Smart Alec's Cheeky Jokes for Kids

by David Mostyn and Smart Alec

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0706366093
• ISBN13: 9780706366099
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Ward Lock Limited.
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Seems a little pricey at $75.00, but what the hell?

Good thing someone gave me a copy of this book when I was in the 4th grade, because it looks like no one else is going to be able to get their hands on it anytime soon. Not unless their willing to pay through the nose, that is. I first read this when I was a kid. 4th grade I think it was. It was given to me by a friend who got from I don't know where. He could have picked it up off the ground in the school yard for all I know. I was enthralled by the jokes in this book. It contained some surprisingly adult subject matter. Not anything related to sex, drugs, alcoholism, or bowel movements. Nothing crude like that, but there are some rather striking commentaries on some of life's pit falls, such as pollution, terrorism, superficiality, and death. Rather dark for a kid's joke book, I know, but I was extremely pleased by it's topics. Seeing as I was forced fed a strict diet of fairy tales, Dr. Suess, Arthur and Babar books throughout most of my early years in school. I haven't looked at it in a while. Most of the jokes would probably look pretty tame by the standards that have been set by most of the joke books I've read since then. Examples: Mad Magazine, Truly Tasteless Jokes by Blanche Knott, Dirty Jokes and Beer by Drew Carey, Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy and other light classics. Probably would make a great gift for your kid, though. That is, if you don't mind pushing the envelope a little with your child-rearing.