Pranklopedia

Young jokesters will find this book packed with more than seventy pranks meant to fool, tickle, or irritate the people they live with and the friends they see every day. Ideas range from a homework trick and a squirting blister to popcorn that seems to fight back. Siblings can be targeted with old favorites, such as remaking a bed so the sheet is short, while friends can be surprised by a banana that peels itself and cookies with silly fortunes.

Parents are not spared. Readers get a plan for fooling the family about the computer, and the book includes recipes for gross-looking imitations of bird droppings, dog droppings, vomit, and several kinds of snot. Forty pages of cutouts supply fake food labels, a counterfeit winning lottery ticket, phony bathroom signs, and school letters likely to make parents wince.

The book also teaches the basics of a well-timed prank through a four-step lesson, and it explains how to handle things when a joke goes wrong.