Choose one book from the list below or any other humorous book that tickles your funny bone. Read it. Pick a part of it that you think is funniest. Be able to write, talk, and draw a picture about it when you return to school. Make sure you know the title and the author of the book you choose. Happy reading! P.S. Feel free to read any of the other books included in the packet.
| Bark, George | Jules Feiffer |
| Kat Kong | Dav Pilkey |
| Martha Walks the Dog | Susan Meddaugh |
| No, David! | David Shannon |
| The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs | Jon Scieszka |
| The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales | Jon Scieszka |
| Beezus and Ramona | Beverly Cleary |
| The Best Christmas Pageant Ever | Barbara Robinson |
| Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus | Barbara Park |
| The Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog | John R. Erickson |
| Goose Chase | Patrice Kindl |
| Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing | Judy Blume |
| Wayside School Is Falling Down | Louis Sachar |
| Bearsie Bear and the Surprise Sleepover Party | Bernard Weber |
| A Friend for Minerva Louise | Janet Morgan Stoeke |
| The Hat | Jan Brett |
| In the Rain with Baby Duck | Amy Hest |
| McDuff Moves In | Rosemary Weis |
| Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten | Joseph Slate |
| The Squiggle | Carol Lexa Schaeffer |
| There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly | Simms Taback |
| Walking Through the Jungle | Debbie Herter |
| The Adventures of Sparrowboy | Brian Pinkney |
| All: Child of the Desert | Jonathan London |
| Amanda Pig, Schoolgirl | Jean Van Leeuwen |
| Art Dog | Thacher Hurd |
| Bamboozled | David Legge |
| Bantam of the Opera | Mary Jane Auch |
| Bunny Money | Rosemary Wells |
| Burnt Toast on Davenport Street | Tim Egan |
| Dinorella: A Prehistoric Fairy Tale | Pamela Duncan |
| Down the Road | Alice Schertle |
| Fanny's Dream | Carolyn Buehner |
| Feliciana Feydra LeRoux: A Cajun Tall Tale | Tynia Thomassie |
| Gina | Bernard Waber |
| Heat Wave at Mud Flat | James Stevenson |
| Henry and Mudge in the Family Trees | Cynthia Rylant |
| Here Come the Aliens | Colin McNaughton |
| Just Another Ordinary Day | Rod Clement |
| Library Lil | Suzanne Williams |
| Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse | Kevin Henkes |
| Lunch Bunnies | Kathryn Latsky |
| The Magic School Bus Inside a Beehive | Joanna Cole |
| Nate the Great Saves the King of Sweden | Marjorie Weinman Sharmat |
| Officer Buckle and Gloria | Peggy Rathmann |
| Piggie Pie | Margie Palatini |
| Amelia's Notebook | Marissa Moss |
| Flatfoot Fox and the Case of the Bashful Beaver | Eth Clifford |
| Forever Amber Brown | Paula Danziger |
| More Stories Huey Tells | Ann Cameron |
| Pinky and Rex and the Bully | James Howe |
| The Puppy Sister | S. E. Hinton |
| An Alphabet of Dinosaurs | Peter Dodson |
| Archaeologists Dig for Clues | Katie Duke |
| Brother Rabbit: A Cambodian Tale | Minfong Ho and Saphan Ros |
| A Child's Book of Play in Art | Lucy Micklethwaite |
| Dinosaur Dinner (with a Slice of Alligator Pie) | Dennis Lee |
| The Gingerbread Boy | Richard Egielski |
| How We Crossed the West: The Adventures of Lewis and Clark | Rosalyn Schanzer |
| Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man | David A. Adler |
| One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale | Demi |
| A Pizza the Size of the Sun | Jack Prelutsky |
| Rapunzel | Paul O. Zelinsky |
| Say Hola to Spanish | Susan Middleton |
| What Do You Do When Something Wants to Eat You? | Steve Jenkins |
| Wiley and the Hairy Man | Judy Sierra |
| Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman | Kathleen Krull |
| Featured Theme Books |
|
| Anna, Grandpa, and the Big Storm | Carla Stevens |
| Bimwili and the Zimwi | Verna Aardema |
| The Boy and the Ghost | Robert D. San Souci |
| Flossie and the Fox | Patricia McKissack |
| The Glorious Flight Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot | Alice and Martin Provensen |
