Books That Make Kids (and Adults) Laugh
In the spirit of full disclosure, I have not read all of these books. Yet. But even if I had, you may not find them funny at all. Humor is subjective, which in this case means “don’t-call-me-and-tell-me-you-don’t-think-it’s-funny.” You can, however, add your favorite funny book in the comments section below. As often as I can, I’ll add new funny titles.
The titles are simply alphabetical by author without regard to the age they’re intended. I didn’t necessarily list all the books by a particular author.
This list is just a random jumping off place. We can think of ourselves as Reading Lemmings. Or not. There are oodles of funny books and more being published every day. Remember, if you like one book by a certain author, you’ll probably like any others they’ve written.
So keep your eyes peeled and your knees and elbows in the car at all times.
Douglas Adams – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Harry Allard – Miss Nelson is Missing!
Harry Allard – The Stupids Have A Ball
Suzanne Altman – My Worst Days Diary
MT Anderson – Feed
Sandy Asher – Too Many Frogs!
Richard Atwater – Mr Popper’s Penguins
Mary Jane Auch – I Was a 3rd Grade Science Project
Avi – Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?
Judi Barrett – Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Joan Bauer – Rules of the Road
Joan Bauer – Squashed
Darleen Beard – The Flimflam Man
Karen Beaumont – Baby Danced the Polka
Tom Birdseye – I’m Going to be Famous
Judy Blume – Double Fudge
Judy Blume – Freckle Juice
Judy Blume – Superfudge
Frank Cottrell Boyce – Millions
Herbie Brennan – Fairy Nuff: A Tale of Bluebell Wood
Emily Brennen – On The First Day of Grade School
Jeff Brown – Flat Stanley
Mary Brown – Pigs Don’t Fly
Eve Bunting – Nasty Stinky Sneakers
Ellis Parker Butler – Pigs Is Pigs
Betsy Byars – The Not-Just-Anybody Family
Georgia Byng – Molly Moon’s Incredible Book of Hypnotism
Meg Cabot – The Princess Diaries
Deborah Chandra – George Washington’s Teeth
Gennifer Choldenko – Al Capone Does My Shirts
Catherine Clark – Truth or Dairy
Beverly Cleary – Henry Huggins
Beverly Cleary – Ramona the Pest
Andrew Clements – Frindle
Andrew Clements – The Landry News
Eth Clifford – Harvey’s Horrible Snake Disaster
Ellen Conford – A Job for Jenny Archer
Ellen Conford – Annabel the Actress Starring in “Gorilla My Dreams”
Ellen Conford – Jenny Archer to the Rescue
Scott Corbett – The Lemonade Trick
Bill Cosby – Cosbyology: Essays and Observations From the Doctor of Comedy
Bruce Coville – Juliet Dove, Queen of Love
Judy Cox – Weird Stories from the Lonesome Café
Sharon Creech – A Fine, Fine School
Sharon Creech – Absolutely Normal Chaos
Betsy Cromer Byars – The Cybil War
Chris Crutcher – King of the Mild Frontier
Christopher Paul Curtis – Bucking The Sarge
Christopher Paul Curtis – Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis – The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Jane Cutler – No Dogs Allowed
Roald Dahl – Matilda
Roald Dahl – The BFG
Roald Dahl – The Twits
Paula Danziger – Get Ready for Second Grade, Amber Brown
Paula Danziger – It’s a Fair Day, Amber Brown
Paula Danziger – Make Like a Tree and Leave
Paula Danziger – This Place Has No Atmosphere
Lawrence David – Horace Splattly: The Cupcaked Crusader
Donald Davis – Barking at a Fox-Fur Coat
Michael Delaney – Birdbrain Amos
Michael Delaney – Deep Doo-Doo
Narinder Dhami – Bindi Babes
Kate DiCamillo – The Tale of Despereaux
Kelly DiPucchio – Bed Hogs
Betsy Duffey – Cody’s Secret Admirer
Gerald Durrell – My Family and Other Animals
Julie Andrews Edwards – The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
Wallace Edwards – Monkey Business
David Elliott – Evangeline Mudd & the Golden-Haired Apes of the Ikkinasti Jungle
Ian Falconer – Olivia
John Fitzgerald – The Great Brain
Paul Fleischman – A Fate Totally Worse Than Death
Sid Fleischman – Humbug Mountain
Sid Fleischman – The 13th Floor: A Ghost Story
Michael Fleming – The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History
Kristine L. Franklin – Nerd No More
Martha Freeman – The Trouble with Cats，96 pages
Jackie French – Diary of a Wombat ，32 pages
Laurie Friedman – Mallory on the Move， 160 pages
Neil Gaiman – Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Jack Gantos – What Would Joey Do?
