Searching for **funny** books for all grade levels

[mathmarm]

We've been cooped up waaaaay too long. We need a list of funny books. they can be picture books, or chapter books just need funny books. Please, no gross humor.

Edited May 24, 2020 by mathmarm

[Lori D.]

A few of these may be younger than you're looking for.

series
Wayside series (Sachar)
13-Story Treehouse series (Griffiths)
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series (MacDonald)
McBroom series (Fleishman)
Strange Case of Origami Yoda (Angleberger) -- and others by him
Kung Pow Chicken series (Marko)
Dragon Breath series (Vernon)
Hamster Princess series (Vernon)
The Princess in Black series (Hale)
Hank the Cowdog series
Bunnicula series (Howe)
Time Warp Trio series -- the occasional "passing gas" humor, but most of the humor is good clean funny

individual titles
Fortunately, the Milk (Gaiman)
Henry Huggins; Henry and Ribsy (Cleary)
By The Great Horn Spoon (Fleischman)
The Whipping Boy (Fleischman)
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Robinson)
Trumpet of the Swan (White)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Kinney)

picture books
Doug Cushman "Mystery of..." series: King Karfu; Monkey's Maze; Sandwich Club

bonus ideas:
Calvin & Hobbes cartoon collections
Edward Eager magic books (Half Magic; Magic by the Lake; Knight's Castle; The Time Garden; Seven Day Magic) -- we all adored the humor in these, but they are at a 5th-6th grade level, so maybe just above your child's comfortable solo reading level -- but great for reading aloud.

Edited May 24, 2020 by Lori D.

[mathmarm]

Thanks for the suggestions--keep 'em coming. I removed the grade level, because I think it'll be more beneficial to have funny books regardless of their level/

[ElizaG]

Picture books:

Me First (by Helen Lester)

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

 

Chapter books:

The Peterkin Papers

Three Men in a Boat
 

Poetry:

Cautionary Tales for Children (by Hilaire Belloc)

Poems by Ogden Nash

Edward Lear’s Nonsense Works

 

 

[J-rap]

I don't know how old your youngest are, but my dd and I laughed many times when we read this one out loud together when she was around 7:

https://www.amazon.com/Gretchens-hill-Jeannette-Eyerly/dp/B0007E1QSY

This is just so you can see the cover 🙂:

https://www.abebooks.com/signed/Gretchens-Hill-Eyerly-Jeannette-J.B-Lippincott/22397857990/bd

 

[Quarter Note]

Homer Price by Robert McCloskey

The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill

[ScoutTN]

Half Magic and all the sequels! 

[Momto6inIN]

On 5/24/2020 at 9:13 AM, OKBud said:

All Creatures Great and Small is hilarious. There is some grossness, but that's by dint of dealing with farm animals, not because of base potty humor. 

This is what I was going to say too!

We had just started it when quarantine started and my D'S came home from college and he and I enjoyed it just as much as adults as the high schoolers and younger kids did.