Funny

A crocodile with an attitude, whose greatest joy is overeating, is taken from Egypt to Paris as a souvenir for Napoleon. Marcellino’s paintings fill each page with colorful images. Read it aloud!

Funny and often touching, Dakos’s poems about life at school will get your class through virtually any situation with good humor.

In this rollicking volume of verse, more than 100 poems are packed with Prelutsky’s zany humor.

Prelutsky is a stretcher of language, a champion of wit, and an expander of children’s imaginations. James Stevenson’s hilarious black-and-white drawings only add to the fun.

Kaline Klattermaster LOVES his mom. ADORES his mom. But his mom can be, well, a bit forgetful sometimes. A bit lax. A bit…CRAZY. For instance, she’s a bit crazy when she leaves him in the tub for THREE HOURS. Or gives him a chicken leg for breakfast…or forgets that he needs to go to school. AND he’s not completely sure his mother understands how time works.
She’s been even a bit MORE CRAZY since his dad left. So it’s a very good thing that the folks in Kaline’s tree house are not so crazy. They understand him. They don’t mind that he sometimes HAS to play his pretend bugle, and, of course, they are FULL of good advice on how to handle bullies. His mom hints that the tree house is imaginary. Kaline is UNCONVINCED.

Another character who doesn’t seem to fit in is Max. The son of legendary heroes Captain Lightning and Madam Thunderbolt, he is expected to become a superhero. But unlike his parents, Max doesn’t quickly learn to fly. Prodding and teasing do not speed up the process. It’s only when flying is required to save a helpless creature that Max takes to the air. This brightly colored book offers hope to other late bloomers.

Here’s an absurd tale that causes children to groan and laugh simultaneously. On almost every page it repeats, “We thought she’d throw up then and there.” See if your students can remember what she ate first, second, and so on.

This nonsensical romp through a gallery of imaginary creatures introduces beginning readers to a variety of rhyming letter combinations. Meet the Yink, who likes to wink and drink pink ink. Or the Yop, who hops from finger top to finger top. Then there is morose Ned who doesn’t like his little bed. The short anecdotal poems have just the right combination of humor and the fantastic to enrapture readers.

Gritch, the witch, wants piggies to put into her pie, but the pigs outsmart her at every turn. When she meets up with a wolf, also the victim of the pigs’ cleverness, the two hungry creatures go off arm in arm to an imagined conclusion that is fitting and funny.