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Ready, Set, Read--And Laugh!: A Funny Treasury for Beginning Readers
There's nothing like humor to get children reading as well as laughing. What better way could there be to introduce them to the joys of reading than a superb treasury of humorous works by beloved children's book authors and illustrators?
Created especially for beginning readers, Ready...Set...Read—and Laugh! is a rich compilation of comic stories, hilarious poems, outlandish jokes, and clever word games. It includes renowned works that feature some of the best-loved and funniest characters in children's literature. In keeping with the needs of its audience, this book features simple vocabulary, easy-to-read large type, and bright colorful illustrations.
Created especially for beginning readers, Ready...Set...Read—and Laugh! is a rich compilation of comic stories, hilarious poems, outlandish jokes, and clever word games. It includes renowned works that feature some of the best-loved and funniest characters in children's literature. In keeping with the needs of its audience, this book features simple vocabulary, easy-to-read large type, and bright colorful illustrations.
- GenresPicture Books
144 pages, Hardcover
First published March 28, 1995
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About the author
Joanna Cole
488 books204 followersJoanna Cole, who also wrote under the pseudonym B. J. Barnet, was an author of children’s books who teaches science.
She is most famous as the author of The Magic School Bus series of children's books. Joanna Cole wrote over 250 books ranging from her first book Cockroach to her famous series Magic School Bus.
Cole was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby East Orange. She loved science as a child, and had a teacher she says was a little like Ms. Frizzle. She attended the University of Massachusetts and Indiana University before graduating from the City College of New York with a B.A. in psychology. After some graduate education courses, she spent a year as a librarian in a Brooklyn elementary school. Cole subsequently became a letters correspondent at Newsweek, and then a senior editor for Doubleday Books for Young Readers.
She is most famous as the author of The Magic School Bus series of children's books. Joanna Cole wrote over 250 books ranging from her first book Cockroach to her famous series Magic School Bus.
Cole was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby East Orange. She loved science as a child, and had a teacher she says was a little like Ms. Frizzle. She attended the University of Massachusetts and Indiana University before graduating from the City College of New York with a B.A. in psychology. After some graduate education courses, she spent a year as a librarian in a Brooklyn elementary school. Cole subsequently became a letters correspondent at Newsweek, and then a senior editor for Doubleday Books for Young Readers.
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July 21, 2018
Sort stories, poems, jokes, rebus stories (some words replaced with pictures), and songs. I grew up with this book so I have a soft spot for it. But, I think everyone will find something to like in it.
This is one of the books that incentivised me to even try to read. Before this book and the box car children, I was willing to just wait for an adult to read to me. The mystery of what was going to be funny about the next part hooked me in this book. Every couple pages it was something new, so even when I mastered one of the stories or poems I had a new mystery on the next page.
This is one of the books that incentivised me to even try to read. Before this book and the box car children, I was willing to just wait for an adult to read to me. The mystery of what was going to be funny about the next part hooked me in this book. Every couple pages it was something new, so even when I mastered one of the stories or poems I had a new mystery on the next page.
November 12, 2021
My kids really liked this book. The stories were funny/silly. It was okay for a beginning reader, but a little challenging. I ended up having to read most of it. We will try having my 7-year-old read it again in a year or two if he's interested.
March 25, 2019
Good for early readers. I think kids will find it funny, but I was bored throughout.
August 12, 2016
We only read two of the stories, and they were pretty dumb. Not for beginning readers either.
May 31, 2015
I thought that the poems were silly!
October 9, 2015
The kids really enjoyed this one. It sure had them laughing!
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