National Humor Month
If you have a funnybone
and you have picture book readers, celebrate National Humor Month with some of
these titles!
Mo Willems is known for
his unusual take on the ordinary and his laugh-out-loud style. We Are in aBook! is just one of the hilarious works where Elephant and Piggie find they
are inside of a book and are being read.
The perspective from which Willems reaches out to emerging readers will
have you laughing too.
Oliver Jeffers, author
of The Incredible Book Eating Boy, presents an engaging book to read to
preschool and school-age children, and also provides a story that poses some
thoughtful messages about what it means to be smart. In the story, a boy starts eating books - a
nibble at first and later whole books - and he thinks he is becoming smart,
smarter than his teacher. When he gets
ill and his loses his sense of smartness, he finds another use for books, one
that will also make him smart. Kids
gobble up this book. Do not forget to look
at the end pages!
What Does the Fox Say by Svein Nyhus, adapted into print from the YouTube dance and song video of the
same name, is equally funny. Nyhus
explores animal sounds, but makes it clear in a tongue twisting, rhythm
thumping way, that the fox has much more to say. 
Mem Fox’s picture book, A Particular Cow, features a “particular” cow who goes on her “particular”
morning walk, and usually nothing happens until one “particular” Saturday, when
she meets a “particular” postman, three “particular dogs,” a “particular” party
of children and more. This is a humorous
look at our old friend cow.
Margie Palatini has us laughing on our
storytime mats with her picture book, The Cheese. This is a hilarious riff on the favorite
nursery rhyme “The Farmer in the Dell.”
Readers will discover what really happened to that hunk of cheddar.
- Nancy D.
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