One Hundred and One Elephant Jokes

by Robert Blake

Book Overview

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590410628
• ISBN13: 9780590410625
• Release Date: June 1964
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 3

Customer Reviews

One of the most influential works of the second half of the twentieth century

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.

Classic

This book was purchased as a gift for a friend whom remembered some of these very jokes from his childhood. Corny and innocent, expect these jokes to be memorable and just fun.

Best book ever

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