Pranklopedia: The Funniest, Grossest, Craziest, Not-Mean Pranks on the Planet!

Every day is April Fools’ Day. Pure heaven for the prankster, Pranklopedia is as indispensable a compilation of pranks as Jokelopedia is a selection of jokes.

Written by longtime Nickelodeon Magazine editor in chief Julie Winterbottom, Pranklopedia is a whole prank encyclopedia. It includes over 70 pranks, with step by step directions; a whole-color, sixteen-page insert of supplementary materials, including “tasty ” soup can labels (mmm, Cream of Sparrow Soup! ) and a “winning ” lottery price ticket; recipes for such crucial prank-stuff as fake snot, fake vomit, fake ice cream; tips about methods to pull the easiest prank; profiles of famous pranks and pranksters; even a prank woven right into the book-spot the fake entries within the Prankster Hall of Fame.

As for the pranks themselves-they are priceless. Classics like short sheeting the bed and the dancing dollar. There may be the crude-mouse turds in ice-and really crude-make fake, suitable for eating dog poop. And there are pranks especially just right to tug in your parents- deliver the “Take Your Teacher Home Day ” letter from school and watch them freak out.

One word of caution: Use not unusual sense in deciding how regularly to make use of Pranklopedia, or you could to find yourself on the lookout for a new place to are living.