John Reynolds Gardiner – Top Secret
Carmen Lomas Garza – In My Family/En Mi Familia
Gail Gauthier – My Life Among the Aliens
Rita Golden Gelman – Doodler Doodling
Stella Gibbons – Cold Comfort Farm
William Goldman – Princess Bride
Jean Gralley – Hogula, Dread Pig of Night
Constance Greene – Isabelle the Itch
Stephanie Greene – Owen Foote, Super Spy
Sheila Greenwald – Mariah Delany’s Author of the Month Club
Sheila Greenwald – Rosy Cole’s Worst Ever, Best Yet Tour of New York City
Bill Grossman – My Little Sister Ate One Hare
Karen Rostoker Gruber – Rooster Can’t Cock-a-Doodle-Doo
Dan Gutman – Miss Daisy is Crazy!
Dan Gutman – Mrs. Roopy is Loopy!
Dan Gutman – The Kid Who Ran for President
Jessie Haas – Clean House
Charles H. Haddad – Meet Calliope Day
Margaret Peterson Haddix – Say What?
Bruce Hale – the Chet Gecko Mysteries
Daniel Hayes – Flyers
Kevin Henkes – Julius, the Baby of the World
Kevin Henkes – Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse
Charlotte Herman – Max Malone and the Great Cereal Rip-off
Patricia Hermes – Kevin Corbett Eats Flies
James Herriot – All Creatures Great and Small
Carl Hiaasen – Flush
Carl Hiaasen – Hoot
Ann Hodgman – My Babysitter is a Vampire
Natalie Honeycutt – Granville Jones, Commando
Polly Horvath – The Canning Season
Deborah and James Howe – Bunnicula
James Howe – Pinky and Rex
Norma Howe – Adventures of Blue Avenger
Dean Hughes – Nutty the Movie Star
Thacher Hurd – Art Dog
Johanna Hurwitz – Elisa in the Middle
David Ives – Scrib
Oliver Jeffers – How to Catch a Star
Diana Wynne Jones – Dark Lord of Derkholm
Norton Juster – The Phantom Tollbooth
Maira Kallman – Sayonara, Mrs. Kackleman
Steven Kellogg – Pinkerton Behave
Tim Kennemore – Circle of Doom
M.E. Kerr – Him She Loves?
Eric Kimmel – Website of the Cracked Cookies
Suzy Kline – Horrible Harry in Room 2B
Suzy Kline – Marvin and the Mean Words
Suzy Kline – Orp
Barbara Knutson – Love and Roast Chicken
Ron Koertge – Confess-O-Rama
Libby Koponen – Blow Out the Moon
Gordon Korman – Losing Joe’s Place
Gordon Korman – The Chicken Doesn’t Skate
William Kotzwinkle – Walter the Farting Dog
Erik Kraft – Lenny and Mel
Allen Kurzweil – Leon and the Spitting Image
Gary Larson – There’s a Hair in My Dirt! A Worm’s Story
Elmore Leonard – A Coyote’s in the House
Elizabeth Levy – Night of the Living Gerbil
Elizabeth Levy – The Mixed – Up Mask Mystery
Tom Lichtenheld – What Are You So Grumpy About?
Astrid Lindgren – Pippi Longstocking
Sarah Darer Littman – Confessions of a Closet Catholic
Melinda Long – How I Became a Pirate
Maud Hart Lovelace – Betsy-Tacy
Lois Lowry – Anastasia Krupnick
Lois Lowry – Attaboy Sam!
Lois Lowry – Gooney Bird Greene
Lois Lowry – See You Around, Sam!
