Mummy Riddles

by Katy Hall

Book Overview

Where do mummies swim? In the Dead Sea. Do mummies enjoy being mummies? Of corpse! And so will young readers when they wrap themselves up in these sidesplitting riddles! The colorful, spooky illustrations add to the humor. "This lively collection of puns and jokes is likely to be frightfully popular." --School Library Journal

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803718462
• ISBN13: 9780803718463
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Dial Books
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 3

Customer Reviews

Great for Students Learning to Read and Who Love Mummy Jokes!

I think that my students will love this book. They love mummies and they love jokes. The jokes are good for my ESOL students because they teach American jokes and play on words.

mummy riddles awsome

haha! this book is sooo funnie. I recomend this book to third graders because i read it to my little third grade brother. He was in stiches he was laughing so much. Even my sixth grade teacher was laughing. I think this is my favorite picture book of all time.

Grossly gruesome gags

Q: What do Mummies eat for breakfast? A: Shrouded wheat.This is just one of the grossly gruesome gags you'll encounter in this compendium of mummy humor. The riddles rely heavily on puns and slightly on a working knowledge of ancient Egyptian burial practices. The illustrations are large, bright and cartoony with lots of clever details that kids will love to pore over. They'll also love committing these riddles to memory and trying them out on parents during a long car trip.Q: What did the doctor tell the little mummy at her checkup? A: You grue-some!Get it? Bwa ha ha ha ha.