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Books > Children's & Educational > Leisure interests, hobbies & sport > Humour & jokes
Have a laugh with this fantastically hilarious collection of
football jokes! With puns, one liners, visual gags and plays on
words, this book will have your friends, family and even pets
laughing! Hilarious illustrations add to the fun. Contains over 100
good, clean jokes for all the family to enjoy.
Bursting with fascinating facts for impressing friends, parents,
grandparents and teachers - perfect for curious children
everywhere! Wow your friends! Amaze your teachers! Astonish your
family! Find over a HUNDRED mind-boggling facts and sensational
stats in this fun-packed and hilarious book, perfect for 8+
readers. Whether you love animals or adventure, science or sport,
inspiring people or incredible places, you'll find ALL the weird
and wonderful facts you'll ever need in the pages of this book. You
won't want to put it down! The perfect beginner's book for STEAM
related topics. Look out for more amazing fact books: Amazing Facts
Every 6 Year Old Need to Know Amazing Facts Every 7 Year Old Needs
to Know Amazing Facts Every 9 Year Old Needs to Know Amazing Facts
Every 10 Year Old Needs to Know
The perfect gift for a current band members and band directors, and
a hilarious look back for band alumni, Band Nerds: Poetry is a
delightfully geeky instant classic to share with all the music
lovers in your life! Music's among us, wherever you look, there's
band nerds around us even reading this book. For anyone who's been
in band, seen a band, or can spell the word "band," this one is for
you! Band Nerds: Poetry From The 13th Chair Trombone Player is a
book of hilariously inspiring poems and illustrations all about-you
guessed it-BAND! Come join the wild antics of those lovable band
nerds like the egotistical trumpet player, bad-boy percussionists,
flirty-yet-stuck-up flute, overzealous oboe, and many more. Explore
the humorous and zany world of band geeks, music dweebs, and
well...you get the picture. But be careful-you might just fall in
love with them!
Now an animated series with Paramount+ and Nickelodeon! Like a
sudden soccer ball to the gut, this thrilling installment in the
enormously popular Big Nate series will take your breath away! When
you're a sixth-grade dynamo like Nate Wright, life comes at you
fast. Whether it's a soccer ball to the head or another teacher
tirade, surprises lurk around every corner. In this Big Nate
collection, Nate's friends issue the ultimate insult: they point
out all the ways he resembles his arch-nemesis, Gina. Nate also
scores a new job as an intern at Klassic Komix, and his master plan
to carpet-bomb the school with Valentine's Day cards goes seriously
sideways. And when Nate gets dragged into a cringe-worthy party for
the dreaded Mrs. Godfrey, what could possibly go wrong? With
laughs, adventures, and jokes galore, In Your Face! will make your
head spin.
'Never mind the kids, I've had an education from reading this book!
... Recommended for any budding scientists, eco-warriors or fans of
weird facts' Rachel Riley, TV presenter and mathematician 'The best
way to get out of being bored is discovering something new. The
great thing about this book is it whizzes you off to a world of
facts you had never heard of. Result: not being bored. Result!'
Michael Rosen, Children's poet and author 'Every page bursting with
fantastic facts you never thought you needed to know.
Indispensable, planet-saving, fact-tastic fun for all the family!'
Dallas Campbell, BBC Science presenter In this new book, TV science
expert Dr Emily Grossman answers incredible and important questions
about our natural world. You'll find out silly things like why some
animals do square-shaped poos and which direction a dog is likely
to face while weeing, but you'll also learn what climate change and
wildlife loss are actually doing to our planet and what YOU can do
to help. Covering a diverse range of key science topics, from human
biology and animals and plants to the weather and space, Dr Emily
shows readers why Earth is so weird and wonderfully great. Did you
know there's a planet in our solar system where it actually rains
diamonds? Imagine that! If you lived there, you'd always be picking
them out of your hair, your pockets and probably your pants! Dr
Emily also tackles Earth's BIGGEST problem: climate change. Through
clear, sensitive explanations, you'll find out what is actually
happening to our Earth and what this means for both humans and
wildlife - and what we can all do to help! Written by TV science
expert, STEM ambassador and advocate for women in science Dr Emily
Grossman, this book will make your eyebrows rise, your jaw drop and
your world WHIZZ! It will also give you hope about our future and
how we can ALL make a difference. 'I love this book! It's funny,
accessible and quirky and has exactly the right balance of
questions and information to light the flame of scientific inquiry
in young minds. A must-read for all budding young scientists' Lucy
Hawking, Children's science author 'Since we got this book, all my
kids want to talk about is diamond rain, tuna fish eyeballs and how
to save the planet ... thank goodness Emily has written down the
answers to their insatiably curious questions in a single handy and
hilarious volume' Helen Arney, Science presenter, comedian and
author Emily Grossman's first book Brain-fizzing Facts: Awesome
Science Questions Answered was shortlisted for the Teach Primary
Book Awards 2020.
