Teacher: Why does the Statue of Liberty have a book in one hand and a torch in the other?

Student: Because we are not supposed to read in the dark?

Asif Ekram, Class VII, Army School, Barrackpore

Customer: What is the price of a banana?

Shopkeeper: One rupee.

Customer: Will you sell it for 60 paise? Shopkeeper: Are you kidding? You’ll get only the peel for 60 paise.

Customer: Here’s 40 paise. You take the peel and give me the rest.

Aditi Shah, Class V, St Thomas’ Girls School, Calcutta

A man is standing under a street light with his mouth wide open.

Passerby: Why are you standing like that?

Man: My doctor has asked me to eat light.

Srishti Chaudhary, Class V, D.A.V. Public School, NIT Campus, Jamshedpur

Tine: I spend hours in front of the mirror admiring my beauty. Do you think it’s vanity?

Manoj: No, it’s just imagination.

Shaoni Dutta, Class VI, Calcutta Airport English High School

Rishi: Mother, I was asleep Why did you wake me up?

Mummy: I forgot to give you your sleeping pills.

Md Salik, Class VII, St Thomas’ Day School, Calcutta

Teacher: What happened to your homework?

Rahul: I made it into a paper plane and a terrorist hijacked it.

Suraj Banerjee, Class VI, St Xavier’s School, Purulia

Deepu: Want to know a funny coincidence about my parents?

Raja: Sure, what?

Deepu: They were both married at the same time, on the same day, same year, same place — and to each other!

Haradhan Mohanto, Class VII, Vidya Bhavan School, Nagaland

Question: Why was the colour printer thrown out of school?

Answer: It copied.

Sandipan Goswami, Class VI, South Point High School, Calcutta

Question: What did the pineapple say to the mango?

Answer: Now we’re in a jam.

Soham Chatterjee, Class VIII, St Xavier’s School, Durgapur

Karan: What is the difference between a locomotive driver and a teacher?

Samir: The former minds the train; the latter trains the mind.

P. Arvind, Class VIII, St Joseph’s School, Kharagpur

Question: Why did the child study in an aeroplane?

Answer: He wanted higher education.

M. Nivedha, Class IV, Atomic Energy Central School, Jharkhand