National Geographic Kids Just Joking 2: 300 Hilarious Jokes About Everything, Including Tongue Twisters, Riddles, and More

by National Geographic Kids

What sound to porcupines make when they kiss?
Ouch!

What do you get from a cow after an earthquake?
A milk shake!

Why did the golfer wear two pairs of pants?
In case he got a hole in one.

Packed with even more of the silly jokes that kids love, including knock-knocks, tongue twisters, riddles, traditional question and answer jokes, and more, Just Joking 2 will be presented in the colorful, photo-driven style, only National Geographic Kids can do. Laughing animals, funny people, and other colorful photos are paired with each joke, adding an extra laugh on each page. National Geographic Kids' signature square trim size and candy-colored palette make this fun-filled book perfect for tossing into a backpack to share with friends at school or camp.

Releases simultaneously in Reinforced Library 978-1-4263-1017-1 , $15.90/$17.95 Can

Genres: Humor, Animals, Childrens, Jokes

208 pages, Paperback

Published December 11, 2012

About the author

With more than 600 titles—including the popular Weird But True franchise and the New York Times Best Selling National Geographic Kids Almanac—National Geographic Kids Books is the recognized leader in nonfiction for kids. Published in 28 languages, NGK Books reaches approximately 85 million kids every year.

Offering K-12 educators resources that align to and support the Common Core State Standards, National Geographic has a long history of providing high-quality informational texts suitable for primary, upper elementary, and middle school English language arts, social studies, and science classrooms.

Reviews

[Cheryl]

Even without a person with whom to share these, this is a lot of fun. With a child to ask the riddles and knock-knock jokes back & forth it would be a riot. I only got about halfway before it came due at the library though, so I decided to return it. Lots of wonderful photos, and I liked the animal trivia included every few pages, too.

I recommend any books of the series to anyone who likes kid-friendly humor and has a kid or a friend who also does.

November 2022

[JACKSON VERITY-MCMORAN]

it is so funny

[Ray · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not 300 Hilarious Jokes, but quite a few good ones mixed in with a few duds. The photos of animals and accompanying info about them was very interesting.

[Betsy · Rating 5 out of 5]

My son loves these books. We started reading National Geographic Kids books when he was about six (he's nine now) and I can honestly say that these books have been instrumental in teaching him to read. One weekend, the child actually read a 300 pg. book (one from the Weird, But True Series) to my husband and I over the course of two days - 50 pg.s three times a day until he'd finished. I mention this because last year my son was sent to a reading specialist because his teacher was concerned that he was reading below his age-level. Although I was happy for him to receive the extra attention from the specialist, I always doubted that he had any real problems reading because he read the Nat'l Geo books to us constantly. Thankfully, I was right. He no longer sees the reading specialist, reads above his grade-level, and even reads out-loud to his classmates at lunchtime.

Why is this so important? Because kids are often labeled as poor readers when it's not that they can't read, but rather that they simply aren't interested in what they are being given to read. My teen-age step-daughter grew up thinking that she was a poor reader, too. That all changed when I gave her the Twilight Series. She read the last book, "Breaking Dawn," (756 pages) in less than 48 hours!

There are several elements that make the Nat'l Geo series so appealing, particularly to elementary aged boys. The layouts are very simple, not cluttered. Each joke (or fact in the Weird, But True Series) is only one or two sentences long. The font is much larger than what you would find in a typical chapter book designed for this age group. And the visual images are excellent - exciting, funny, interesting - they immediately draw the reader in, curious to find out more.

The Just Joking Series is one of my son's favorites. We'd previously purchased the first book in the series and my husband and I had each spent several evenings with my son taking turns with him reading the jokes aloud and cracking each other up. We purchased the box set (includes books 1-3) in September for his birthday and are almost through the other two books, as well. We've also pre-ordered "Just Joking #4."

The jokes in these books are mostly very funny, very clean, and only occasionally so dumb that they merit the buzzer sound (think "America's Got Talent"). The joke books also include several tongue twisters. Truthfully, our son doesn't really care for these, but the jokes more than make up for this.

Of all the joke books we've got, these are our favorites. As a parent, teacher, library volunteer, and chairperson of my son's Scholastic Book Fairs, I can definitely recommend both the boxed set and the individuals titles in the series for lower elementary-aged children.

[Rakisha · Rating 5 out of 5]

The National Georgraphic Kids books are awesome to book talk during class visits of all ages. The print is big. The colors are bright and big, and the students like to be grossed out or cracked up!

[Bridget R. Wilson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of great riddles that will be great for my Mad Hatter Tea Party ana Hobbit Party this summer.

[Trixie · Rating 4 out of 5]

The riddles and jokes are really funny and the photos are awesome.

[Gray Kemplin · Rating 5 out of 5]

This tells a bunch of funny jokes about almost everything and it features some animal pictures.

[Kaylee · Rating 5 out of 5]

best joke book ever

[Ameythest · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was like the best book ever! I enjoyed all those jokes very much