![]() ![]() Q: What’s really easy to get into, and hard to get out of? Q: What do you get when you cross a snowman and a vampire? Q: Nobody empties me, but I never stay full for long. Q: Cats have four, bugs have four, but school has six. Q: I jump when I walk and sit when I stand. What do you call an elephant in Antarctica? Q: What do you call a bear with no teeth? ![]() Q: What’s bright orange with green on top and sounds like a parrot? Q: Without me Thanksgiving and Christmas are incomplete, when I’m on the table everyone tends to overeat. Q: What has a thousand needles but cannot sew? If it laid an egg, would the egg roll to the north or to the south?Ī: It's impossible - roosters don't lay eggs. Q: A rooster is sitting on the roof of a barn facing west. Q: What's something that, the more you take, the more you leave behind? Q: Which question can you never answer "yes" to? Q: What is yours but mostly used by others? Q: What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it? Q: I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. Q: You’ll find me in Mercury, Earth, Mars and Jupiter, but not in Venus or Neptune. Q: What has hands and a face, but can’t hold anything or smile? Q: If you drop me, I’m sure to crack, but smile at me and I’ll smile back. Q: What two things can you never eat for breakfast? Q: What goes in a birdbath but never gets wet? Q: I’m always on the dinner table, but you don’t get to eat me. Q: If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become? Q: I go all around the world, but never leave the corner. Q: What goes up but never comes back down? Q: What appears once in a minute, twice in a moment, but not once in a thousand years? Q: What word begins with E and ends with E, but only has one letter? Save this story for the next time you're waiting for a food order, stuck in the doctor's office, on a long line or any other time you need to keep a kid's mind occupied. We broke them into categories, so you’ll be sure to find the right riddle for your kids. There are real head-scratchers for the older kids, sidesplitting puns for the younger crowd and even a little math thrown in there. If you're just getting started, these are the best riddles for kids. (No knock-knock joke setups here.) So, even if they have a punchline, there's still some kind of wordplay involved that needs to be worked out. But a riddle is a statement or question that has multiple meanings and needs to be solved. Sometimes it can be hard to separate riddles for kids and jokes for kids, because the answers can make you feel like you've just heard one of the corniest dad jokes. Riddles also help kids work on their logic and critical thinking skills, practice their vocabulary, stretch their problem-solving muscles and sometimes even give them a good laugh or an a-ha moment when they've reached the solution. Below, I’ve curated a list of 15 memorable manga titles for middle schoolers.There are so many joys to seeing kids work out a good riddle in their minds. Manga provides accessible, fun, relatable, and earnest stories that can help with this. As school assignments become more advanced, it’s important for tweens to have outlets for maintaining their enjoyment in reading. I see middle school as a crucial age for reading. For those new to manga, we’ve got you covered with this Rioter’s handy beginner’s guide to manga. Amanda Pagan, a Children’s Librarian at the New York Public Library, gives a nuanced explanation of the thought and consideration that goes into selecting great manga titles for middle school readers. Sara Smith’s reviews include notes about intended audience and age appropriateness, which can be especially helpful when selecting titles for middle grade and younger readers. When it comes to manga selection, I’ve found some helpful librarian resources, including Ashley Hawkins’s blog, Manga Librarian and Sara Smith’s blog, The Graphic Library. As a longtime fan of anime, I love reading the manga that my favorite anime are adapted from, too. (Oh, how I miss the days of Waldenbooks.) Ever since, the gorgeous art, lovable characters, and fantastical and heartfelt journeys in manga has drawn me in every time. I first began reading manga in middle school when I discovered the InuYasha series at a Waldenbooks in the mall. Megan currently works in a high school library and hopes to publish a romance novel one day. She savors nap time to squeeze in some reading and writing (and coffee!). She enjoys board gaming, rewatching Miyazaki movies, and building elaborate train sets with her toddler. Megan Mabee has been filling notebooks with her story ideas since she first began reading. ![]()
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