Halcyon Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Something funny preferred. Recently published literature welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmos Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos? I'm reading it right now, and it's hilarious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veritaserum Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 The Phantom Tollbooth is funny if you like word play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Sisters Grimm. It's a series--you could start it and they could finish it. It has a lot of fairy tale characters that have really funny twists. Sid Fleishman's stuff is good, too--Chancey and the Grand Rascal is our favorite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancingmama Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 I'll second Sisters Grimm. I did it as a read-aloud a couple years back. We loved it so much, I read the whole series outloud because I wanted to know what happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amyco Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Stick and Whittle by Sid Hite. We all thought it was very funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marbel Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 We loved the Eddie Dickens trilogy by Philip Ardagh. Total silliness. The audio by Martin Rayner is fabulous. We are still referring to Mad Aunt Maude, Malcolm the Stoat, and many other characters and moments. The House at Awful End is the first book. ETA: I was just looking it up and saw it is for kids 5 - 7. Hmm... my kids were older than that the first time we listened to it, and we all loved it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
school17777 Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 The Indian in the Cupboard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Marianne Malone's 68 Rooms series. They are a little educational, a little adventure, a little historic fiction, and a lot of fun. My kids LOVED them. Also, The Westing Game? Too serious? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Random Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 The Penderwicks The Great Brain Series Detectives in Togas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kolamum Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Ereth's Birthday. My children roared with laugher over the book & constantly begged for more. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emerald Stoker Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Alan Cumyn, The Secret Life of Owen Skye (and the two sequels). Tim Wynne-Jones, Rex Zero series. Howard Whitehouse, The Strictest School in the World, The Faceless Fiend, The Island of Mad Scientists. John Fardell, Seven Professors of the Far North, Flight of the Silver Turtle, Secret of the Black Moon Moth. Polly Horvath, The Pepins and their Problems, The Trolls, Everything on a Waffle, Mr and Mrs Bunny Detectives Extraordinaire...etc. Noel Langley, Land of Green Ginger Iain Lawrence, The Seance Rachna Gilmore, That Boy Red ETA a couple of suggestions from a junior member of the household: Alan Snow's Ratbridge Chronicles and Kaye Umansky's books (The Silver Spoon of Solomon Snow et al.). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maize Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Any Gordon Korman book. I Want To Go Home, Son of Interflux, Don't Care High, Something's fishy at Macdonald Hall... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 A Long Way from Chicago is hilarious but also well written. Fake Mustache by Tom Angleberger had us dying of laughter. Seconding The Great Brain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shukriyya Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Dominic Homer Price Wind in the Willows Hobbit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alte Veste Academy Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 A Whole Nother Story was a great read-aloud, very funny! The kids loved it enough to immediately request the sequel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibraryLover Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 The BFG & The Witches by Roald Dahl are fun to read aloud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veritaserum Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Another one my kids enjoyed is The Reluctant Dragon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FriedClams Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 The Great Turkey Walk The Pushcart Wars (we read this years ago and still quote it) Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (and others by Lin) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc26 Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 We also thought Angleberger's Fake Mustache was hilarious. DS1 also recently liked The Name of the Book is Secret. Younger DS & I are reading Mousenet, and Older DS and I are about to start The Fantastic Family Whipple, which I looks light and entertaining. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halcyon Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share Posted December 30, 2013 Thanks for all of these! We began Dead ENd in Norvelt last night--so far so good! We will definitely be downloading others :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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