Perfect for fans of Big Nate, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Timmy Failure,
and the previous Stick Dog books, Tom Watson's hilarious Stick Dog
Slurps Spaghetti will be gobbled up even by reluctant readers. It's
slippery. It's slurpable. It's spaghetti! Stick Dog and his gang of
hungry hounds want to play tug-of-war. Their search for rope leads
to something even better-spaghetti! Once they get a taste, they
must get some more. It will be their most difficult mission
ever-and will demand all of Stick Dog's problem-solving skills.
They'll need to scale the tallest mountain in the suburbs and sneak
into a restaurant filled with people. Dangerous humans-a
strange-talking girl, a huge chef, and a penguin-man-lurk around
every corner. But there's more than danger in the air. Stick Dog
has caught the scent of something even more scrumptious than
spaghetti. And he'll risk everything to find out what it is. Other
favorites in the series include Stick Dog Wants a Hot Dog, Stick
Dog Chases a Pizza, and many more!
Written by award-winning author Chae Strathie and developed in
consultation with experts from the British Museum, this fascinating
book reveals what life was really like for kids in ancient Rome,
from washing clothes in wee to snacking on dormice . . . and even
fighting in gladiatorial combat! Packed with facts and fantastic
illustrations, this funny and accessible introduction to ancient
Rome is a must-read for kids with a passion for horrible history.
This is another very special Bellissima book written for kids, this
time for who are either in the hospital, going to the hospital or
who are just plain hospital kids. The book is intended to be real,
but at the same time be funny and entertaining and allow a hospital
kid to express what he or she is feeling about everything and to
make the best of their hospital stay. Penelope Dyan has an affinity
for kids and feels what their hearts are saying. This is her way to
help just a little bit. A former teacher of grades k-3 and an
attorney, Dyan's book 'Surfer Girl' was the winner of best teen
book at both the 2008 New York Book Festival and the 2008 Hollywood
Book Festival. Penelope Dyan's 'Surfer Girl' is also recognized by
the Girls Voices In Literature Database, Miami University, Florida
and other numerous awards. Dyan is also a mother and grandmother
and brings with her this added insight and expertise. So read and
laugh and cry. Do it all with this funny little book of 'Poetry For
Kids.' The profits from this book (both hardcover and soft cover)
will be going to a very special hospital kid named Kourtney. If you
would like to know more about Kourtney read Diagnosing Kourtney by
Laura Najjar.
Which famous writer goes best with a hot dog? Roll Dahl of course!
Laugh yourself silly with Roald Dahl's Marvellous Joke Book, filled
with over 400 hilarious jokes, limericks and riddles, illustrated
by Quentin Blake. Based on Roald Dahl's most famous characters you
will be chortling away with Matilda, Charlie, George, The BFG,
James and many more! Roald Dahl was full of fun and mischief, and
LOVED all kinds of jokes- the sillier the better, like
chocolate-covered chickens to grizzly, grouchy grandmas. This
side-splitting book includes his own 'knock-knock' jokes, keeping
all practising jokesters amused for hours!
Edward Lear's delightful nonsense verse is as fresh and fun now as
it has always been. This brilliant collection from 1900 is
illustrated by the peerless L. Leslie Brooke. It contains: 'The
Jumblies', 'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat', 'The Broom, the Shovel, the
Poker and the Tongs', 'The Duck and the Kangaroo', 'The
Cummerbund', 'The Dong with a Luminous Nose', 'The New Vestments',
'Calico Pie', 'The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo' and
'Incidents in the Life of my Uncle Arly'. This color version has
been carefully typeset to keep as close to the original as
possible, faithfully reproducing the detailed black-and-white
drawings and the six high-quality full-page color plates.
Discover all the foul facts about the history of the mythological
land with history's most horrible headlines: Greek edition. The
master of making history fun, Terry Deary, turns his attention to
the Groovy Greeks. From why girls ran about naked pretending to be
bears to why doctors tasted their patients' earwax. It's all in
Horrible Histories: Groovy Greeks: fully illustrated throughout and
packed with hair-raising stories - with all the horribly hilarious
bits included with a fresh take on the classic Horrible Histories
style, perfect for fans old and new the perfect series for anyone
looking for a fun and informative read Horrible Histories has been
entertaining children and families for generations with books, TV,
stage show, magazines, games and 2019's brilliantly funny Horrible
Histories: the Movie - Rotten Romans. Get your history right here
and collect the whole horrible lot. Read all about it!
Baloney and friends are reaching for the stars-but not without some
funny obstacles along the way! Whether they're creating a
masterpiece, destroying a birthday cake, or debating online
comments about themselves, these lovable characters know how to
dream big! This new collection of mini-tales and three mini-comics
will have you cheering and rooting for Baloney the pig, Bizz the
bumblebee, Peanut the horse, and everyone's favourite grumpy
rabbit, Krabbit! And at the end, readers will learn how to make
their own minibook by following clear step-by-step instructions.
"Greg Pizzoli does it again! These delightfully funny friends will
inspire young readers to write and draw their own stories." -Dav
Pilkey, creator of the Dog Man and Captain Underpants series Don't
miss the other books in the series: Baloney & Friends Baloney
& Friends: Going Up!
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