{"id":287,"date":"2008-12-12T13:14:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T17:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/12\/review-of-knock-knock\/"},"modified":"2009-02-24T23:06:50","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T03:06:50","slug":"review-of-knock-knock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Review of Knock, Knock!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image359\" height=\"209\" alt=\"knock_knock.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/knock_knock.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Knock, Knock!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Who&#8217;s There?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Jokers Welcome!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jokes by fourteen wacky &#038; talented artists inside!<\/p>\n<p>Dial Books for Young Readers, 2007.\u00a0 36 pages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguin.com\/youngreaders\">www.penguin.com\/youngreaders<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Okay, I&#8217;m not at all sure you&#8217;d want to give this book to any beginner reader that you have to live with!\u00a0 The knock-knock jokes contained in this book are familiar groaners.\u00a0 (Aren&#8217;t all knock-knock jokes groaners?\u00a0 I&#8217;m curious:\u00a0 Do they have anything like knock-knock jokes in other languages?\u00a0 Do any of my readers know?)<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s book illustrators.<\/p>\n<p>The fourteen illustrators featured are Saxton Freymann (Naturally, his knock-knock joke is &#8220;Lettuce.&#8221;), 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.<\/p>\n<p>This book is a delight to read through.\u00a0 And although it can get annoying, it will teach the classic knock-knock jokes every American child should know.<\/p>\n<p>Come on in!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0803731523\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/knock_knock.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/knock_knock.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knock, Knock! Who&#8217;s There? Jokers Welcome! Jokes by fourteen wacky &#038; talented artists inside! Dial Books for Young Readers, 2007.\u00a0 36 pages. www.penguin.com\/youngreaders Okay, I&#8217;m not at all sure you&#8217;d want to give this book to any beginner reader that you have to live with!\u00a0 The knock-knock jokes contained in this book are familiar groaners.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delightfully-silly","category-humorous","category-picture-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}