Great Lies to Tell Small Kids

by Andy Riley and J.K. Rowling

Book Overview

More wicked humor from the mind of the bestselling author of The Book of Bunny Suicides and The Return of the Bunny Suicides . Cartoonist Andy Riley turns his irreverent wit to another group of small creatures that lurk among us seemingly everywhere: children. From the benign (every ant you meet must be named) to the truly cruel (Ronald McDonald is dead ), each hilarious cartoon has a tall tale to educate children and entertain wicked adults everywhere...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452286247
• ISBN13: 9780452286245
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.3" x 5.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Great Lies for Sure

This book is hilarious. The only downside is that it's a short read. I've read his other books, Bunny Suicides, and even though it's not as strong as the Bunny series, it's just as funny and along the same line of humor.

Great for people who work with kids!

I got this for my husband who works with kids often, and he frequently teases and jokes with them using the cute stories in this book... it's a fun resource for sure!

"If you utter the trigger word 'Badminton' to your grandmother..."

"...her original programming will activate and she will kill all humans." This caption runs underneath a picture of an elderly woman in a rocking chair reading, while a boy looks at her trepidatiously. If you find this sort of thing amusing, I suspect that like me, you'll very much enjoy this book. These comics are sort of like a British youngsters version of Dan Piraro's excellent "Bizarro." By making things deliberately topsy-turvy, Andy Riley gets us to think about the world in a different way. And that's a good thing. Also recommended: Bizarro and Other Strange Manifestations of the Art of Dan Piraro

Funny Brit

This is an adult British cartoon book, meaning some of the humor is going to be quite off color. Of course you may have guessed that with the title. I gave it to my husband for father's day, and we both got some good chuckles out of it. As another reviewer said, it is very short.

Great stuff!

I bought this book seeing it next to the Bunny Suicides books, so I knew what to expect, and I loved every page of it. Brilliant!