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 – …
The New York Times Tons of Puns Crosswords: 75 Punny Puzzles from the Pages of The New York Times
The New York Times crossword puzzle is known for its wit and wordplay. You better be on your game to solve Tons of Puns Crosswords, a fun collection featuring some of the most punny out-there puzzles ever printed in the Times.Features:*75 Times crossword puzzles*Portable format is perfect for travel or solving at home*Edited by the biggest name …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
Everyone delights in wordplay! When there’s a sale on tennis balls, it’s first come, first serve. Condoms should be used on every conceivable occasion. Why does the Pope travel so much? Because he’s a roamin’ Catholic. What is purple and 5,000 miles long? The Grape Wall of China! O-pun the door to 1,001 goodies that will have you howling …
Going to Hell in a Hen Basket: An Illustrated Dictionary of Modern Malapropisms
Malapropism – A word or phrase that has been mistaken for another, usually because of its sound rather than its meaning.Everyone has made the mistake of using a word or phrase that they think sounds correct, but in fact is not. Malapropisms make some sense. They have a semantic logic to them, even if that logic makes perfect …
“[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 …