The Joke Machine: Create Your Own Jokes and Become Instantly Funny!

Description

Follow a cast of fictional funny experts into the Joke Factory, where middle-grade readers learn to create their own jokes. Each chapter explores a different style of joke making, such as surprise, understatement, and exaggeration, and includes hundreds of hilarious example jokes. By the end of the book, readers will have a set of tools in their joke belt to make their friends and family actually LOL.

Theresa Julian writes humorous children's fiction, nonfiction, screenplays and teleplays. She loves words and her favorite thing to do is put them together in ways that make people laugh. Pat N. Lewis is a freelance cartoonist/illustrator from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with a client list that includes Highlights for Children, High Five Magazine, Workman Publishing, McGraw-Hill, Disney, Science Magazine, and the U.S. National Park Service. Pat is also a longtime member of SCBWI and a former president of the Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators. Please visit patnlewis.com for art samples and more.