Funny Books

Ripley's Believe It or Not! is guaranteed to amaze and entertain children and adults alike with its unique blend of weird but true stories and jaw-dropping facts gathered from all over the world. This year... Marvel at the ice caves of Alaska. Find out what very unusual food Icelanders eat at their traditional mid-winter feast. Discover why Lucas the penguin has to wear rubber boots. Hear about the woman who sailed down the Missouri River in a giant hollowed-out pumpkin. And take the 'Funny Bones' test to see whether you can match photographs of skeletons to their animal owners. No Christmas is complete without Ripley's! Product Information: • ISBN: 9781529941203 • Author: Ripley • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Hardback • Pages: 256 • Dimensions: 30.5 x 23.6 x 2.2cm

Dog Man and Petey face their biggest challenges yet in the tenth Dog Man book from worldwide bestselling author and illustrator Dav Pilkey - now available in paperback. Dog Man is down on his luck, Petey confronts his not so purr-fect past, and Grampa is up to no good. The world is spinningout of control as new villains spill into town. Everything seems dark and full of despair. But hope is not lost. Can the incredible power of love save the day? Product Information: • ISBN: 9780702313493 • Author: Dav Pilkey • Publisher: Scholastic • Format: Paperback • Pages: 224 • Dimensions: 21.1 x 15 x 1.4 cm

The Supa Buddies bamboozled the baddies, but all's not right in the world. Dog Man has a new problem to pound, and he's going to need his entire pack to help him. Will he go barking up the wrong tree? Product Information: • ISBN: 9780702310676 • Author: Dav Pilkey • Publisher: Scholastic • Format: Paperback • Pages: 240 • Dimensions: 21.2 x 14.8 x 1.5cm

Bunny and his friends Weenie the Squittel, Pig (the pig), Action Beaver, and Skunky the Inventor live peacefully in the woods. Until one day, when the chaotic force of nature Monkey is fired into their midst by the British Space programme! (They were aiming for the Moon).  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781788451772 • Author:  Jamie Smart  • Publisher:  David Fickling Books • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  256 • Dimensions:  14 x 1.6 x 21 cm  

The hilarious new sequel to The Extremely Embarrassing Life of Lottie Brooks by the bestselling creator of Hurrah for Gin. Lottie Brooks is back for spring term at secondary school and ready to face anything. No more trying to impress mean girl Amber. And absolutely no more being nicknamed Cucumber Girl. A lead role in the spring musical gives Lottie a chance to dazzle her mega-crush Daniel with her talent as a singing crab but it's not all singing and dancing at Kingswood High. Lottie's friendship with Molly and Jess seems to be falling apart no matter how hard she tries to keep her BFFs together. Is Lottie on track for another epic friendship fail? Product Information:  • ISBN: 9780241460900 • Author: Katie Kirby • Publisher: Penguin Random House Children’s UK • Format:  Paperback • Pages: 448 • Dimensions:  12.9 x 19.6 x 3.2cm

Since he crash-landed on Earth in a rocket, Monkey has been causing absolute mayhem!  Bunny and the gang (Squirrel, Pig, Action Beaver, and Skunky the Inventor) have almost had enough. Monkey's eternal struggle for world domination is getting more ridiculous every day, and it's impossible to predict which bizarre plan he's going to put into action next.  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781788452304 • Author:  Jamie Smart  • Publisher:  David Fickling Books • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  256 • Dimensions:  14 x 1.6 x 21 cm  

Ho-ho-ho! Join in the magical adventure as Santa comes to visit on the night before Christmas. With eleven festive sound buttons to press along the way and charming illustrations by Ned Taylor, this retelling of the fun, classic poem is the perfect gift for young children wanting a noisy, festive storytime this christmas. Product Information:• ISBN: 9781785577710• Author: Igloo Books• Publisher: Igloo Books• Format: Hardback• Pages: 10• Dimensions: 25 x 26.5 x 1.5cm

