Kids' Silliest Riddles

by Jacqueline Horsfall, Buck Jones (Illustrator)

Picnic pranks and monkeyshines, knock-knocks and lots of yuks! From beach bloopers and garden goofies to fast-food freak-outs and pucks and yucks, every riddle here will make you giggle uncontrollably. What do cats carry to picnics? Mice chests . What kind of monkey can fly? Hot-air baboons . Why was the martial arts expert sick? He had kung flu . Why do dogs like to eat at Italian restaurants? For the paws-ta . And the delightfully silly drawings throughout make everything even funnier. You'll want to share the laughs with all your pals. A Selection of Scholastic Book Clubs .

96 pages, Paperback

First published September 28, 2002

About the author

Jackie knew she wanted to write when a high school English teacher scolded her for writing a book report on a banned book. Jackie didn't know the book had been banned -- or even that books COULD be banned.

Now she does it all: fiction & nonfiction, 21 books & hundreds of magazine pieces, for kids, teens and adults. For 15 years she taught writing courses for the Institute of Children's Literature. Her early writing career began in Washington, DC, at the White House Correspondence Section -- answering the President's mail.

Jackie lives in the Finger Lakes wine region of upstate New York, deep in the woods where mushrooms form fairy circles.