Results tagged “Funny”

BOOK NAME: World's Dumbest Crooks and Other True Tales of Bloopers, Botches & Blunders
AUTHOR: Allan Zullo

This book is about some of the world's dumbest crooks, stupidest sports plays and other stuff like that.

Here's one example. This robber robbed a store and was so tired afterward that he thought he'd sit down for a while and he accidentally fell asleep! In the store he just robbed! The police caught him while he was taking his nap.

Then, there was this lady who had a vending machine at her store. She brought her cat to work everyday. She was going to sell her vending machine, but her cat jumped in the machine trying to get some food. The cat ended up on a five-hour trip to the store of the new owner!

There is another one was about a quarterback on a football team during a game. His team was lined up and he took the ball to the ref and said it was a practice ball. Then he yelled "Hike!" He kept the ball and ran all the way to the touchdown. And the referees said it counted!

This book was interesting because it had so many funny stories about how stupid and funny people could be. The book has chapters about crooks, sports, animals, movie stars and a few others.

I hope you enjoy this book if you end up getting it. It's really funny.

BOOK NAME: Explorabook: A Kids' Science Museum in a Book    
AUTHOR: John Cassidy

If you like science, you'll love this book. It doesn't tell a story, but it tells you a lot about different parts of science, like magnetism, optical illusions, reflections, light waves and bacteria. One of the pages of the book is actually a mirror on both sides. Another page is like a giant magnifying glass that you can see through, but it's made of thin plastic, not glass.

My favorite part is the optical illusions chapter, which shows all kinds of photos and drawings that fool your eye into thinking it's something else. On one page, there's what appears to be a perfect square on top of a bunch of circles, but when you look closer you realize all the sides are curved. In one photo, there are two girls standing next to two mirrors and one appears to be twice the size of the other, but really they're the same size because the mirrors are so different in size.

The book has a lot of funny pictures, including one of scientists smelling the arm pits of different people for an experiment. My brothers and I always laugh at that one. The book also comes with two packs of Agar, which you can mix with water to grow bacteria that you can see under a microscope. Bacteria likes to eat Agar.

This book makes science fun and funny. 

BOOK NAME: Superfudge
AUTHOR: Judy Blume

Superfudge is a fun book about a regular a boy named Peter and his brother named Fudge.  Fudge is going into kindergarten but he's a little out of control.  Peter absolutely wants to have nothing to do with Fudge but when he finds out that their mom is going to have another baby things only get worse.  On top of that, they are planning on moving for a year out of the city.  Peter tries to handle moving, two crazy siblings and staying cool all at the same time, but things tend to get a little hectic!  
     I LOVED reading Superfudge!  It was so much fun to read all the wacky things that Fudge ends up doing.  I am definitely planning on reading the sequels to it.  It was an easy read so I could take a break from all of the other much harder books I have for school.  The book reminds me of my own life in a way that I am in 6th grade and Peter is too.  My youngest brother Brady is SO the Fudge of the family.  He and Fudge are like wild childs.  We really do have a lot in common with them.
     I rate this a FIVE out of FIVE!  It is a great read for people who like humorous fictional types of books or Judy Blume's others in the series.  If you have a 'Wild Child' in the family, tell me about it. 

BOOK NAME: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw    
AUTHOR: Jeff Kinney

This is the third of four books that I know of about Greg Heffley, The Wimpy Kid. I've read all but one of the books and I like them all. Even though each book has "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" in the title, Greg makes it clear at the start of each one that the book is NOT a diary, but a journal. He explains that diaries are for writing down your feelings and others might think he's a sissy if they see him carrying around a diary. So his books are journals, which just tell about what happens in his life.

In the beginning of this book, Greg is always accidentally making his dad mad by doing things like watching TV rather than going outside to play and making noises at night that wake up his dad. In the book, Greg admits to having a crush on a classmate named Holly Hills so he tries to make her have a crush on him by doing goofy things, like telling jokes. It doesn't work. Greg then meets a girl named Trista and he ends up falling in love with her. He  plans to bring her to his friend Rowley's pool for a date, but he runs out of paper in his journal before he tells what happens.

