Just for the fun of it, I’m declaring March to be Comedy Month. Well, right here on my website, anyway. So here’s a list of books I found to be amusing. (Some of them have made it on other lists.)
Children’s Comedy
The Skippy-Jon Jones series, by Judy Schachner
Pigeon series, by Mo Willems
Liza Lou and the Yeller Belly Swamp Monster, by Mercer Mayer (if you can read it with an accent, it’s a great touch)
Juvenile Comedy
The Great Brain series, by John D. Fitzgerald (based on true stories, no less…)
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, by Barbara Robinson
Pippi Longstocking series, by Astrid Lindgren
Ramona series & Henry Huggins series, by Beverly Cleary
The Case of the Mistaken Identity, by Mac Barnett
The True Meaning of Smekday, by Adam Rex (so, so much better than the movie)
Teen Comedy (the line between Juvenile & Teen can be iffy, so feel free to pull from both categories)
Goldfish, by Nat Luursema
Chickens in the Headlights, by Matthew Buckley (also based on true stories)
Homer Price series, by Robert McCloskey
Howl’s Moving Castle series, by Diana Wynn Jones
The Girl Who Invented Romance, and Hit the Road, by Caroline B. Cooney
Romeo and Juliet–Together (and Alive!) at Last, by Avi
Janette Rallison
Enthusiasm, by Polly Shulman
Adult Comedy
The List, by Melanie Jacobson
Phule’s Company series, by Robert Asprin (content warning: adult content)
A Night of Blacker Darkness, by Dan Wells
The Donkey’s Gift, by Thomas M. Coffey
And Then You’re Dead: What Really Happens If You Get Swallowed by a Whale, Are Shot from a Cannon, or Go Barreling Over Niagara, by Cody Cassidy
Enchanted, Inc series, by Shanna Swendson
What books have made you laugh hard enough to cry?
Marty C. Lee
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