I love how Judi Barrett and Ron Barrett use humor to teach vocabulary in Animals should definitely not act like people. The entire text is one sentence! "Animals should definitely not act like people . . . because it would be preposterous for a panda, . . .". Each page of text begins with "because", and each illustration is hilarious. It seems to me that many contemporary picture books for children evade advanced vocabulary. Simultaneously, educators are crying out for complex texts. I propose that we look back at some of the older picture books like this one, published in 1980, for content. Yes, we need to sift out content that is outdated--or engage in conversation about how life has changed.
A Time for Speech has a 43-page Joke of the Week. The AAC Spot has an AAC lesson targeting Core Vocabulary that involves humor. Brown-Eyed Books has The World Without the Alphabet "A"