I like the Wimpy Kid books because they are funny and they give me ideas for pranks and jokes to do with my friends, my dad, my mom and my brothers. If Greg were real, I'd like to play with him.

BOOK NAME: Sideways Stories from Wayside School
AUTHOR:  Louis Sachar

Seriously! This book is hilarious. It's all about the kids in Ms. Jewel's class at Wayside School. The reason it's called "wayside" school is because it was built sideways. The school was supposed to be 1 story tall with 30 classrooms. But the builder made a mistake and built the school 30 stories high with each story only containing a single classroom. There are a lot of crazy things that go on at Wayside.

Ms. Jewel's classroom is on the 30th floor of Wayside. At the beginning of the year, Ms. Jewel has a substitute teacher named Ms. Gorf. She is mean and can turn kids into apples. I know it sounds weird, but it's true. If you do anything wrong or give an incorrect answer, Ms. Gorf wiggles her ears, sticks out her tongue and then...poof!...you are turned into an apple.    Pretty soon, all the students had been turned into applies by Ms. Gorf.  All of the "apples" demand to be turned back into kids and they plan an "apple attack" on Ms. Gorf until she gives and turns them back into kids again!  After that, Ms. Gorf leaves the school and never comes back and Ms. Jewel comes back to teach her class.
 
This is only one of the stories from the book. There are 29 more chapters in the book that talk about each kid in Ms. Jewel's class. Once they get passed Ms. Gorf and her apple turning magic meanness, Ms. Jewel's class has a pretty crazy rest of the year.   There are 3 books about the Wayside School. I liked them because they were all funny and silly...and made me want to read the others.

BOOK NAME: Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Writing Thank You Notes
AUTHOR: Peggy Gifford and Valorie Fisher

This is a funny book. I enjoyed it so much that I read it in one sitting. It doesn't really say, but I think Moxy is about my age and in 6th or 7th grade. And the story in the book covers all the funny things that she does to get out of having to write thank you notes for the Christmas presents she has received. 

The problem is that she hates writing thank you notes! She could just refuse to write the notes, but she is promised a very cool reward if she gets the notes written in one day. Plus, her mom insists that she do them before she gets her reward. The reward is that her dad has promised to take her to a big, fancy, Hollywood movie premiere. She might even get to be on TV. But her mom has told she won't be able to go unless her thank you notes are done.

Moxy tries all sorts of short cuts to get her thank you notes done. Most of them don't work out very well. First, she thought she would write a single note and run it through the copy machine. That failed because they ended up making thousands of copies instead the 12 she needed. Next she tried to make them look fancy by using gold spray paint. She ended up painting a "T" on her friends clothes and "hank you" on the wall of her room. She got in pretty big trouble for that!
 
The book has some cool illustrations that really make the book fun to read. You'll have to read the book to see if she ever makes it to the movie premiere.  

BOOK NAME: Diary of a Wimpy Kid
AUTHOR: Jeff Kinney

If you want to read a funny book, check this book out of the library and start reading. It's about a wimpy kid who is going into middle school. His name is Greg Heffley. His older brother, whose name is Rodrick, is going into high school and Greg has all of Rodrick's old teachers. They think Greg is going to be just as much of a problem as his older brother.  

As you might guess, this book is Greg's diary and is arranged by date. It has neat writing, just like a kid's writing, and lots of cartoon drawings. It covers the school year and ends in the summer. Since Greg is just starting middle school, he is trying to fit in and be popular.  He and his friend Rowley try to hang with the cool kids and talk to them, but they just ignore him and walk away. One time, right after Christmas, Greg and Rowley are playing with a scooter and Rowley breaks his arm. The popular girls make a big deal over Rowley's broken arm and even though Greg was there he gets ignored like usual.

He also doesn't get much help from the teachers because they embarrass him because they think he's going be a troublemaker like his brother. But Greg is a good student and really good in class.

I think you should read this book because it has lot of funny parts that Greg and Rowley do together in their 6th grade year to fit in. It also shows that the best way to fit in to be yourself.

BOOK NAME: Toy Dance Party
AUTHOR: Emily Jenkins & illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky

This is a really fun book because you start thinking it is about a girl that plays with her toys.  But as you read it, you find out that it's really about her older toys being lonely because she only plays with the new toys.  So, the main characters of the book are really the toys and not the people.   