Patricia MacLachlan – Arthur for the Very First Time
Gregory Maguire – Seven Spiders Spinning
Stephen Manes – Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days
Ann M. Martin – The Meanest Doll in the World
Francis McCall – A Huge Hog is a Big Pig
Robert McCloskey – Homer Price
Megan McDonald – Judy Moody
Alison McGhee – Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth
Susan Meddaugh – Martha Speaks
Jean Merrill – The Toothpaste Millionaire
Marissa Moss – Amelia’s Notebook
Walter Dean Myers – The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor – Beetles, Lightly Toasted
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor – Reluctantly Alice
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor – Starting with Alice
Perry Nodelman – Behaving Bradley
Laura Numeroff – If You Give a Moose a Muffin
Adam Osterweil – The Comic Book Kid
Barbara Park – Operation: Dump the Chump
Barbara Park – Skinnybones
Gary Paulsen – Harris and Me
Gary Paulsen – How Angel Peterson Got His Name
Gary Paulsen – The Schernoff Discoveries
Richard Peck – A Long Way From Chicago: A Novel in Stories
Richard Peck – A Year Down Yonder
Robert Newton Peck – Soup
Daniel Pinkwater – Fat Men From Space
Daniel Pinkwater – The Artsy Smartsy Club
Daniel Pinkwater – The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
Jill Pinkwater – Buffalo Brenda
Turk Pipkin – Be a Clown! The Complete Guide to Instant Clowning
Terry Pratchett – Men at Arms: A Novel of Discworld
Terry Pratchett – The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Jack Prelutsky – The New Kid on the Block
Bonnie Pryor – Vinegar Pancakes and Vanishing Cream
Peggy Rathman – Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathman – 10 Minutes Till Bedtime
Barbara Robinson – The Best School Year Ever
Mary Rodgers – Freaky Friday
Glen Rounds – I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
Glen Rounds – Washday on Noah’s Ark
Louis Sachar – Holes
Louis Sachar – Sideways Stories From Wayside School
Louis Sachar – There’s a Boy in the Girls Bathroom
Jon Scieszka – Knights of the Kitchen Table
Jon Scieszka – The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
Richard Scrimger – The Nose From Jupiter
Jerry Seinfeld – Halloween
Nancy Shaw – Sheep in A Jeep
Allan Sherman – Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah! (A Letter from Camp)
Paul Shipton – Bug Muldoon: The Garden of Fear
Shel Silverstein – Runny Babbitt: A Billy Sook
Marilyn Singer – Josie to the Rescue
William Sleator – Oddballs
Pam Smallcomb – Camp Buccaneer
Dick King Smith – Harry’s Mad
Dick King Smith – Lady Lollipop
Robert Kimmel Smith – Chocolate Fever
Robert Kimmel Smith – The War With Grandpa
Art Spiegelman – Little Lit: Folklore and Fairy Tale Funnies
Jerry Spinelli – Stargirl
Jerry Spinelli – Tooter Pepperday
Jerry Spinelli – Who Put That Hair in My Toothbrush?
Sue Stauffacher – Donuthead
William Steig – Doctor DeSoto
William Steig – The Toy Brother
R.L. Stine – It Came From Ohio! : My Life As a Writer
Todd Strasser – How I Spent My Last Night on Earth
Loreen Leedy and Pat Street – There’s a Frog in My Throat!
Janet Tashjian – The Gospel According to Larry
Jeanne Hartnagle Taylor – Greasepaint Matadors: The Unsung Heroes of Rodeo
Mike Thaler – The Teacher From the Black Lagoon
Kay Thompson – Eloise
Kay Thompson – Eloise’s Guide to Life
Stephanie S. Tolan – Surviving the Applewhites
Ross Venokur – Autobiography of Meatball Finkelstein
Judith Viorst – Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Cynthia Voigt – Bad Girls
Barbara Brooks Wallace – Miss Switch to the Rescue
Bill Wallace – No Dogs Allowed!
Bill Wallace – The Biggest Klutz in Fifth Grade
Lee Wardlaw – 101 Ways to Bug Your Parents
Sally Warner – Sweet and Sour Lily
Bill Watterson – The Days Are Just Packed: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
John Welter – I Want to Buy a Vowel: A Novel of Illegal Alienation
Valerie Wesley – Willimena and the Cookie Money
Ruth White – Buttermilk Hill
Ian Whybrow – Little Wolf’s Book of Badness
David Wisniewski – Tough Cookie
Susan Wojciechowski – Don’t Call Me Beanhead!
Patricia Wrede – Dealing With Dragons
Lisa Yee – Millicent Min, Girl Genius
Lisa Yee – Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time
Laurence Yep – The Cook’s Family
Margot Zemach – It Could Be Worse: A Yiddish Folk Tale
Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Tim Kennemore’s Circle of Doom.
I love Pope Eye Eye in _A View from Saturday_!
The Skiver’s Guide by Diana Wynne Jones
The Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diana Wynne Jones
The Giggler Treatment
Don’t call me Ishmael – Michael Gerard Baur
Click Clack Moo by Doreen Cronin
Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French
The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay
Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce
The Schwa Was Here by Neal Schusterman
Swim the Fly by Don Calame
ORDINARY JACK by Helen Cresswell
The Wayside Stories books
There’s a Monster at the End of This Book
Lynn Rae Perkins’ AS EASY AS FALLING OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH
Polly Horvath’s THE TROLLS
the Stupids series
Her Majesty, Grace Jones, by Jane Langton
THE PUP WHO CRIED WOLF
We Are In A Book by Mo Willems
Ivy and Bean by Annie Barrows (the whole series is hilarious)
Tuff Fluff and the Case of Duckie’s Missing Brain by Scott Nash
The Pigeon Wants a Puppy by Mo Willems
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis – serious subject, but funny in places
Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself by Judy Blume – serious subject, but funny
Whales on Stilts by MT Anderson
Framed, by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Fox In Socks, by Dr. Seuss, if you try to read it out loud.
Carter Finally Gets It, by Brent Crawford
Margaret Mahy’s The Librarian and the Robbers
Margaret Mahy’s Raging Robots and Unruly Uncles
Margaret Mahy’s Bubble Trouble
Lauren Child’s Clarice Bean books
Gordon Korman’s A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
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