Kids can use the table of contents to head straight to the sections that match their interests—Funny Food, Dino Laughs, Hysterical History, and plenty more.

Her debut novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian is a family comedy about two feuding daughters trying to free their father, who is writing a history of agricultural machinery, from the clutches of Valentina, a Ukrainian divorcee who specialises in “boil-in-the-bag cooking”. There’s a whole series of kid-friendly joke books from Highlights Magazine, home to one of my personal favorite comedy duos of all time, Goofus and Gallant. Long-suffering Korede and her younger sister Ayoola live in Lagos, Nigeria, and they have each other's backs. Another in this bracket is Nina Stibbe, whose superb 2019 story Reasons to be Cheerful, the sequel to Man at the Helm and Paradise Lodge, won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and the Comedy Women in Print Prize.

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Accompany Bridget Jones as she pours her thoughts and feelings about dating, friendship, work and family into her much-loved diary – and chortle throughout. Kidadl is independent and to make our service free to you the reader we are supported by advertising. Part of a four-book series, we can see teachers loving this pocket-size book even though it’s aimed at parents. Every day spent with you," his French teacher eventually tells him, "is like having a caesarean section. Perhaps the most mercilessly, eyebrow-cockingly dry of the great Jazz Age humourists, there weren't many things Dorothy Parker couldn't sharpen with her witheringly sardonic outlook.Even though the jokes are sometimes terrible, the best dad jokes come from the heart and you gotta respect the hustle. Legally, we're not actually allowed to put together a lust of funny books without at least one David Sedaris entry. She then realises it’s time to build her life back, but could it just be that the worst day of her life ends up being the best thing that ever happened to her?