Noah loves to be funny. It all started when he was a baby.
He was always doing funny things even when he didn’t realize it. He used to ham
it up big time when he was a baby. If you look at his many baby pictures, you
will notice all of the huge smiles. Laughter is really important in our home.
Noah and I enjoy telling jokes together. We also enjoy giving each other
riddles to solve. Let’s face it though, it can be hard to come up with jokes on
your own. Who has time to Google jokes anyways? A lot of those jokes are not
kid friendly either. Noah likes to read joke books and entertain me. I made a
rule not to really sit and read them so I can genuinely react to the joke. I
like to open a joke book and share a joke or two with him. If I see something
funny on Facebook or Twitter I will tell him about it. He loves being goofy
with me. We do all kinds of silly things like tell jokes, do riddles, dance
ridiculously to the Chicken Dance and make sock puppets together.
I learned about two
new books that I think Noah would enjoy. “Little Book-Big Laughs” Knock Knock Book
which is a book full of hilarious knock knock jokes and “Little Book- Big
Laughs” Riddle Book. Not only do they
help promote laughter and happiness in everyone but they help fund medical
grants for children whose medical needs are not fully funded through private
insurance. Halloween will be here soon, so why not pick up a few copies of each
and hand them out to your little pumpkins as they Trick-or-Treat. It would be a
hair raising fun time!
With the help from children nationwide, the
UnitedHealthcare Children’s Foundation (UHCCF) has collected knock-knock jokes
and riddles for two new joke books available today, on World Smile Day.
The joke books not only provide smiles
and laughter, but also help fund child medical grants for families in need.
Proceeds from the sales of the books will help fund UHCCF grants that help
families pay for children’s medical expenses not covered, or not fully covered,
by a commercial health insurance plan. Since 2007, UHCCF has funded more than
10,000 medical grants totaling more than $29 million.
The books – “Little Book - Big Laughs” Riddle Book and “Little Book - Big Laughs” Knock-Knock Book include more
than 350 knock-knock jokes and 500 riddles submitted by kids – for kids. The
books are ideal for children ages 4 to12, but can be enjoyed by people of all
ages.
Why do bicycles fall over?
Because they are two
tired
What can you see in the water that
doesn’t get wet?
Your reflection
Knock
Knock
Knock Knock
who’s
there?
who’s there?
Bashful
NormaLee
Bashful who?
Norma
Lee
who?
I can’t tell you, I’m so
embarrassed
Norma Lee I don’t go around knocking
on doors, but I just had to meet you
The “Little Book – Big Laughs” books are
available at Amazon.com for $5.99 each.
“The inspiration behind these books is to
bring smiles and laughter to children, whether in a hospital, in the car or
just hanging out with friends and family,” said UHCCF President Matt Peterson.
“Earlier this month, we awarded our 10,000th medical grant, and the
proceeds from these books will help us further our mission of helping
thousands’ more families in the years ahead.”
The first Little Book-Big Laughs joke book was
released April Fools' Day 2014 and was a Mom’s Choice Gold Award recipient for
juvenile books. The success of the first book propelled the idea to create two
additional books for a joke book series.
In addition to the joke books, UHCCF publishes
and sells the award-winning Oliver & Hope’s storybooks, along with other
fun child toys and products; all available at Amazon. UHCCF recently added two more characters to the
Oliver & Hope™ series of super-soft stuffed toys – Charlotte the
fox and Hugo the dragon. Proceeds from the books and toys help fund
UHCCF child medical grants.