A laugh-out-loud silly rhyming picture book, featuring 101 different animal bums! Bums in the jungle, bums in the town. Bums in the treetops, hanging upside down. Bums in the farmyard, bums in the park. Lots of teeny-tiny bums, glowing in the dark! Featuring an array of animal bums - from little to large, and everything in between - this brilliantly silly picture book is sure to get children giggling. Just follow the bouncy read-aloud rhyme, then get ready to join in with the jiggly wiggly dance finale! Product Information: • ISBN: 9781444955002 • Author: Sam Harper & Chris Jevons • Publisher: Hodder Children's Books • Format: Paperback • Pages: 32 • Dimensions: 24.8 x 25 x 0.6 cm

Lottie Brooks is BACK for more extremely embarrassing adventures as she goes on holiday and gets her very first boyfriend! Things that are rubbish in my life: Have the most disgusting little brother in the entire world, have to get braces when am on the brink of having my first kiss and mum is making cottage pie for dinner. VOM. Finally summer has arrived and Lottie has BIG plans - scrolling through Instagram, dreaming about MEGA-crush Daniel and sunbathing by the pool on their family holiday to France. Then Lottie meets new CRUSH Antoine. The language is a tiny bit of a barrier but does it matter when he's THAT good looking? Product Information:  • ISBN: 9780241562031 • Author: Katie Kirby • Publisher: Penguin • Format:  Paperback • Pages: 466 • Dimensions: 12.9 x 19.8 x 4cm

Big changes are in store for Greg Heffley and his family. They are making home improvements! But with unwelcome critters, toxic mould and the walls coming down, soon Greg discovers renovations aren't all they are cracked up to be. When the dust finally settles, will the Heffleys be able to stay . . . or will they need to get out of town? Product Information: • ISBN: 9780241396926 • Author: Jeff Kinney • Publisher: Puffin • Format: Paperback • Pages: 240 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.5cm

Book Nineteen of the hilarious, bestselling Tom Gates series, written by the brilliantly talented Liz Pichon! Oh no! Tom's stuck at home with a fractured ankle and it's spoiling his fun. Doodling on his plaster cast helps to pass the time, along with visits from family (with treats), friends and even Rooster managing to sneak in. But only ONE thing will cheer Tom up: a caramel doughnut from the new bakery... trouble is, every other kid in town keeps getting there before him!  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781407191133 • Author:  Liz Pichon • Publisher:  Scholastic • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  240 • Dimensions:  15.4 x 1.8 x 19.2 cm

Meet Nikki Maxwell (aka Queen of the Dorks!) in the first book in the mega-selling Dork Diaries series, for fans of Lottie Brooks. Join the jokes, drama and aDORKable BFFs... New school. New Crush. New mean girl. New diary, so Nikki can spill all!  Nikki Maxwell has never been popular but now she’s started at a new school, she’s hoping to leave her old dorky ways behind.  Follow Nikki's adorkable life through sketches, doodles and diary entries as she shares all the details of her not-so-fabulous life full of BFF drama, hopeless crushes and an extremely cringe-worthy family.   Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781398527553 • Author:  Rachel Renee Russell  • Publisher:  Simon & Schuster Children's UK • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  352 • Dimensions:   13 x 2.1 x 19.8 cm

Make your appointment if you dare… Darkness had come to the town. Strange things were happening in the dead of night. Children would put a tooth under their pillow for the tooth fairy, but in the morning they would wake up to find… a dead slug; a live spider; hundreds of earwigs creeping and crawling beneath their pillow. Evil was at work. But who or what was behind it... Product Information: • ISBN: 9780007453580 • Author: David Walliams • Publisher: Harper Collins • Format: Paperback • Pages: 440 • Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 3.5cm

