Sonderbooks Book Review of

Knock, Knock!

Okay, I'm not at all sure you'd want to give this book to any beginner reader that you have to live with! The knock-knock jokes contained in this book are familiar groaners. (Aren't all knock-knock jokes groaners? I'm curious: Do they have anything like knock-knock jokes in other languages? Do any of my readers know?)

The delightful part about this book, and what makes it fun for an adult to read once, is that it celebrates the magnificent art of fourteen exuberant and amazingly talented children's book illustrators.

The fourteen illustrators featured are Saxton Freymann (Naturally, his knock-knock joke is "Lettuce."), Tomie DePaola, Dan Yaccarino, Peter H. Reynolds, Sophie Blackall, Yumi Heo, Boris Kulikov, Brett Helquist, Henry Cole, Judy Schachner, Chris Raschka, Laurie Keller, David Small, and Jon J. Muth.

This book is a delight to read through. And although it can get annoying, it will teach the classic knock-knock jokes every American child should know.

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