Books in Little Giants series

Calling all gagsters, punsters, quipsters, and wisecrackers! This little volume—jam-packed with satisfying merriment—outjests every other jokefest with ridiculous riddles, jibing jokes, outrageous one-liners, silly sidebars, and much more. Try these out: What did Obi-Wan Kenobi say to Luke Skywalker at breakfast? Use the fork, Luke! Or, how about: What goes buzz, buzz, buzz, plop? A bee laughing its head off! With hundreds of wacky witticisms, it will prove hours and hours of side-splitting fun.

It's dangerous to find over 1,750 riddles in one place, and the silly cartoons throughout this collection only make it harder to stop turning the pages. They're organized into 20 categories to keep you from getting lost (or losing your mind). Still, you can't stop turning the pages as you riddle yourself over money, getting sick, hurling insults, thinking up comebacks, enjoying nature, driving, playing, using computers. Just in time, the last riddle appears: What do joggers say when they leave you? So longùgotta run. 352 pages, 160 b/w illus., 4 3/16 x 5 1/4.

Knock-knocks are a perennial favorite with youngsters, and here are hundreds to keep them giggling. This new collection of uproarious knock-knocks will take kids (and their unwitting victims!) from A (Knock-Knock. Who’s there? Ammonia. Ammonia who? Ammonia little kid, so I can’t reach the doorbell!) to Z (Knock-Knock. Who’s there? Zoe. Zoe who? Zoe doesn’t recognize my voice now?). With fantastic drawings that add to the fun, this pocket-sized volume will soon have you bursting at the seams with laughter!

This little book with big information will send kids flying into outer space to explore our fascinating universe. Of course, they’ll learn about the planets, moons, and stars. But this lively information-packed guide also includes fantastic astronomical phenomena that will make a child’s eyes open wide in amazement: everything from black holes to white dwarfs to red giants. The voyage begins in our own solar system, starting with the sun and proceeding from Mercury to Pluto—with the occasional asteroid, comet, and meteor thrown in. Follow a star’s life from beginning to end; do “deep sky” astronomy (the study of objects beyond our system) and have fun observing the heavens through binoculars and telescopes. There’s lots of cool trivia and quizzes throughout, too!

Hundreds of fascinating, flabbergasting, and sometimes freaky facts are at your disposal in this fun-sized compendium. Uncover animal oddities, including the fact that certain species of frogs can survive being frozen solid and thawed. Find out how strange people really are: Did you know that the average human produces 25,000 quarts of saliva in a lifetime—enough to fill two swimming pools? And there are botanical surprises, such as that bananas are actually herbs, plus science tidbits about the Earth, inventions, computers, and more.

Are you ready to say "knock-knock" nearly a thousand times? Then here's a collection to last you a lifetime, or until you've driven your parents and friends crazy, whichever comes first. This is the biggest knock-knock treasury you'll ever find. While you fill the neighborhood with laughs, you'll also enjoy dozens of zany cartoon drawings that show just how ridiculous these jokes can be! 352 pages, 180 b/w illus., 4 3/16 x 5 1/4.

It seems stranger than fiction—but it’s true: this astonishing array of fascinating creatures really did inhabit the earth eons before humans ever existed. But they have come alive once again on these vivid pages to amaze kids. Youngsters can see what emerged and when, beginning with single-celled life forms more than 3,500 million years ago. There’s plenty of engrossing detail on the development of life in the sea, land, and air; on invertebrates, fish, amphibians, early tetrapods, reptiles, birds, and, finally, on mammals and other prehistoric beings. Each creature—including dinosaurs, of course—gets a full, information-packed spread, along with drawings to show what it probably looked like, an illustration of a known animal for comparison, and a time line.

A handy and fun size illustrated guide that features big information, with more than 1,000 fun facts about animals familiar, unusual, and just plain bizarre. Whether kids are curious about cats, millipedes, parakeets, porpoises, or even the giant mola mola fish, the knowledge they uncover will make them say “wow.”* The forked tongue of a snake enables it to smell "in stereo."* The lungs of a horse are three times larger than those of a lion.* African elephants stay on their feet for 30 to 40 years.* Belching cows contribute to the greenhouse effect by adding methane to the atmosphere.Kids will feel smart entertaining their friends with everything new they know.