Victorian Children Facts & Jokes

Victorian Children Facts & Jokes

Author: John Townsend

Publisher: The Salariya Book Company

Published: 2021-02-09

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1912537850

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Truly Foul & Cheesy is a bestselling series of hilarious, fact-packed information books that will have young readers laughing as they’re learning. In this title, quirky illustrations and bite-sized text provide an accessible and entertaining introduction to the often awful lives of Victorian children: the painful punishments at school and the very dangerous jobs they performed in factories, workhouses and up chimneys. Hold onto your sides and dive in!


Be Funny or Die

Be Funny or Die

Author: Joel Morris

Publisher: Unbound Publishing

Published: 2024-03-07

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1800183119

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Comedy is a game that all humans play. There are big social prizes if you win, but it is easy to end up with custard pie on your face... or worse. Comedy can soothe our pain, vent our anger, make us feel less alone and provide the answer to life’s most difficult questions, such as, ‘What do you call a man with a seagull on his head?’* It’s a social glue but it can also be divisive, and the joke is on us if we don’t understand how it works. So, what are the rules? How does comedy do its magic and why does it matter? Join professional comedy writer Joel Morris on a hilarious journey into the hidden world of shared laughter where he reveals the mechanisms that make jokes work and what comedy can teach us about ourselves. Offering astute analysis of everything from stand-up to slapstick and sitcom to spoof, Morris examines comedic patterns, rhythms and dynamics to uncover the algorithms that secretly underpin comedy. Packed with gags and examples of comedy at its best – plus some invaluable tips on how to master that b’dum tish timing – Be Funny or Die is a fascinating investigation into how our species has developed and mastered this essential art form where laughter is the universal language and only the funniest survive. *Cliff.


Neo-Victorian Humour

Neo-Victorian Humour

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-06-06

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9004336613

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This volume highlights humour’s crucial role in shaping historical re-visions of the long nineteenth century, through modes ranging from subtle irony, camp excess, ribald farce, and aesthetic parody to blackly comic narrative games. It analyses neo-Victorian humour’s politicisation, its ideological functions and ethical implications across varied media, including fiction, drama, film, webcomics, and fashion. Contemporary humour maps the assumed distance between postmodernity and its targeted nineteenth-century referents only to repeatedly collapse the same in a seemingly self-defeating nihilistic project. This collection explores how neo-Victorian humour generates empathy and effective socio-political critique, dispensing symbolic justice, but also risks recycling the past’s invidious ideologies under the politically correct guise of comic debunking, even to the point of negating laughter itself. "This rich and innovative collection invites us to reflect on the complex and various deployments of humour in neo-Victorian texts, where its consumers may wish at times that they could swallow back the laughter a scene or event provokes. It covers a range of approaches to humour utilised by neo-Victorian writers, dramatists, graphic novelists and filmmakers – including the deliberately and pompously unfunny, the traumatic, the absurd, the ribald, and the frankly distasteful – producing a richly satisfying anthology of innovative readings of ‘canonical’ neo-Victorian texts as well as those which are potential generic outliers. The collection explores what is funny in the neo-Victorian and who we are laughing at – the Victorians, as we like to imagine them, or ourselves, in ways we rarely acknowledge? This is a celebration of the parodic playfulness of a wide range of texts, from fiction to fashion, whilst offering a trenchant critique of the politics of postmodern laughter that will appeal to those working in adaptation studies, gender and queer studies, as well as literary and cultural studies more generally." - Prof. Imelda Whelehan, University of Tasmania, Australia


Wimpy Kid Jokes About Love & Valentines!

Wimpy Kid Jokes About Love & Valentines!

Author: Marcus Stuart

Publisher: Marcus Stuart

Published: 2015-01-02

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13:

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Q: What do Star Wars characters say to each other on Valentine's Day? A: You’re the obi-one for me! Kids love to hear and tell jokes with friends and family. Just Kidding About Love & Valentines! LOL Jokes, Riddles, Fun Trivia and Quotes on Love provides hours of fun reading, riddles, jokes, Valentines trivia and most importantly laughter. The perfect gift idea for any child to further inspire reading and laughter with friends and family. Unlike most children’s joke books, Just Kidding books contain a wealth of other interesting facts, trivia and information to engage old and young readers alike. This book includes: - over 100 Valentine’s jokes and riddles - Valentine’s knock-knock jokes - Curious Valentine’s Superstitions & Traditions - Valentine’s Day Trivia created by the Just Kidding Kid Team - Crazy Kissing Facts & Trivia created by the Just Kidding Kid Team - Top Valentine’s Phobias - Historical and Cultural Facts about Valentine's Day - Great quotes on Love created by the Just Kidding Kid Team Sections are organized into categories for easy access and reference. Recommended for ages 7 – 12 and big kids (adults) who don’t take themselves too seriously!


