Books That Elicit Giggles from Kids (and Adults too)
By Shirley Gilbert
Suggestions for parents, grandparents and other people who love to read to young people and want to find an ideal holiday present:
- Hop On Pop by Dr. Seuss
- Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky Peaky Spying by Barbara Park
- Good Work Amelia Badelia by Peggy Parish
- Something Under the Bed is Drooling, a Calvin and Hobbes collection
- Skinnybones by Barbara Park
- Aliens in Underpants Save the World by Clair Freedman and Ben Cort
- New Kid on the Block (poetry) by Jack Prelutsky
- Superfudge by Judy Blume
- Frindle by Andrew Clements
- Oh, The Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss
- Dooby Dooby Moo by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin
- The Adventures of Snail at School by John Stadler
- It’s Christmas David by David Shannon
- Trout, Trout, Trout! by April Pulley Sayre
- Bud NOT Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Let’s Eat in the Funny Zone by Gary Chimielewski
- Ben and Me by Robert Lawson
- Dork Diaries 4, Tales from a Not-so-Graceful Ice Princess by Rachel Renee Russell
- The Dunderheads by Paul Fleischman
- Weird Parents by Audrey Wood
- A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- You Are My Sunshine by Hollie Hobby
- The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
- The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
- Bad Hair Day by Susan Hood
- The Mouse’s Christmas by Kit Schorsch
- Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table, a Collection of Essays from The New York Times
- The Honeybee and the Robber by Eric Carle
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
- Maximum Ride — Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson
- No Place for Magic by E.D. Baker
- The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by John Scieszka