wearing assortment of cavemen, bears, moths, and pompadour-styled humans, along with an occasional evil scientist.Boasting a readership ranging from the …

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Punished (Darby Creek Exceptional Titles)

Logan and his friend Benedict run into the wrong guy at the library–-literally. When Logan slams into the reference guy in the basement and gives him a little lip, Logan gets punished, really and truly punished. He has three days to complete three tasks before Professor Wordsworth will lift the magical punishment that keeps getting Logan in even …

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The Weighty Word Book

“[The Weighty Word Book] will appeal to kids who want to sound as smart as they are. It offers a clever, funny way to introduce new words into the vocabulary. . . . There’s one word for every letter of the alphabet–wait until you see what they do with dogmatic, juxtapose and zealot.”–The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colorado) “Each …

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