May 15, 2025 12:11 pm
Published by priyahpi
Lily is the quintessential slightly older and far more sensible sister. She takes it upon herself to look after her uninhibited, prank-loving younger brother, Bud. While Lily wins the occasional battle with her cool-headed maturity, Bud is intent on winning the war with his brazen brand of mischief. Despite their obvious differences, Bud and Lily love each other deeply and have a strong sibling bond.
As might be expected from a comic strip rather than a graphic novel, the artwork is not meant to impress with its beauty; it does its job, which is to compliment the humor, especially the reaction shots in the last panel. Despite everyday words and situations, it comes across as smarter than most.
April 3, 2025 12:11 pm
Published by priyahpi
The humor in this book can be described as playful exaggeration or situational irony. It uses over-the-top descriptions of everyday family dynamics to present a humorous and lighthearted perspective.
Kiely knows she is famous! The paparazzi (her parents) follow her every move, documenting with cameras. It's exhausting being famous, but someone has to do it. She even gets to perform a big song at her grandfather's birthday. When she messes it up, she's worried she's lost her audience forever, but it turns out that no one is as loyal as her fans.
May 15, 2025 12:46 pm
Published by priyahpi
George Washington crossed the Delaware in the dead of night. Abraham Lincoln saved the Union. And President William Howard Taft, a man of great stature . . . well, he got stuck in a bathtub. Now how did he get unstuck?
June 4, 2025 12:20 pm
Published by priyahpi
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central, shares his remarkable story of growing up in South Africa with a black South African mother and a white European father at a time when it was against the law for a mixed-race child to exist. But he did exist--and from the beginning, the often-misbehaved Trevor used his keen smarts and humor to navigate a harsh life under a racist government.
In a country where racism barred blacks from social, educational, and economic opportunity, Trevor surmounted staggering obstacles and created a promising future for himself thanks to his mom’s unwavering love and indomitable will.
May 2, 2025 9:07 am
Published by priyahpi
You might think a book with no pictures seems boring and serious. Except . . . here’s how books work. Everything written on the page has to be said by the person reading it aloud. Even if the words say . . .
BLORK. Or BLUURF.
May 19, 2025 11:09 am
Published by priyahpi
This fun book teaches kids all the skills they need to find and perform the perfect joke, including:
- Safe searching to build a repertoire
- Choosing appropriate jokes for the audience and situation
- Using body-language, expression and timing
Armed with 101 hilarious practice jokes, your child will finally get the laughter and applause they deserve. Perfect for joke-lovers aged eight and up
May 14, 2025 10:01 am
Published by priyahpi
Celebrate love with endearing cartoons:
"Me without you is like...sky without blue...hair without do...cow without moo."
No matter the time or distance, it's always "me" and "you."
May 19, 2025 10:47 am
Published by priyahpi
The Dry Creek Middle School drinking fountain has sprung a leak, so principal Walter Russ dashes off a request to Flowing Waters Fountains, Etc.
...We need a new drinking fountain. Please send a catalog.
Designer Flo Waters responds:
"I'd be delighted...but please understand that all of my fountains are custom-made."
Soon the fountain project takes on a life of its own, one chronicled in letters, postcards, memos, transcripts, and official documents. The school board president is up in arms. So is Dee Eel, of the water-supply company. A scandal is brewing, and Mr. Sam N.'s fifth grade class is turning up a host of hilarious secrets buried deep beneath the fountain.
May 27, 2025 9:02 am
Published by priyahpi
This collection of ironic, comic and just plain ridiculous tombstones proves that it's possible to have a sense of humor about kicking the bucket. Just be careful you don't laugh yourself to death.
But if you've spent any time in a cemetery, you know a lot of those dearly departed have to be rolling over in their graves with laughter.
May 6, 2025 8:34 am
Published by priyahpi
Feet! Playful, sophisticated rhymes to inspire kids on how to have fun with one word.
Feet. They’re everywhere! We share them with bats, cats, rats, even gnats! But not all feet are the same. Some are sticky, and some are stinky. Some can hear, and some can taste. There’s a wondrous world of feet out there, especially animal feet. It gives one paws.
May 23, 2025 9:55 am
Published by priyahpi
This witty and captivating tale offers a delightful primer for laughing at the inevitable: If you're a dinosaur, all your friends are dead. If you're a pirate, all your friends have scurvy. If you're a tree, all your friends are end tables. Showcasing the downside of being everything from a clown to a cassette tape to a zombie, each page of this illustrated humor book is laugh-out-loud funny.
May 14, 2025 8:18 am
Published by priyahpi
Follow a cast of fictional funny experts into the Laugh Lab, a hilarious joke-building factory that teaches middle-grade readers how to create their own jokes, puns, silly one-liners, and more. Each chapter explores a different style of joke making, such as surprise, understatement, and exaggeration, and includes hundreds of hilarious examples.
By the end of the book, readers will have a set of tools in their joke belt to make their friends and family actually LOL.
May 1, 2025 8:49 pm
Published by priyahpi
Escargot is an irresistibly sweet and charming story about a snail who might be a picky eater but definitely wants to be your new best friend.
May 1, 2025 8:13 pm
Published by priyahpi
A hilarious book about cows negotiating with a farmer..
This book teaches children to use their minds and words to peaceably solve problems. It promotes communication, persuasion, problem and solution and our rights and those of others in a democratic society.
Farmer Brown has a problem. His cows like to type. All day long he hears Click, clack, moo. Click, clack, moo. Clickety, clack, moo. But the problems really begin when the cows start leaving Farmer Brown notes. First it was electric blankets...where will it end? And when the animals don't get what they want they go on strike, of course!
