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How to Make a Shark Laugh: Funny and Easy to Read Jokes for Children Who Love Ocean Animals and Silly Fish Humor
Why don't sharks like clownfish? They taste funny!
Sharks aren't so scary if you catch them in a good mood. And the best way to get them in a good mood is with jokes! Get ready to giggle with this book of hilarious, shark-themed jokes for kids. It's full of silly illustrations, fishy puns, and easy-to-read words that make it a blast for early readers, and joke-lovers of all ages!
How to Make a Shark Laugh is perfect for ocean lovers and fish fans, including moms and dads! It's fun to read aloud in the car or as a short bedtime story. It's also hilarious for preschool, early learning, and kindergarten teachers needing a funny children's book to share with their classrooms during story time.
This joke book
Goofy, groan-y jokes that kids (and sharks) will read and share over and over.Cool, full-page cartoon pictures of sharks in silly scenarios!Enough fun to be a surefire hit as a birthday gift, stocking stuffer, and more.
Find out what tickles a shark's funny bone (funny fin?) with How to Make a Shark Laugh.
And explore the whole series of How to Make Them Laugh kids' joke books, including How to Make a Unicorn Laugh, How to Make a Ninja Laugh, How to Make an Astronaut Laugh, and How to Make a Penguin Laugh.
Sharks aren't so scary if you catch them in a good mood. And the best way to get them in a good mood is with jokes! Get ready to giggle with this book of hilarious, shark-themed jokes for kids. It's full of silly illustrations, fishy puns, and easy-to-read words that make it a blast for early readers, and joke-lovers of all ages!
How to Make a Shark Laugh is perfect for ocean lovers and fish fans, including moms and dads! It's fun to read aloud in the car or as a short bedtime story. It's also hilarious for preschool, early learning, and kindergarten teachers needing a funny children's book to share with their classrooms during story time.
This joke book
Goofy, groan-y jokes that kids (and sharks) will read and share over and over.Cool, full-page cartoon pictures of sharks in silly scenarios!Enough fun to be a surefire hit as a birthday gift, stocking stuffer, and more.
Find out what tickles a shark's funny bone (funny fin?) with How to Make a Shark Laugh.
And explore the whole series of How to Make Them Laugh kids' joke books, including How to Make a Unicorn Laugh, How to Make a Ninja Laugh, How to Make an Astronaut Laugh, and How to Make a Penguin Laugh.
39 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 10, 2025
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November 8, 2024
A few silly what I call "For Kids Who Will Tell Future Dad/Uncle or Aunt" Jokes. Everything is simple and big and cute. The robot book was a smidgen funnier in my book, but this works as well.
August 8, 2025
How To Make A Shark Laugh joins several other titles in the How to Make Them Laugh series by Chris Cate. I’ve got mixed thoughts about this book and the series as a whole. I get what they’re going for - a joke book series appealing to a younger audience, but the target age range (4-8) doesn’t make sense for jokes that are primarily puns or plays on words. A lot of these jokes even went over my six-year-old’s head.
Take the “so-fish-ticated” joke, for example. Funny? Sure, but how many four-year-olds know the word “sophisticated”? Even if they know the vocabulary, they have to connect it to the idea, too, which is another hurdle to clear on the way to the punchline. For the most part, this book ended up with me explaining shark jokes to my kids and sucking all the fun out of it.
My other chief complaint is the length. There’s very little to this book. There’s no storyline and only a handful of corny shark-related jokes. Compare that to a typical joke book that’s going to have dozens or even hundreds of jokes. Sure, they don’t usually have pictures, but the illustrations add next to nothing to the value of the text with this title anyway.
I think this has a market as a gift for a kid that is shark-obsessed, but beyond that, there’s not much point to it, and it’s not really ideal for the intended age group..
Take the “so-fish-ticated” joke, for example. Funny? Sure, but how many four-year-olds know the word “sophisticated”? Even if they know the vocabulary, they have to connect it to the idea, too, which is another hurdle to clear on the way to the punchline. For the most part, this book ended up with me explaining shark jokes to my kids and sucking all the fun out of it.
My other chief complaint is the length. There’s very little to this book. There’s no storyline and only a handful of corny shark-related jokes. Compare that to a typical joke book that’s going to have dozens or even hundreds of jokes. Sure, they don’t usually have pictures, but the illustrations add next to nothing to the value of the text with this title anyway.
I think this has a market as a gift for a kid that is shark-obsessed, but beyond that, there’s not much point to it, and it’s not really ideal for the intended age group..
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