The main characters are Bossyboots the Stingray, Lumphy the Buffalo, Bonkers, Rocky Road, Millie and Brownie stuffed Mice, Spark the Shark. The "Silent People" are the Barbie dolls. These forgotten toys have lots of adventures together. There was one time when Bonkers the Mouse sucked into the vacuum cleaner and Spark the Shark helped rescue him.  He bit the outside of the bag and Bonkers bit the inside of the bag to make an escape hole that Bonkers used to get out. Everyone cheered for Spark and Bonkers. 

Another exciting part of the book is when Spark got bored and decided to go a tour of the house.  He found the Silent People and nibbled their arms and legs. He returned to tell everyone else how much fun he had.  When the girl the Barbie dolls with small bite marks she was very upset and thought there were real mice living in the box where she kept her Barbie dolls.  So, it was a funny trick that the old toys played on their owner.

I liked this story because it had funny parts, sad parts and really made you think that no matter how old you are, you can still have fun playing with your older toys.

BOOK NAME: Frindle
AUTHOR: Andrew Clements

This is a story about a boy that thought differently than everybody else.  He has good ideas in his head, but doesn't know where to put them.  His name is Nick Allen and this story is about how he changed the world. 

Nick always wondered why things were called the words they were.  Like, why is a dog called a dog and why is a house called a house.  So, Nick decided change the name of thing that everyone uses everyday.  He decided to rename the word "pen" to the word "frindle".  He needed help from his friends to make the word popular so everybody would use it.  He used his new word in school, at home and when he went to the store.   All of his friends did the same thing.  Soon, even the clerk at the store knew what frindle meant. When they came into the store and asked for a frindle, she would ask them "Do you want blue ink or black ink?" 

Everybody seemed to like his new word, except for his Language Arts teacher, Mrs. Granger.  She even punished everyone who used the word by keeping them after school.  But he stuck to his plan and even had some fun at Mrs. Granger's expense.

I really liked this book because it shows how even little kids can change things if they come up with an idea, stick with it and don't let people tell them what they can't do.

BOOK NAME: The Case of the Perfect Prank: A Jigsaw Jones Mystery
AUTHOR: James Preller



Jigsaw Jones is a kid detective. He is in second grade and he solves mysteries. He has older twin brothers and a friend named Joey who will eat anything, even ants and worms.

There are at least 23 books about Jigsaw and his mysteries. I've read two of them. This book is #23. In it, Jigsaw fools his friend Mila with a whoopee cushion, so she wants to get even. So Mila and her friend, Danika, ask Jigsaw to look for Danika's lost cat. They tell him that the cat was cat-napped, but really Danika doesn't even have a cat. That's the perfect prank!

Jigsaw gathers clues at the pet store, from Danika and from his older sister to solve the mystery. I won't tell you anymore because I don't want to give it all away. I like the book a lot because the prank is pretty hard to figure out, but Jigsaw is really smart and he finds out what happened. My favorite part of the book is the two last chapters when Jigsaw puts the pieces together. I give this book a four out of five because I've never read a book that's five out of five.

BOOK NAME: Miss Daisy is Crazy!

AUTHOR: Dan Gutman

Pictures by Jim Paillot

I read Miss Daisy is Crazy!, the first My Weird School book. Miss Daisy doesn't know anything. She doesn't even know how to spell READ. She spelled it this way -- R-E-E-D -- that's my name! A.J. and his friends have to teach Miss Daisy Math, Science and Social Studies.
 
A.J., Emily, Ryan, and Andrea want to rent the school and turn it into a video arcade. I have a Wii and a DS so I think that would be fun. Mr. Klutz, the principal will dress in a gorilla suit and they can have the school for a night IF they read one million pages! A.J. taught Miss Daisy about football. Miss Daisy got a real football player to come in and his name was Boomer Wiggins!  I like football too! A.J. said that he will teach Miss Daisy but it won't be easy. A.J. hugged Miss Daisy.

They read one million pages!! They got to rent the school and Mr. Klutz dressed in a gorilla suit. If you like this book, there are a LOT more. Don't miss Mr. Klutz is Nuts, book two in the My Weird series. I'll be back next time!