| The Gold Coin | Alma Flor Ada |
| The Keeping Quilt | Patricia Polacco |
| The Moon, the Sun, and the Coyote | Judith Cole |
| Perfect Crane | Anne Laurin |
| Polar Bear Cubs | Downs Matthews |
| Some Birthday! | Patricia Polacco |
| Strega Nona | Tomie dePaola |
| The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks | Katherine Paterson |
| Well, I Never! | Susan Pearson |
| Why Dolphins Call: A Story of Dionysus | Jamie and Scott Simons |
| The Wise Woman and Her Secret | Eve Merriam |
| More Books to Enjoy |
|
| And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? | Jean Fritz |
| The Bears on Hemlock Mountain | Alice Dalgliesh |
| Beats Me, Claude | Joan Lowrey Nixon |
| Cherries and Cherry Pits | Vera B. Williams |
| Chin Chiang and the Dragon's Dance | Ian Wallace |
| Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | Judi Barrett |
| The Courage of Sarah Noble | Alice Dalgliesh |
| A Drop of Honey | Djemma Bider |
| The Farm Book | E. Boyd Smith |
| Finger Rhymes | Marc Brown |
| A First Look at Seashells | Millicent E. Selsam and Joyce Hunt |
| First Snow | Helen Coutant |
| The Gift of the Sacred Dog | Paul Goble |
| Harriet Tubman | Polly Carter |
| Life on a Fishing Boat | Huck Scarry |
| Louis Braille | Margaret Davidson |
| The Major and the Mousehole Mice | Jane Chelsea Aragon |
| The Many Lives of Benjamin Franklin | Aliki |
| Ramona the Brave | Beverly Cleary |
| Roland the Minstrel Pig | William Steig |
| Sea Songs | Myra Cohn Livingston |
| The Seeing Stick | Jane Yolen |
| Seven Kisses in a Row | Patricia MacLachlan |
| The Six Swans | Robert D. San Souci |
| Skimmers | Downs Matthews |
| Something Queer at the Library | Elizabeth Levy |
| Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | Robert Frost |
| Wagon Wheels | Barbara Brenner |
| Who's That Girl with the Gun? A Story of Annie Oakley | Robert Quackenbush |
| Why Spiders Spin | Jamie and Scott Simons |
| Everyday Choices |
|
| The Adventures of Ali Baba Bernstein | Johanna Hurwitz |
| Aesop's Fables | Anne White |
| Africa Dream | Eloise Greenfield |
| Afro-Bets Book of Black Heroes from A to Z | Wade Hudson and Valerie Wilson |
| Aldo Ice Cream | Johanna Hurwitz |
| The Amazing Bone | William Steig |
| And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? | Jean Fritz |
| Annie and the Old One | Miska Miles |
| Anno's Aesop: A Book of Fables by Aesop and Mr. Fox | Mitsumasa Anno |
| Any Me I Want to Be | Karla Kuskin |
| Arctic Memories | Normee Ekoomiak |
| A Bed for the Wind | Roger B. Goodman |
| Behind the Scenes of a Broadway Musical | Bill Powers |
| The Best Bad Thing | Yoshiko Uchida |
| The Black Stallion | Walter Farley |
| Blue Moose | Daniel Manus Pinkwater |
| A Boy in the Doghouse | Betsy Duffey |
| The Boy Who Didn't Believe in Spring | Lucille Clifton |
| Burt Dow: Deep Water Man | Robert McCloskey |
| The Butterfly That Stamped: A Just So Story | Rudyard Kipling |
| The Case of the Sabotaged School Play | Marilyn Singer |
| Catching the Wind | Joanne Ryder |
| Celiana and the Enchanted City | Fernando Alonso |
| Child of the Silent Night | Edith Fisher Hunter |
| A Children's Museum Activity Book: Bubbles | Bernie Zubrowski |
| Cindy, a Hearing Ear Dog | Patricia Curtis |
| Clamshell Boy | Terrri Cohlene |
| Class Clown | Johanna Hurwitz |
| Cowardly Clyde | Bill Peet |
| The Crab That Played with the Sea: A Just So Story | Rudyard Kipling |
| The Crane Wife | Sumiko Yagawa |
| Cross Country Cat | Mary Calhoun |
| Did You Carry the Flag Today, Charley? | Rebecca Caudill |
| Dive to the Coral Reefs | The New England Aquarium Staff |
| Doctor Coyote: A Native American Aesop's Fable | John Bierhorst |
| The Drinking Gourd | F. N. Monjo |
| The Elephant's Child | Rudyard Kipling |
| The Enchanted Tapestry | Robert D. San Souci |
| Fables | Arnold Lobel |
| Fat Men From Space | Daniel Manus Pinkwater |
| First Came the Indians | M. J. Wheeler |
| Frank and Ernest Play Ball | Alexandra Day |
| From Abenaki to Zuni: A Dictionary of Native American Tribes | Evelyn Wolfson |
