Kusel Puns

Hello my name is Susan Kusel. I am excited to be doing this AMA today. I wear lots of hats, most of having with books and Judaism.

I recently published my debut picture book The Passover Guest, illustrated by Sean Rubin with Neal Porter Books/Holiday House.

I am the librarian at Temple Rodef Shalom in Falls Church, Virginia, the children's book buyer for [words] Bookstore in Maplewood, New Jersey and the owner of Dream On Books, a book consulting company.

I was a member of the 2015 Caldecott Medal selection committee and was the chair of the Sydney Taylor Book Award committee. I am a former board member of the Association of Jewish Libraries.

With other friends from the Association of Jewish Libraries, I co-founded the Jewish Kidlit Mavens group on Facebook and The Sydney Taylor Shmooze mock award blog.

You can find out more about me here: http://susankusel.com/

Delighted to be here and looking forward to answering questions!

Come join Susan Kusel this Feb 15th at 6pm est for an AMA

>I’ve been writing for a long time and am excited to finally have my first picture book published. It’s been a long road. By the time it comes out, The Passover Guest will have taken 9 years from start to finish. Hopefully, I’ll be able to get the next book published a little quicker! I am deeply appreciative of everyone who has helped the book make it to this point. I’m a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.  I love being a librarian. I am currently a synagogue librarian and have also been a children’s librarian at a public library. I am very active in the American Library Association, the Association for Library Service to Children and the Association of Jewish Libraries. I have served on many award committees including the Maryland Blue Crab Young Reader Award committee, the Cybils and as chair of the Sydney Taylor Book Award committee. The most amazing professional experience I’ve ever had was serving on the 2015 Caldecott Medal selection committee.  I’ve been a bookseller for over a decade at many stores including Politics & Prose Bookstore, Child’s Play and am currently the children’s book buyer at [words] Bookstore in Maplewood, New Jersey. I’m involved with the American Booksellers Association and the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association. Bookstores are incredibly fun places and it’s been such a joy working at so many wonderful ones.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

When I got home, they were still there.

I won't be doing that today!

[Removed]

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

You take away their little brooms

So the men have some quiet time to think of the solution.

Why

It’s pronounced “Noel.”