Barrington Area Library

Kids' Catalog | Funny

Joke and riddle books can be found under the call numbers J793.7–J793.735.

Going into grade 3 | Going into grades 4–5 | Going into grades 6–8

Going into grade 3

Beginning Readers | Fiction

Beginning Readers

Arnold, Tedd.  Fly Guy series.
Cazet, Denys.  Grandpa Spanielson's Chicken Pox Stories.
Cazet, Denys.  Minnie and Moo series.
Cerf, Bennett.  Book of Laughs.
Christian, Mary Blount.  Go West, Swamp Monsters!
Cowley, Joy.  Agapanthus Hum and Major Bark.
Danziger, Paula.  A Is for Amber series.
deCesare, Angelo.  Flip’s Fantastic Journal.
Duffey, Betsy.  Camp Knock Knock.
Elliott, David.  The Cool Crazy Crickets.
Hall, Katy.  Bunny Riddles.
Hoff, Syd.  Sammy the Seal.
Horton, Joan.  I Brought My Rat for Show-and-Tell, and Other Funny School Poems.
Jinkins, Jim.  Pinky Dinky Doo series.
Kettner, Christine.  Oliver Cat on Planet B.
Lobel, Arnold.  Frog and Toad Are Friends.
McPhail, David.  The Day the Dog Said, "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!"
Medearis, Angela Shelf.  We Eat Dinner in the Bathtub.
Parish, Peggy, and Herman Parish.  Amelia Bedelia series.
Paul, Ann Whitford.  Silly Sadie, Silly Samuel.
Sathre, Vivian.  Slender Ella and Her Fairy Hogfather.
School Stories Your Dog Didn't Eat.
Silly Stories to Tickle Your Funny Bone.
Spirn, Michele.  The Know-Nothings.
Steinberg, David.  Club Pet, and Other Funny Poems.
Thiesing, Lisa.  The Scarecrow's New Clothes: A Silly Thriller with Peggy the Pig.
Thiesing, Lisa.  The Viper.
Wheeler, Lisa.  New Pig in Town.
Willems, Mo.  Elephant and Piggie series.

Fiction

Ahlberg, Allan.  The Cat Who Got Carried Away. 
Auch, Mary Jane.  I Was a Third Grade Bodyguard.  
Barrows, Annie.  Ivy + Bean.
Brisson, Pat.  Little Sister, Big Sister.
Brown, Jeff.  Flat Stanley.
Cleary, Beverly.  Ramona Quimby series.
Conford, Ellen.  Annabel the Actress series.
Conford, Ellen.  Jenny Archer series.
Cowell, Cressida.  How to Train Your Dragon.
Cox, Judy.  Weird Stories from the Lonesome Café.  
Danziger, Paula.  Amber Brown series.
Duffey, Betsy.  Cody Unplugged.
Evans, Douglas.  The Elevator Family.
French, Jackie.  Funny Families series.
Friedman, Laurie B.  Mallory on the Move.
Graves, Bonnie B.  Taking Care of Trouble.
Greenburg, Dan.  Zack Files series.
Greene, Stephanie.  Owen Foote, Money Man. 
Kelly, Katy.  Lucy Rose: Busy Like You Can't Believe.
Kline, Suzy.  Horrible Harry series.
Korman, Gordon.  Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire.
Krensky, Stephen.  Louise Goes Wild.
Lowry, Lois.  Gooney Bird Greene.
McCombie, Karen.  How to be Good(ish).
McDonald, Megan.  Stink and the World's Worst Super-Stinky Sneakers.
Nolan, Lucy A.  Down Girl and Sit series.
Orr, Wendy.  Mokie & Bik.
Pennypacker, Sara.  Clementine.
Pilkey, Dav.  Captain Underpants series.
Pilkey, Dav.  Ricky Ricotta series.
Pinkwater, Daniel Manus.  The Werewolf Club series.
Rockwell, Thomas.  How to Eat Fried Worms.
Sachar, Louis.  Marvin Redpost series.
Walker, Kate.  I Hate Books!
Willner-Pardo, Gina.  Spider Storch series.

Going into grades 4–5  

Adler, David A.  The Many Troubles of Andy Russell.
Ardagh, Philip.  A House Called Awful End: Book One of the Eddie Dickens Trilogy.
Benton, Jim.  Dear Dumb Diary series.
Benton, Jim.  Lunch Walks among Us.
Cleary, Beverly.  Henry Huggins series.
Clements, Andrew.  No Talking.
Cooney, Doug.  The Beloved Dearly.
Dahl, Roald.  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
David, Lawrence.  Horace Splattly: The Cupcaked Crusader.
Elliott, David.  The Transmogrificiation of Roscoe Wizzle.
Geras, Adèle.  The Fabulous Fantoras series.
Gifford, Peggy Elizabeth.  Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little.
Gleitzman, Morris.  Toad Heaven.
Gorman, Carol.  Lizard Flanagan, Supermodel??
Gutman, Dan.  The Kid Who Ran for President.
Gutman, Dan.  My Weird School series.
Hale, Bruce.  Chet Gecko series.
Hicks, Betty.  Busted!
Honey, Elizabeth.  Don't Pat the Wombat!
Hornik, Laurie Miller.  The Secrets of Ms. Snickle's Class.
Horvath, Polly.  The Pepins and Their Problems.
Ibbotson, Eva.  Beasts of Clawstone Castle.
Justesen, Kim Williams.  My Brother the Dog.
Klise, Kate.  Regarding the Fountain: A Tale, in Letters, of Liars and Leaks.
Kurzweil, Allen.  Leon and the Champion Chip.
Lawrence, Michael.  The Killer Underpants: A Jiggy McCue Story.
Lay, Kathryn.  Crown Me!
Lindgren, Astrid.  Pippi Longstocking series.
Lowry, Lois.  Anastasia Krupnick series.
Lubar, David.  Punished!
Maguire, Gregory.  A Couple of April Fools.
Mason, Simon.  The Quigleys series.
Montgomery, Claire.  Hubert Invents the Wheel.
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds.  Beetles, Lightly Toasted.
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds.  Boys vs. Girls series.
Pilkey, Dav.  Captain Underpants series.
Pinkwater, Daniel Manus.  Looking for Bobowicz: A Hoboken Chicken Story.
Pinkwater, Daniel Manus.  The Neddiad: How Neddie Took the Train, Went to Hollywood, and Saved Civilization.
Pitchford, Dean.  The Big One-Oh.
Proimos, James.  Cowboy Boy.
Pullman, Philip.  I Was a Rat!
Riddleburger, Sam.  The Qwikpick Adventure Society.
Scieszka, Jon.  Time Warp Trio series.
Springer, Nancy, ed.  Ribbiting Tales: Original Stories about Frogs.
Stine, R. L.  Rotten School series.
Tripping Over the Lunch Lady, and Other School Stories.
Urban, Linda.  A Crooked Kind of Perfect.
Wardlaw, Lee.  101 Ways to Bug Your Parents.
Whybrow, Ian.  Little Wolf's Book of Badness.
Winkler, Henry.  Hank Zipzer series.