Product Description

Completely nutty yet effective, this charming book for parents who want to tickle their baby's funnybone--and their own--is like a book of parlor tricks, except that the person who's being entertained is six months old and often as impassive as a stone. Adult readers, especially those harried by the day-to-day details of caring for an infant, will rediscover their own sense of the absurd and delight in the suggestions and illustrations.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #99833 in Books
• Published on: 1997-01-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

Review
97 Ways to Make a Baby Laugh, by New Jersey resident Jack Moore-father of a previously unamused boy named Brick--keeps the chortles coming with a collection of infant-tested sight gags, skits, parlor tricks, and practical jokes. Among the author's suggestions are the "Live Jack-in-the Box" game (featuring Dad), "the Magnet Trick," which involves moving an object across baby's high-chair while holding an undetected magnet underneath, and a "Silly Face Contest." They're a little nutty, require no training, and few props, and are guaranteed to work-with one condition: grown-ups can't hold back. Which means not only will you be tickling Baby's funnybone, but your own as well. -- The Parent Paper

From the Back Cover
Beyond Peek-A-Boo. Nothing pleases new parents more than Baby's first laugh, and here to keep the chortles coming is a collection of infant-tested sight gags, skits, parlor tricks and practical jokes. Try THE LIVE JACK-IN-THE-BOX. THE "SCAMOOCH." BABY'S STINKY FEET. Or THE DISAPPEARING NOODLE (for best results use cappellini al dente). They're a little nutty, require no training and few props (Baby's hat, bubble gum, a polka CD), and are guaranteed to work--on one condition. Grown-ups can't hold back. Which means not only will you be tickling Baby's funny bone, but your own as well.

About the Author
Jack Moore is an advertising consultant and comedy writer. Always the children's entertainer and clown at family gatherings, he perfected his ways to make babies laugh when his son, Brick, was born. Friends and family encouraged Jack to write down his "Infant Laugh Formulas" for other parents.

Penny Gentieu is a New York photographer who has specialized in photographing babies and children for the past twelve years. Her photographs are exhibited and published worldwide, and she has to her credit over 100 magazine covers-Time, Newsweek, American Baby, Baby Talk, New York, USA Weekend, Parents-and a children's book Wow Babies!

Customer Reviews

More Like a Big Silly Greeting Card than a Book
This is a cute title, but the suggestions in this book, as illustrated above, pretty much range from silly to absurd. It's like a greeting card you read once and throw away. If you're looking for games to play with your baby or ways to stimulate him mentally, look elsewhere. If you're so completely unimaginative that you can't make a funny face without reading instructions, look no further ;)

Funny reading - lousy ideas
This book is a great read if you are just looking for a laugh (for yourself, not your baby.)

Only a handful of the ideas are feasible. Unless your husband really wants to wear a giant diaper, or you want grandma to go in a huge box and be a giant jack-in-the box. The ideas are cute and funny, but few are practical. Laughing with your child is a wonderful thing, and enjoying your baby is important, but these ideas are not well-thought out and a waste of your time. Finger plays and tickling sessions will elicit more genuine laugther than throwing random objects out of your window from the 2nd floor, while baby looks out the 1st floor window!

A poor choice at any price!

Great Daddy Shower Gift
I think this is a cute little book. Only fault is it lacks alot of substance, but its silly with great little photos. My husband and I are having our first baby Spring 2002. Some friends of mine are throwing a Daddy Shower for my husband as a gag party, and to make him feel like he is part of it all. I think for $7~or less it's a great little gift idea.