CF: Humour

Be warned – to commiserate 25 years of misfortune and gloom unleashed upon generations of children, Lemony Snicket’s publishers have taken the untold risk of creating brand new collectors’ editions of A Series of Unfortunate Events, illustrated by the obscenely talented Emily Gravett. The temptation...

Tia must show visitors to Gull Haven Island how to respect the environment and protect the animals who live there in this charming tale from award-winning author Gill Lewis. At the start of the summer, Tia is excited to see all the visitors arriving...

Another hilarious and moving novel from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing children's author in the country. A story of prejudice and acceptance, funny lists and silly words, this new book has all the hallmarks of David's previous bestsellers. Our hero Ben...

Welcome to Nikki Maxwell's aDORKable world abd the mega-selling Dork Diaries series – now with over 50 million copies in print worldwide! When Nikki discovers that her arch-nemesis, MacKenzie, has started writing a gossip column for the school newspaper, she's worried that she will share info...

What did the rancor say when it ate the Wookiee? Mmm … chewy! What did Leia do when you she kept dropping the chopsticks? She used the forks! Why can’t you get rid of BB-8? Because he’s always a-round! The updated Star Wars Joke...

Separated from his owner a little girl in need of life-saving surgery Darcy is a sad rag-doll cat. But the residents at Tabby Towers hope to cheer him up by making him the star in a magic show. All's well until the disappearing trick...

"You Can't Catch Me" and "You Can't Put Mustard in the Custard" were first published twenty-five years ago and were groundbreaking in that they were full-colour illustrated new poems for children. "You Can't Catch Me" won the Signal Poetry Award in 1982. Both books...

What is The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events) by Lemony Snicket about? Dear reader, There is nothing to be found in Lemony Snicket’s ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ but misery and despair. You still have time to choose another international best-selling series to read....

The nation’s favourite blended beastly family is BACK for the fifth and FINAL book of the series from multiple award-winning author Jack Meggitt-Phillips 'Reads like a modern classic. Sharp, funny, original – I thought this was brilliant', Sam Copeland, bestselling author of Charlie Changes into...

Dennis was different. Why was he different, you ask? Well, a small clue might be in the title of this book. Charming, surprising and hilarious - The Boy in the Dress is everything you would expect from the co-creator of Little Britain. David Walliams’s...

When the Prime Minister begins making Ted''s great ideas a reality, he suddenly has a lot of responsibility on his shoulders … A hilarious comedy caper from Waterstones Children''s Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce.Ted thinks there’s something fishy going on. Ever since his birthday when he...

Ten favourite Horrid Henry stories, all about school. He gives the class nits, encounters a demon dinner lady, does his best to sabotage the school sports day, finds ingenious ways to get round doing his homework and reading books, and is publicly mortified by...

Discover the complete Horrible Histories Savage collection—eight brilliantly entertaining books that bring history to life with gruesome facts, hilarious illustrations, and unforgettable stories. From the Awful Egyptians to the Woeful Second World War, this set covers the most savage moments in history that textbooks...

The 65-Storey Treehouse is the fifth book in Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton's wacky treehouse adventures, where the laugh-out-loud story is told through a combination of text and fantastic comic book-style illustrations. 'The kind of book I would have loved as a kid' – Tom...

Witty mid-length novels by an author we adore. Some of Phil Earle’s books make us cry. (Think Being Billy or Saving Daisy.) But on Storey Street, things are a lot more light-hearted. On this street, everybody has – you guessed it! – a story. And who better...

You've fed them bread, now they want you dead in this hilariously comic caper that'll have kids going quackers with laughter, written by the marvellous Tommy Donbavand (of TV's Scream Street fame). Six months from now ducks take over the world - and it's...

Open with your best gag. Finish with your second best.Make sure your face matches the material.Sell your routine . . . Matt Millz LOVES stand up comedy. He's studied the best. He's memorized all the advice. He spends hours writing new gags and thinking up...

A beautifully written, incredibly original and wickedly funny novel for readers of 10 and older – BLOOM is for everyone who has ever felt like they didn’t fit in, and for anyone who has ever wanted a little more colour and wildness in their...

Luke and his brother have swapped bodies by accident. Zack's got Luke's weird feet while Luke has Zack's SUPERPOWERS! Now he needs another world-threatening adventure to try them out. Could a family mini-break at Great Minds Leisure Park be his chance? Probably, because that's...

When Pug and Lady Miranda have a scary run-in with a lion one night (it might be hiding under the bed), Lady M decides Pug needs to face his fears and go on safari. Pug goes a bit wobbly when he finds out he'll...