(4) K-3 Illustrated by Jeff Sinclair. Silly riddles ("Where do spies buy groceries?" "At the snooper-market") are interspersed with jokes, knock-knocks, and funny lists ("Your family might be aliens if..."). The presentation is bland and the black-and-white drawings are amateurish, but the book offers a varied assortment of humor and the subject index is helpful for those looking for jokes on particular topics.

Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta

(4) 4-6 Illustrated by Jeff Sinclair. With chapters like "Psychic Predictions," "Card Sorcery," and "Calculator Wizardry," this book contains dozens of math tricks the numerically inclined can use to amaze their friends. Each has a paragraph "explaining" the trick, but the book really promotes math interest and use rather than teaching any math processes. Cartoon illustrations decorate the magic acts. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Jeff Sinclair. A few of the jokes in this book could be quite funny to some readers ("Knock knock. Who's there? Alex. Alex who? Alex plain later"), some rise as far as corniness, and the rest are just pedestrian. The jokes are arranged alphabetically and are broken up with cartoon line drawings, usually puns about personified letters of the alphabet. Ind.

Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam