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Vox Hunt: Funny Book
Share a book that made you laugh.
I am not kidding: I bought this pre-pre-schoolers' book when I was sixteen because I stood in a bookstore in Los Gatos, CA and got uncontrollable giggles everytime I turned the page. When I realized I had to leave the store with the book, I told myself I'd just buy it for my 2-year-old [babysitting] charge. Then I bought two copies, because I just couldn't imagine not having a copy for myself.
I think the most pathetic thing is: there's no plot. It's literally a book full of horizontally bi-sected pages, with a bunch of adjectives on the top half and a noun on the bottom. So, for instance, the example on the cover might say, "Delicious! A cheese and tomato spider!" Keep the spider on the bottom, flip the top page to reveal another picture, perhaps of a strawberry ice cream cone, and now the pages read "Look! A creamy strawberry spider!" Flip the bottom of the page to reveal an old lady, and all of the sudden you get, "Look! A creamy strawberry granny!"
I'm sorry, but there's no logic to it: this book has me in stitches every time I read it. And I have many, many wonderful memories of me and the boy I bought this book for, sitting on his bedroom floor randomly flipping pages with tears running down our faces, we were laughing so hard.
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