Turkey Riddles

by Katy Hall, Lisa Eisenberg, Kristin Sorra (Illustrator)

Do you like plucky puns? Do you have a fowl sense of humor? Well, fluff up your feathers and get ready for fun. Turkey Riddles , the sixteenth book in Katy Hall and Lisa Eisenberg's best-selling series, is stuffed with jokes and riddles that kids will gobble up.

Find out what you'd get if you crossed a turkey with an octopus. Discover why Tom Turkey climbed into the vegetable bowl. To help you guess the answers, Kristin Sorra's illustrations provide hilarious clues.

Genres: Thanksgiving, Picture Books, Holiday, Childrens, Fiction

40 pages, Paperback

First published August 18, 2002

About the author

Katy Hall also has books published under her married name: Kate McMullan.

Reviews

[Leslie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Here's a fun little book just perfect for these fall months before Thanksgiving and Christmas. My 7 year old has enjoyed them, but has to have half of them explained,because of his Asperger's Syndrome he has some difficulty understanding idiomatic expressions and puns and other such play on words. Some of the jokes just used terminology (like "fowl" or "ear (of corn)", he'd not really heard before. It's a level 3 and on the back they don't really tell you much about what that's supposed to mean. I would think any AVERAGE 3RD grader could read this with ease, a more eager reader could read most of it in even 1st grade. Most kids though grades 3 thru 5 will like the jokes, which aren't too bad and each have very silly illustrations (all quite colorful). Examples:
What happened when Tom Turkey stepped up to the plate? (baseball picture of turkey getting ready to hit a the ball) Answer: He hit a "fowl" ball.

What did the turkey say when the pilgrim passed the potatoes? (picture of the first thanksgiving where the turkey, sitting on a large platter, looks quite happy)
Answer: No thanks, I'm stuffed.

I plan on using these on the days of Thanksgiving just to add to the general merriment. My son loves to have job (Head garbage taker-outer and joke teller these days) and takes these little duties very seriously.

[Sandra · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoy reading and sharing these jokes every year at Thanksgiving. This year I shared the book with a friend that teaches 4th grade. When she returned the book she told me how much all of her students enjoyed this book. She spread out the jokes throughout the three days before thanksgiving.

[Thomas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Funny Thanksgiving jokes!

[Monica · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not that great. Not funny. Boring. Don't read.

[Felicia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cute Riddles

[Teri · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun!!!

[Stacy Natal · Rating 3 out of 5]

My third graders enjoyed them even though I had to explain the meaning behind most of them (especially my ELL).

[Jessica Simmons · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is so funny! It tells many jokes that are great for Thanksgiving! It is even a book that is good for beginning readers.

[Samantha · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute silly book with puns and jokes. A quick , fun read for Thanksgiving

[Charleigh (Jesus' Version) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Turkey Riddles has some very funny jokes in it. I made a homemade board game and one of the cards says to tell a joke and if no one laughs go backwards. I like to use riddles from this book for the game.

[Villain E · Rating 3 out of 5]

Riddles/jokes about turkeys. Each page has the question and answer on the same page and silly art, which makes it challenging to read the riddles to the kids, because they want to see the art, but then they can read the answers. The punchlines get repetitious.

[Xiyue Zhang · Rating 2 out of 5]

difficult for me

[Jamie Johnson Leach · Rating 1 out of 5]

The kids couldn't figure them out!

[David Haggett · Rating 4 out of 5]

Puns, jokes, and ridiculous riddles like this one:

What do you call a super-hero turkey and his sidekick? Beakman and Robin!