Book Twenty of the hilarious, bestselling Tom Gates series, written by the brilliantly talented Liz Pichon! It's TIDY UP Saturday, but Tom is VERY busy relaxing and not helping out much. Until he spots the art box of his dreams in a shop window and everything changes. He's suddenly focused on earning extra pocket money and helping with EVERYTHING. But nothing quite goes to plan. Washing and shrinking Delia's clothes isn't a good start. And the hours spent carefully cleaning cars with Derek are ruined overnight when a storm hits Oakfield Town, causing even MORE chaos. At this rate it's going to take a MILLION years for Tom to get the art box of his dreams... or will it? Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780702326578 • Author:  Liz Pichon • Publisher:  Scholastic • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  256 • Dimensions: 18.8 x 2.4 x 15 cm

Things are not looking good for Zoe. Her stepmother Sheila is so lazy she gets Zoe to pick her nose for her. The school bully Tina Trotts makes her life a misery – mainly by flobbing on her head. And now the evil Burt from Burt’s Burgers is after her pet rat! And guess what he wants to do with it? The clue is in the title... From the author that is being called ‘a new Roald Dahl’, Ratburger is not to be missed! Product Information: • ISBN: 9780007453542 • Author: David Walliams • Publisher: Harper Collins • Format: Paperback • Pages: 316 • Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2.5cm

Hilarious, pitch-perfect stories where everyday school life becomes completely extraordinary! By a brilliant author/illustrator team with laughs on every page! Izzy’s school is being merged with St Bartholomew’s Primary, their greatest rivals! What will happen when the new kids join, in their too-shiny shoes and with their too-loud singing? And what if they’ve got a secret mission and that mission is a BAD mission? Only Izzy and her friends can discover the truth, even if they must go SO DEEP UNDERCOVER that they might not come back… Product Information: • ISBN: 9781839940491 • Author: Pamela Butchart  • Publisher: Nosy Crow Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 336 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 cm

Dennis was different. Why was he different, you ask? Well, a small clue might be in the title of this book. Full of heart, wit and a touch of Roald Dahl-style anarchy, it finds 12-year-old Dennis living unhappily after his mum leaves the family. A crack of light shines through as he strikes up a friendship with a girl based on their mutual love of Vogue magazine - and soon Dennis is trying out some of her dresses... Product Information: • ISBN: 9780007279043 • Author: David Walliams • Publisher: Harper Collins • Format: Paperback • Pages: 232 • Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2cm

Tom's doing everything possible to stay out of trouble but somehow, he's got three sad faces on the school achievement chart! And getting another sad face means Mr Fullerman won't let him go on the school trip. Moany Marcus Meldrew is making things worse and now Tom's annoyed his grumpy sister Delia. Can his best friend Derek help? Will Rooster the dog stop eating his homework? Product Information: • ISBN: 9781407186733 • Author: Liz Pichon • Publisher: Scholastic • Format: Paperback • Pages: 256 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 16.5 x 2cm

Crazy but true, life on Earth can't exist without poo! Starting with human sewage then moving on to animal poo, this surprisingly charming lift-the-flap book explores what happens when we flush, what animal toilets look like, why animals don't need to flush and just how important poo is - for a myriad of fascinating (and sometimes yucky) reasons. Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781474986434 • Author: Katie Daynes • Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd • Format:  Paperback • Pages: 12 • Dimensions: 22.2 x 19.8 cm

Hilarious, illustrated school-based antics where everything that happens leads to DRAMA and RUNNING AROUND and even some FAINTING! Izzy and her friends are on a school trip to a big lake. Gary Petrie is excited because the lodges where they’re staying have ROBES AND SLIPPERS! The lake is dark and deep and a bit scary. But it’s when they open their packed lunches that they know! There’s a MONSTER in the lake and it’s coming for their CRISPS! Laugh-out-loud fun from Blue Peter Award winners Pamela Butchart and Thomas Flintham. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781788009690 • Author: Pamela Butchart  • Publisher: Nosy Crow Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 320 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 cm