A mixture of how-to and history, this book sets out the rules of joke-making and joke-telling (with lots of hilarious examples) and explores our fascination with japes, jibes, jokes and jesters.
2007 Finalist for the New Zealand Post Book Awards for nonfiction; Shortlisted for Storylines Notable New Zealand Books 2007
Included in the UK Guardian booklist of must-read books for boys in May 2007.
About Sharon Holt
Sharon Holt was born in Auckland and grew up there. She left school at 16 and trained and worked as a teacher before applying for journalism school. In recent years she has written a number of educational books for Learning Media in NZ and Thomson Learning in Australia.