Punny Jokes To Tell Your Peeps! by Lisa Ayotte is the fourth book in the children's joke book series, all of which follow the same line of puns by a group of craft pom-poms called the Punny Peeps. This installment contains just over thirty individual jokes. The presentation of the jokes is in a full-color setting with each page having the same format. The lead-in question of “What do you call a...” is asked by Peep one, and the punchline is provided by Peep two. The illustrations are actually photographed, small-scale settings where Ayotte, who is also the photographer, has given the pom-pom Peeps sentient characteristics of eyes, feet, noses, and even sometimes glasses and hats, in a toy theater diorama-esque depiction that turns the jokes into a visual experience.

Lisa Ayotte flexes her creative muscles in the putting together of Punny Jokes To Tell Your Peeps! The jokes are clever, my favorite being “Why was the skeleton so calm? Because nothing gets under his skin!” Some of the props used in the photography made me wonder to what lengths Ayotte is willing to go to obtain the needed craft piece. A pogo stick, for example. Where the heck does someone find a three-inch pogo stick? The photos are fun and well-done even though they had slightly less polish to them than other similar children's books. I definitely see the benefit of encouraging arts and crafts in a young generation who will be wholly surrounded by technology and virtually everything the result of mass production. My father used to say that the next generation will know the price of everything but the value of nothing. This book does reinforce the real importance of crafts and craftwork, particularly by a five-year-old with a pom-pom and Elmer's glue on her fingers right at this moment.

Author Lisa Ayotte provides children with some great entertaining fodder to share with their parents, friends, teachers, and those whom they see at their next family gathering in the form of some punny jokes, each accompanied by artwork consisting of stages set with knick-knacks and doodads in the most intricate detail, all good for a laugh. The opening gets things off to a great start with the question: “What do you call a hippo that has a messy room?” The answer, of course, is "A Hippopota-mess!” I also quite enjoyed the answer to the question, “What kind of dog likes to take a bath?” Can you guess? "It is a shampoodle!” Ayotte’s punny jokes even play into that age-old tradition of children loving potty humor, with the likes of the question: “Why did the peeps bring toilet paper to the party?” I’m sure you can guess the answer, which is part of the fun with any good joke, is it not? It is, of course, “Because they were party poopers!”

Lisa Ayotte’s Punny Jokes To Tell Your Peeps! Book 4 is full of jokes that play well with children whose sense of humor is developing, yet for the most part, the jokes seemed new to me. Each includes a play on words—a pun—that makes the joke easy for children to remember for retelling in the future. If your child is a budding stand-up comedian, or if such a child is on your gift list, a copy of Punny Jokes to Tell Your Peeps (Book 4) would certainly be in order.