What makes you laugh? Humour is a funny thing - what makes some people laugh out loud might illicit annoyed groans from others. Take the following joke, for example:
Q. What's a pirate's favourite part of the library?
A. The Aaaarrrchives.
Yes. Well.
Try some of these books instead, and see if they tickle your funny bone.
Rachael McGarvey read Piranhas Don't Eat Bananas, written and illustrated by Aaron Blabey.
First of all I just have to say, even though I’m all grown up I still love children’s books and who wouldn’t love a book about a vegetarian piranha named Brian.
All he wants to do is introduce his fishy friends to the great pleasures of eating fruit, and Brian is very partial to a banana.
Although Brian’s friends are not too keen on trying a vegetarian diet, they’ll give it a go because Brian is their friend and that’s what friends do 😊
Aaron Blabey is the writer and illustrator of Piranhas Don't Eat Bananas (Curriculum 820.94 BLAB), and the library does hold a few of his other books. I would also recommend Pig the pug who is an obnoxious doggo has to learn a lesson about sharing.
Sharon Bryan read Does it Fart: The Definitive Field Guide to Animal Flatulence? by Nick Caruso and Dani Rabaiotti.
Ask anyone except my mother and they’ll tell you that farts an inherently funny. As well as being endlessly amusing, they are also a source of scientific curiosity. Nick Caruso (ecologist) and Dani Rabaiotti (zoologist) are a couple of scientiests who have, for some time, been answering the question #DoesItFart? on that great source of scientific communication, Twitter. And they have gallantly filled a gap in our literature by providing a book that looks at several different critters from across the animal kingdom, presenting what we know so far about the flatulence of our fellow species (which can be found at C591.56).
You’ll be unsurprised to learn that cats and dogs both fart (and how), but you might be surprised to know that birds don’t. Apparently they could, if they wanted to, but their digestive systems work too quickly to allow the build up of gas.
Most mammals do fart, in theory, but there are some that have never been observed to do so – like bats. Spiders have also never been observed to fart, but many insects release gas of some description for various reasons - like a particular critter whose “farts” can incapacitate its prey. Talk about “silent, but violent”.
Brenda Carter read Once upon an alphabet by Oliver Jeffers.
Q. What's a pirate's favourite part of the library?
A. The Aaaarrrchives.
Yes. Well.
Try some of these books instead, and see if they tickle your funny bone.
Rachael McGarvey read Piranhas Don't Eat Bananas, written and illustrated by Aaron Blabey.
First of all I just have to say, even though I’m all grown up I still love children’s books and who wouldn’t love a book about a vegetarian piranha named Brian.All he wants to do is introduce his fishy friends to the great pleasures of eating fruit, and Brian is very partial to a banana.
Although Brian’s friends are not too keen on trying a vegetarian diet, they’ll give it a go because Brian is their friend and that’s what friends do 😊
Aaron Blabey is the writer and illustrator of Piranhas Don't Eat Bananas (Curriculum 820.94 BLAB), and the library does hold a few of his other books. I would also recommend Pig the pug who is an obnoxious doggo has to learn a lesson about sharing.
Sharon Bryan read Does it Fart: The Definitive Field Guide to Animal Flatulence? by Nick Caruso and Dani Rabaiotti.
You’ll be unsurprised to learn that cats and dogs both fart (and how), but you might be surprised to know that birds don’t. Apparently they could, if they wanted to, but their digestive systems work too quickly to allow the build up of gas.
Most mammals do fart, in theory, but there are some that have never been observed to do so – like bats. Spiders have also never been observed to fart, but many insects release gas of some description for various reasons - like a particular critter whose “farts” can incapacitate its prey. Talk about “silent, but violent”.
Brenda Carter read Once upon an alphabet by Oliver Jeffers.
The letters
of our alphabet work tirelessly to make words that in turn make stories, but
what if there was a story FOR each of the letters instead?
Once
upon an alphabet by Oliver
Jeffers is not your run of the mill alphabet book for children, but
then, most picture books aren’t ‘just for children’. This one is hilarious.
Jeffers has
written 26 short scenarios for each of the letters. The characters and stories
are sometimes connected, which makes for a surprising and humorous twist. There’s the regular cucumber who “watched a
programme about Sea cucumbers and thought it would be a better life for him”
(unfortunately he couldn’t Swim). Or the Terrified Typist whose stories had a
Terrible habit of coming True…and met a Tragic end. Then there’s Cup who lived
in a Cupboard, who forgot that the Counter was a long way down…and made of
Concrete.
Yes, some
of the humour is a little black, but it certainly makes me laugh out loud. This
is an enjoyable book for school-aged children and adults, and a quick read for
your weekly Challenge book!
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