These Books Are Written to Be Funny Or Amusing
Humorous Fiction
These books are written to be funny or amusing.
Picture Books
Barrett, Judy. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow where it rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers--until the weather takes a turn for the worse.
Christelow, Eileen. Letters from a Desperate Dog. Feeling misunderstood and unappreciated by her owner, Emma the dog asks for advice from the local canine advice columnist.
Cronin, Doreen. Diary of a Worm. A young worm discovers, day by day, that there are some very good and some not so good things about being a worm in this great big world.
Peet, Bill. Big Bad Bruce.Bruce, a bear bully, never picks on anyone his own size until he is diminished in more ways than one by a small but very independent witch.
Rylant, Cynthia. The Relatives Came. The relatives come to visit from Virginia and everyone has a wonderful time.
Steig, William. C D B! Letters and numbers are used to create the sounds of words and simple sentences 4 u 2 figure out with the aid of illustrations.
Willems, Mo. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! A pigeon that longs to drive a bus sees a chance to make its dream come true when the bus driver takes a short break.
Younger Elementary Chapter Books
Arnold, Ted. Hi! Fly Guy.When Buzz captures a fly to enter in The Amazing Pet Show, his parents and the judges tell him that a fly cannot be a pet, but Fly Guy proves them wrong.
Byars, Betsy. Me, Tarzan. When Dorothy gets the part of Tarzan in the class play, her tremendous yell attracts the attention of increasingly larger and wilder animals.
Gutman, Dan. Miss Daisy is Crazy. Miss Daisy's unusual teaching methods surprise her second grade students, especially reluctant learner A.J.
Lowry, Lois. Gooney Bird Greene. A most unusual new student who loves to be the center of attention entertains her teacher and fellow second graders by telling absolutely true stories about herself, including how she got her name.
Low, Alice. The Witch Who Was Afraid of Witches. A little witch finds a way to out-witch her two bossy sisters.
McDonald, Megan. Judy Moody. Third grader Judy Moody is in a first day of school bad mood until she gets an assignment to create a collage all about herself and begins creating her masterpiece, the Me collage.
Miller, Sara. Three Stories You Can Read to Your Dog. Stories addressed to dogs and written from a dog's point of view, featuring such topics as a burglar, bones, and running free.
Parrish, Peggy. Amelia Bedelia.A literal-minded housekeeper causes a ruckus in the household when she attempts to make sense of some instructions.
Thaler, Mike. Teachers from the Black Lagoon. A collection of stories of the very unusual teachers created by rumors!
Winkler, Henry. Holy Enchilada!Efforts to impress a visiting student from Japan cause Hank to hide his dyslexia while the gang makes enchiladas for a Multi-Cultural Day lunch, and Hank is afraid he was very wrong about the amount of chili powder called for in the recipe.
Older Elementary Chapter Books
Blume, Judy. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. Peter finds his demanding two-year-old brother an ever-increasing problem.
Cleary, Beverly. Ramona the Pest. Ramona meets lots of interesting people in kindergarten class, like Davy whom she keeps trying to kiss and Susan whose springy curls seem to ask to be pulled.
Clements, Andrew. Frindle. When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.
Dahl, Roald. The BFG. Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
Doyle, Roddy. Giggler Treatment. A talking dog, the Mack children, and the small elf-like Gigglers themselves must try to stop the prank that the Gigglers have mistakenly set in motion to punish Mr. Mack for being mean to his children.
Klise, Kate. Regarding the Fountain. When the principal asks a fifth-grader to write a letter regarding the purchase of a new drinking fountain for their school, he finds that all sorts of chaos results.
Miller, Wiley. The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Basil.Twelve-year-old Basil meets an eccentric professor with a flying boat and sets off on a journey into the clouds, where they find a floating city filled with otherworldly inventions and ideas.
McCloskey, Robert. Homer Price. Six episodes in the life of Homer Price including one in which he and his pet skunk capture four bandits and another about a donut machine on the rampage.
Rockwell, Thomas. How to Eat Fried Worms. Two boys set out to prove that worms can make a delicious meal.
Sachar, Louis. Sideways Stories from Wayside School. Humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story.
[Book Descriptions from Titlewave.com.]