The Giant Book of Animal Jokes: Beastly Humor for Grownups

The authors cataloged the old jokes, added variations on them, and invented new ones to produce probably the largest collection of animal jokes ever put on display -- 4,509 of them numbered and scores of them unnumbered puns that appear in the introduction, in section intros, and in multi-pun jokes such as 2013, 3094, 3693.

There are animals from Aardvark to Zyzzyva, animals in daffynitions, mixes, crosses, knock-knocks, Tom Swifties, in the classroom, in the vet s office, at the zoo . . .

There are riddles, puns, and "did-you-hear-the one about" and "why-did-the" jokes.

There are howlers, laughers, smilers, groaners from kindergarten to high school.

And beyond that are some jokes for grownups (groan-ups?): bar scenes, the battle of the sexes, married life, raising children, politics.

The Giant Book was a runner-up in humor in the San Diego Book Awards and the Silver Award winner in humor in the 2006 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards