Tales of Trickery from the Land of Spoof - Softcover

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A collection of humorous tales from a variety of sources.

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Grade 4-6 The practical jokes, hoaxes and parlor tricks Schwartz describes lose something in the retellingmostly, these are pranks for which "you had to be there." The 22 stories relate April Fools' jokes, regional tales, traditional stories, puzzles and more. A few will be familiar, yet even those that are fresh are marred by a lackluster style. Although copious notes and sources are included, rarely do they convey a sense of when these pranks took place. The extensive bibliography lists adult titles almost exclusively, the only exceptions being one out-of-print title and four Schwartz titles. The elegant design of this slim bookopen and clean looking with lots of white space and peppered with attractive pen-and-ink drawingsis in opposition to the more low-brow content. Children may be amused by some of these tricks, and they may be inspired to try some trickery themselves, but overall they will feel slighted by this collection. David Gale, "School Library Journal
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