| The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses | Paul Goble |
| The Gnats of Knotty Pine | Bill Peet |
| Handtalk Zoo | George Ancona and Mary B. Miller |
| The Hole in the Ocean | Jasper Tomkins |
| A Horse Named Paris | Lynn Sonberg |
| Housekeeper of the Wind | Christine Widman |
| Howard | James Stevenson |
| How Many Days to America? | Eve Bunting |
| How the Rainbow Came to Be | Alma Flor Ada |
| How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin | Rudyard Kipling |
| How to Be an Ocean Scientist in Your Own Home | Seymour Simon |
| Ibis: A True Whale Story | John Himmelman |
| I Can't Always Hear You | Joy Zelonky |
| If You Made a Million | David M. Schwartz |
| I Have a Sister, My Sister Is Deaf | Jeanne Whitehouse Peterson |
| Immigrant Girl: Becky of Eldridge Street | Brett Harvey |
| The King Has Horse's Ears | Peggy Thomson |
| Ko-hoh: The Call of the Trumpeter Swan | Jay Featherly |
| Koko's Story | Francine Patterson |
| Laura Ingalls Wilder | Gwenda Blair |
| The Legend of the Blue Bonnet: An Old Tale of Texas | Tomie dePaola |
| Liang and the Magic Paintbrush | Demi |
| The Lion and the Mouse | Mary Lewis Wang |
| A Lion to Guard Us | Clyde Robert Bulla |
| Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain | Edward Ardizzone |
| Making Musical Things: Improvised Instruments | Ann Wiseman |
| McElligot's Pool | Dr. Seuss |
| Ming Lo Moves the Mountain | Arnold Lobel |
| More Stories Julian Tells | Ann Cameron |
| Mountain Boy | Anna Catherine Josephs |
| Mr. & Mrs. Muddle | Mary Ann Hoberman |
| Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle | Betty MacDonald |
| No Flying in the House | Betty Brock |
| Oh, Kojo! How Could You? | Verna Aardema |
| The Orphan Boy | Tololwa M. Mollel |
| Phillis Wheatly, America's First Black Poetess | Miriam Morris Fuller |
| A Picture Book of George Washington | David A. Adler |
| The Plymouth Thanksgiving | Leonard Weisgard |
| Pondlarker | Fred Gwynne |
| Protecting Endangered Species at the San Diego Zoo | Georgeann Irvine |
| Ragtime Tumpie | Alan Schroeder |
| Ramona the Brave | Beverly Cleary |
| Ring of Earth: A Child's Book of Seasons | Jane Yolen |
| Rip-Roaring Russell | Johanna Hurwitz |
| Roger's Umbrella | Daniel Manus Pinkwater |
| Safari | Caren Barzelay Stelson |
| Sea Swan | Kathryn Lasky |
| A Show of Hands: Say It in Sign Language | Mary Beth Sullivan and Linda Bourke |
| Socks | Beverly Cleary |
| Steven and the Green Turtle | William J. Cromie |
| Stina | Lena Anderson |
| Storms | Seymour Simon |
| The Story of Jumping Mouse | John Steptoe |
| Stuart Little | E. B. White |
| Summer Business | Charles E. Martin |
| The Supreme Souvenir Factory | James Stevenson |
| Sybil Rides for Independence | Drollene P. Brown |
| Tales from Aesop | Harold Jones |
| Tales of an Ashanti Father | Peggy Appiah |
| Teammates | Peter Golenbock |
| This Place Is Wet | Vicki Cobb |
| This Year's Garden | Cynthia Rylant |
| Through Grandpa's Eyes | Patricia McLachlan |
| Tigers and Opossums: Animal Legends | Marcos Kurtycz and Ana Garcia Kobeh |
| Tim and Charlotte | Edward Ardizzone |
| Tim to the Lighthouse | Edward Ardizzone |
| To the Point: A Story About E. B. White | David R. Collins |
| Train Ride | John Steptoe |
| The Tram to Bondi Beach | Elizabeth Hawthorne |
| The Turtle | Hidetomo Oda |
| The Turtle and the Island | Barbara Ker Wilson |
| The Turtle and the Monkey | Paul Galdone |
| Ty's One-Man Band | Mildred Pitts Walter |
| Undersea Machines | R. J. Stephen |
| Watch the Stars Come Out | Riki Levinson |
| We Can't Sleep | James Stevenson |
| What Are You Figuring Now? A Story About Benjamin Banneker | Jeri Ferris |
| What Will the Weather Be? | Lynda DeWitt |
| Who's in Rabbit's House? | Verna Aardema |
| Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams? | Jean Fritz |
| Will You Please Feed Our Cat? | James Stevenson |
| A Writer | M. B. Goffstein |
| Yellow and Pink | William Steig |
| Yellow Blue Jay | Johanna Hurwitz |