The Little Pun Book

by Robert Margolin

Little book packed with puns and illustrations.

Genres: Humor

61 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1960

Reviews

[Rick Jones]

A light amusing book but not as comprehensive as the others I inherited from my father.

[elstaffe]

Half super super 1960s casually racist, half actually filled with puns that I hadn't heard or read before and that delighted me. 3 stars to split the difference.

Sidenote: Some of the ethnicism/racism in this was outdated, not just in that it's (hypothetically) marginally less in fashion for everyone to be openly racist in good fun, but that it's also prejudiced against, like, people from Scandinavia. What an odd choice (although maybe it's just because that's where Lappland happens to be).

[Rick Bavera]

Best I could give this one was a 2.

A handful of the puns were funny.

But most were severely dated for 2018, a bit arcane, a bit racist/sexist, or just not all that funny.

It is said by some that puns are the lowest form of humor. If so, these ones were mostly the leftovers.

[Māḷagi]

Book is fun but most of the puns are outdated if you're reading in 2018

[George Siehl]

I think this book is really an exercise book: when you try to "get" some of the puns,
its a real stretch.

[dirt]

The version I read was from 1960 with all the quasi racist and sexist jokes in it, because there is nothing funnier.

[Chris King]

Read this as a young child, classic bathroom reader stuff, and the old, tattered book is still in the bathroom, entertaining the next generation.