National Geographic books are always a big hit with our family. The combination of brightly coloured photos, short, sharp text and on brand theming makes them a go to for family events and trips.

The Christmas Joke Book is no exception, and we found the jokes hilarious (even at the wrong time of year!). It would make a great gift to give, or to bring out at parties to keep everyone entertained!

A great joke book for kids, my son loves a joke book and really enjoyed this one. a great Christmas gift for the wee comedian in your life.

We all know the stereotype of crackers having dreadful jokes in, well here's the book form. 300 groaners, with very little joy for the real joke connoisseur, but plenty for the young wisecracker to say out loud and hope to gain a titter from. It's colourful, with photos galore and some trivia factoids about the season too, but the heart of it is the gags, with their punchlines presented upside down just in case we're answering along as we go.

However, just when you give up on things and leave this for the very junior members of the family, you get a kind of Tim Vine humdinger, that you can easily imagine more people saying and more people enjoying. "I have this incredible ability to predict what's inside a wrapped present. It's a gift." "My only present was a deck of sticky playing cards. I find that hard to deal with." Now, these, for being dry and classy and clever, stick out like a sore thumb from the primary school wordplay, and at least keep you on your toes. I guess it's a way of making sure that here is something for everyone – we do get some gentle seasonal riddles as well, after all. It's just that the rest can feel off, and I mean thoroughly off – I've seen better quips written by AI than some of these. If this was intended to be a right Christmas pudding, a complete mixture with a lot of ripeness to it, then it succeeded. For me it's not something I'd cast my mince pies over often.

Christmas Joke Book is a fun book for kids who love a little humour over the holidays. There are a lot of laugh out loud jokes and it is sure to help get kids into the holiday spirit this year. Definitely add this book to your gift giving list!

My review was published on 25/6/24 at: https://www.equinoxx.info/2024/06/nat-geo-christmas-jokes.html

It is exactly six months until Christmas Day, so - in today's post - I am going to review a festive-themed book that is scheduled to be published in September.

Whilst looking through a list of titles available to read - and review - on the NetGalley website a few weeks ago, I immediately stopped at the National Geographic Kids Christmas Joke Book.

'Perfect,' I thought.

Every Christmas, for the past few years, I have found myself taking out a Christmas joke book and sharing the jokes with friends. The amount of groans they have generated have been countless. Seeing the National Geographic book available to review meant one thing: more ammunition for Christmastime.

The book is filled with tons of jokes. Many I am sure will get the desired 'groan' reaction when I share them in the build up to the big day.

But, that's not all.

The people at the National Geographic have included a plethora of facts within the pages. I thought these were a bonus because I managed to learn some things I didn't know about before. Like, for example, there are 300 Million mince pies eaten every Christmastime.

So, yes, I will absolutely enjoy opening this book back up in a little under six months from bow even though I am far older than the target age of seven years or above.

The National Geographic Christmas Joke Book would make for a perfect holiday gift. However, I feel it would best be given as something to hand over in the build up to Christmas rather than on the day. Gifting it early will allow children to seek out the best (or worst!) Christmas jokes to execute during family gatherings. They'll also be able to gather up the facts that are scattered across the book's pages.

Thank you to Collins & Net Galley for the ARC

A fun, amusing, entertaining concept. The main flaw in a digital format is the fact that all the answers are upside down, so it's really not convenient nor seamless at all to read them all on screen. It would be far easier to leaf through the book using a paper-based book that you can turn over.
So, "Christmas Joke Book" is an inspiring piece, just not easily usable in all formats.

My daughter loves these books and we spent half term laughing (or groaning) through these ones!
Some very typical Christmas cracker jokes, but plenty of new ones we havnt heard before.
Great book