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Thank-Yous
We wanted this collection of jokes to be the biggest, best, dopiest, silliest, dumbest one on the planet. But that wouldn’t have been possible without a lot of help from our friends.
The first edition was collected by Ilana Weitzman, Eva Blank, and Rosanne Green, with help from Cy Strom, Michael Redhill, Greg Ioannou, Laura Siberry, Suzanne Brandreth, Vivien Leong, Jane Somerville, Jill Byrant, Sam McKay, Camilla Dietrich, and Jill Kopelman.
I prepared the second edition with help from Beth Doty and Megan Nicolay at Workman, and Andrea Battiston and Greg Ioannou at Colborne Communications. I’d like to particularly thank Barb Webb, who did a lot of the initial planning for how to make the book even funnier. Kids from all over North America sent in some of the coolest jokes in the book and we’d like to thank them. And extra-special thanks to all our joke guinea pigs who had to spend months listening to our worst groaners and stinkiest wisecracks.
This third edition would not have been successful if not for my coworkers at Colborne Communications and Iguana Books, who not only helped with jokes but also listened, laughed, and groaned (more often than not) at my attempts to be funny. And thanks to all my friends and family members for keeping me in stitches with their jokes in the hopes of being put in the book!
Lisa Sparks
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