Monkeyfarts!: Wacky Jokes Every Kid Should Know
by David Borgenicht
illustrated by Brian Biggs
Date: 2012
Publisher: Quirk Books
Reading level: C
Book type: illustrated joke collection
Pages: 96
Format: e-book
Source: library
From classic favorites to zany newcomers, Monkeyfarts! is packed to bursing with wild and wacky jokes about monsters, pirates, polar bears, super-heroes, hot dogs, Harry Potter, Vikings, elephants, vampires, and more. With hilarious jokes and bold illustrations, it’s the only joke book you’ll ever need. Who doesn’t love Monkeyfarts!?
(synopsis from Goodreads)
This book should more appropriately be titled Monkeyfarts!: Wacky Jokes Every Kid Should Know and Most Adults Have Already Heard in Some Form. (Kind of an unwieldy title, though, isn't it?)
This book is too long (it's almost 100 pages!) and features mostly inane, sanitized jokes that barely made me crack any smiles at all. There are a few clever ones, but for the most part, these are the sort of jokes that stop being funny after about the age of ten. For a book called Monkeyfarts!, it's also remarkably light on the bathroom humour. I was expecting far more booger and poop jokes.
I haven't read many kids' joke books, so I don't really have anything to compare this one to. I suspect, however, that there are funnier ones out there.
Humour: 2/5
Illustrations: 2/5
Enjoyment: 2/5
Overall: 2 out of 5
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