The Ha Ha Bonk Book

Name: The Ha Ha Bonk Book
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9780140314120
Price: 15.99 NZD
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By Janet Ahlberg

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The Ha Ha Bonk Book by Janet Ahlberg is a delightful children's book brimming with jokes and humorous rhymes. It's designed to entertain young readers with its playful language and amusing illustrations. Perfect for encouraging a love of reading, it will have children laughing along as they explore the pages.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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The Ha Ha Bonk Book

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A collection of good jokes to tell your dad, mum, your baby brother, your teacher and anybody else you can think of, such as: What goes ha ha bonk? A man laughing his head off; What goes 99 bonk? A centipede with a wooden leg; What goes putt, putt, putt, putt, putt, putt, putt, putt? A bad golfer and more besides...

Description

The old ones are the best - a 40th anniversary reissue of Janet and Allan Ahlberg's brilliantly funny joke book!

The Ha Ha Bonk Book is jam-packed with brilliant jokes to tell your mum, your dad, your baby brother, your best friend or your worst enemy, your dog, your teacher - in fact, anyone else you can think of! Jokes that will have everyone chuckling, such as:

Q: What goes ha ha bonk? A: A man laughing his head off!

Q: What did the policeman say to his tummy? A: You're under a vest.

And

Q: What came after the Stone Age and the Bronze Age? A: The Sausage!

These and more besides make a perfect joke book for all the family to enjoy!

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780140314120

Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 March 1982

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Puffin

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 6.0mm

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 76g

Pages: 96

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Children's Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational Humour Janet Ahlberg Penguin Books

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Allan Ahlberg, former teacher, postman, plumber's mate and gravedigger, is in the super-league of children's writers. He has published over a hundred children's books and is the author of the prize-winning Each Peach Pear Plum and The Jolly Postman. He has also written prize-winning fiction and poems for older readers. Allan lives in Bath.

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