{"id":217937,"date":"2019-03-20T09:27:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T09:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wonderbly.com\/top-five-funniest-kids-books\/"},"modified":"2019-03-20T09:27:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T09:27:05","slug":"top-five-funniest-kids-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wonderbly.com\/en-gb\/news\/top-five-funniest-kids-books\/","title":{"rendered":"My Top Five Funniest Kids\u2019 Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like funny books. Who doesn\u2019t? Also, I hope that I write funny books, or at least, books with funny bits in them. When I used to read to my son Elias (he\u2019s nearly thirteen now, so it was a while ago) I loved to make him laugh, with the books I read him. Who doesn\u2019t love to hear kids laugh? It\u2019s the best sound in the world.<\/p>\n

So here are my top five funniest kids\u2019 books list. They are a hoot, I promise.<\/p>\n

Not Now, Bernard \u2013 David McKee<\/h2>\n

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A small boy\u2019s parents are too busy doing grown-up-y things to pay any attention to Bernard, their son. Even when he tells them, in a very reasonable and measured fashion, that there\u2019s a monster in the garden who\u2019s intent on eating him up. And then, somewhat surprisingly, given that this is a young children\u2019s picture book, the monster devours Bernard. \u201cEvery bit\u201d. I mean, put like that, I\u2019m willing to admit that it doesn\u2019t sound all that funny. But it just is. At least, I think so, and so do hundreds of thousands of other parents. Maybe it just makes us all feel a touch less guilty about not being 100% receptive to our children\u2019s every need. Still, at least they\u2019re not getting eaten up by monsters, \u201cevery bit\u201d.<\/p>\n

Oi Frog! \u2013 Kes Gray, Jim Field<\/h2>\n

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Okay, so here we\u2019ve basically got a stoutly opinionated cat, which spends the entire book explaining \u2013 catsplaining \u2013 to a bewildered frog exactly what it believes various creatures ought to sit on. The choice of what these beasts should settle themselves upon is determined entirely by rhyme (lions sit on irons, fleas sit on peas, etc.). It goes on and on, and gets funnier and funnier, until the twist at the end, which is just really, really funny, deliciously daft, and it never gets old.<\/p>\n

The Twits \u2013 Roald Dahl<\/h2>\n

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This is one of the last books I remember reading to Elias. He must have been about six, and he was kind of past being read to, because he was by then reading short chapter books by himself. But I was on a (brief and unsuccessful) mission to rekindle the whole reading-together-before-bed thing. I do remember him laughing, a bit, as I read it. I also remember him looking at me slightly oddly, because as I read to him I was laughing, and laughing, and laughing, with tears and everything. I was definitely laughing more than he was. But my word, this book is funny. The Twits is rude, revolting, repulsive, nasty, full of characters with zero redeeming features, and horribly, hideously hilarious.<\/p>\n

The Book With No Pictures \u2013 B. J. Novak<\/h2>\n