The Victorian World

The Victorian World

Author: Ginger S. Frost

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2018-09-20

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13:

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An introduction to the myths and realities of the history of Victorian Britain, with accompanying primary sources. While the Victorian era captivates many today, much of what people believe about the Victorian world is actually false. This book looks at nine specific myths about Victorian Britain, explaining how the myths perpetuated and then showing why they are inaccurate. Coverage spans 1830–1914, from shortly before Victoria's reign to World War I. The book is organized in three sections, beginning with social issues, then cultural ones, and ending with politics and war. The social sections pull in the reader by discussing the most common myths about the Victorians—their sexual prudery, strict gender roles, and infamous views of the family—while offering counterpoints to the myths. The cultural section moves into humor, criminal justice issues, and race, and the political section caps the book with discussions of the Industrial Revolution, foreign affairs, and war. Included are a large number of primary source documents showing how the misconceptions became popular, along with evidence for what scholars now believe to be the truths behind the myths.


Sir Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders Joke Book

Sir Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders Joke Book

Author: Sir Tony Robinson

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2017-03-09

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1509850848

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An epic historical joke and fact book from TV legend Sir Tony Robinson, author of the bestselling The Worst Children's Jobs in History and the Weird World of Wonders series. Sir Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders Joke Book is hilarious historical fun! Q: How did the Vikings send secret messages? A: Norse code! Q: Why were the early days of history called the Dark Ages? A: Because there were so many knights. Plus many many more!


The Victorian Era in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Adolescent Literature and Culture

The Victorian Era in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Adolescent Literature and Culture

Author: Sonya Sawyer Fritz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-01-19

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1351376276

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Victorian literature for audiences of all ages provides a broad foundation upon which to explore complex and evolving ideas about young people. In turn, this collection argues, contemporary works for young people that draw on Victorian literature and culture ultimately reflect our own disruptions and upheavals, particularly as they relate to child and adolescent readers and our experiences of them. The essays therein suggest that we struggle now, as the Victorians did then, to assert a cohesive understanding of young readers, and that this lack of cohesion is a result of or a parallel to the disruptions taking place on a larger (even global) scale.


Ha! Ha! Ha!

Ha! Ha! Ha!

Author: Lyn Thomas

Publisher: Maple Tree

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781897066126

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Offers a collection of riddles, jokes, optical illusions, brainteasers, puzzles, and facts.


The Impact of Victorian Children's Fiction

The Impact of Victorian Children's Fiction

Author: J. S. Bratton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-09-07

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1317365623

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Originally published in 1981. Many of the classics of children’s literature were produced in the Victorian period. But Alice in Wonderland and The King of the Golden River were not the books offered to the majority of children of the time. When writing for children began to be taken seriously, it was not as an art, but as an instrument of moral suasion, practical instruction, Christian propaganda or social control. This book describes and evaluates this body of literature. It places the books in the economic and social contexts of their writing and publication, and considers many of the most prolific writers in detail. It deals with the stories intended to teach the newly-literate poor their social and religious lessons: sensational romances, tales of adventure and military glory, through which the boys were taught the value of self-help and inspired with the ideals of empire; and domestic novels, intended to offer girls a model for the expression of heroism and aspiration within the restricted Victorian woman’s world.


Evolution and Imagination in Victorian Children's Literature

Evolution and Imagination in Victorian Children's Literature

Author: Jessica Straley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-06-06

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1316531325

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Evolutionary theory sparked numerous speculations about human development, and one of the most ardently embraced was the idea that children are animals recapitulating the ascent of the species. After Darwin's Origin of Species, scientific, pedagogical, and literary works featuring beastly babes and wild children interrogated how our ancestors evolved and what children must do in order to repeat this course to humanity. Exploring fictions by Rudyard Kipling, Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Charles Kingsley, and Margaret Gatty, Jessica Straley argues that Victorian children's literature not only adopted this new taxonomy of the animal child, but also suggested ways to complete the child's evolution. In the midst of debates about elementary education and the rising dominance of the sciences, children's authors plotted miniaturized evolutions for their protagonists and readers and, more pointedly, proposed that the decisive evolutionary leap for both our ancestors and ourselves is the advent of the literary imagination.