October, November, December 2025 -- Humour > Likes and Comments
(I'm just going to sneak in and mention that there are plenty of funny picture books about the turkey re' Thanksgiving, too. As you were.... :)
Cheryl wrote: "(I'm just going to sneak in and mention that there are plenty of funny picture books about the turkey re' Thanksgiving, too. As you were.... :)"I sometimes forget how important a holiday Thanksgiving is in the USA and that it is a month later than in Canada.
FOLKLORE AND HUMOURGone Is Gone: or the Story of a Man Who Wanted to Do Housework
Unlike folkloric tales involving magic, fairies and supernatural entities, Gone is Gone: Or the Story of a Man Who Wanted to do Housework is simply (but delightfully) a typical and hilariously funny little tale of a husband who thinks that his on the field outside chores (such as ploughing, sowing, hoeing, baling etc.) are oh so very much more difficult and strenuous than his wife's "easy and relaxing" housework (and who learns an important and essential lesson that this is certainly not at all the case when he agrees to switch roles with his wife and with EVERYTHING going wrong for him, with the husband not being able to successfully complete even one of his wife's daily home-based tasks). Truly a lovely story with an important and yes for the 1930s very modern message is Gone is Gone: Or the Story of a Man Who Wanted to do Housework (and indeed accompanied by author and illustrator Wanda Gág's signature and descriptive black and white artwork), I have really enjoyed reading Gone is Gone: Or the Story of a Man Who Wanted to do Housework and have very much appreciated how the message of gender respect is presented so naturally and with such sweet humour (and yes, Gone is Gone: Or the Story of a Man Who Wanted to do Housework is also to be highly and warmly recommended, my personal wishes that the author's note would provide more details on the original story quite notwithstanding and insignificant).
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FOLKLORE AND HUMOURMother Goose Unplucked: Crazy Comics, Zany Activities, Nutty Facts, and Other Twisted Takes on Childhood Favorites
A fun and engagingly entertaining reading experience for both adult me (and equally so for my inner child) Mother Goose Unplucked: Crazy Comics, Zany Activities, Nutty Facts, and Other Twisted Takes on Childhood Favorites has been, with the huge amount of interactive games and fun word-based activities Becker textually provides indeed and absolutely presenting lots and lots to adore and to appreciate for children (as well as for adults) who enjoy folklore and in particular fractured fairy tales and nursery rhymes.
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FOLKORE AND HUMOURThe Ragamuffins
1989 picture book and retelling of the Brothers Grimm tale of Das Lumpegesindel (where a hen, a rooster, a duck, a needle and a pin on their way home visit an inn and where the hen and the rooster simply because they can stick it to the landlord with the pin and the needle), funny but also more than a bit cruel and that I do like Bernadette Watts' English retelling better than the German original (since the Grimms in their text can be a bit convoluted), liked the illustrations and that Watts does not make the rooster, the hen and the duck wear human clothing (but I do wish that the innkeeper were depicted as human and not as a cat wearing an apron).
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My nephew LOVED the DogMan comics Dogman, especially the puns which took him awhile to understand but when he did, he laughed and laughed at the joke. I love the punny titles based on real books. I got him a joke book one year but I don't remember what it was.
NON FICTION/JOKES The Fartionary
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Andy Jones (text) and David Puckeridge (black and white cartoon images), their 2011 The Fartionary (geared in my humble opinion thematics and contents wise towards young readers from about the age of six to twelve but is also more than suitable for interested teenagers and adults as well) is absolutely delightful (that The Fartionary is equally considerably more humorous, is often much more laugh-out-loud hilarious than I in any way even remotely would and could have expected).
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Andy Jones (text) and David Puckeridge (black and white cartoon images), their ..."
Ok then... she thought skeptically....
I am reading and enjoying What Happens When the Queen Burps? and What Do You Call a One-Eyed Dinosaur? (both by John Foster). The jokes, riddles and the like are definitely fun (but sometimes also rather groan-worthy) and while I am often laughing, I do wonder if less would be more since after about twenty pages, I was definitely getting a bit bored (not yet ready to review the books, but once I do, the ratings will likely be around three stars), But yes, I have definitely been laughing a bit (and even at jokes and riddles that would and should make me groan).
PARODY Harry Potty and the Deathly Boring
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Not bad, definitely decently enjoyable for my inner child, but much too over the top so to speak, way too many bad puns, jokes and bathroom humour for adult I, and indeed, that Stefan Petrucha's textual confusion regarding who Harry Potty and the Deathly Boring is geared towards leaves a rather generous and also pretty low three star rating.
PARODYBored of the Rings: A Parody of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
This is pretty similar to Harry Potty and the Deathly Boring, with the same issues of the humour getting rather tedious and over the top (except that Bored of the Rings has definitely been penned more for young adult and adult readers, although there is also typical toilet humour, horrid but funny puns, silly kids stuff so to speak).
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FUNNY HALLOWEEN Happy Haunting, Amelia Bedelia
20th Amelia Bedelia book (written by the nephew of the original author), suitable for independent readers from about five to eight years of age (or for reading aloud), typical Amelia Bedelia getting things wrong, misunderstanding nuances, jokes etc., nice and sweetly fun (never creepy) Halloween humour story (would have loved this when I was around seven years old).
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I loved Amelia Bedelia books when I was a kid! She was so silly. Other books I read around the same time
George and Martha: The Complete Stories of Two Best Friends
and The Stupids series
I'm sure my younger siblings liked the humor.
When my sister grew up and her daughter refused to sleep or go to sleep without eating, I bought my sister
Go the F**k to Sleep and You Have to Fucking Eat (Go the Fuck to Sleep #2)
More for the moms and dads or for babies who can't understand the language but I thought they were hysterical.
I read some of the early Amelia Bedelia books after we moved to Canada when I was ten (the stories were fun, easy to read for someone just learning English, but also helped me with English grammar, syntax, nuances and the like).
I do wonder if the continuations of Amelia Bedelia are any good. I don't want to try, tbh.
My favorite joke & riddle book of all time is 101 Elephant Jokes. I reviewed it - Omg.
When I was young, maybe about 9, there was a certain thrift store my mother took us to every few months. I don't know why. I don't know what my brothers did while waiting. But what I did was rummage in the big bargain bin, unearth this, and read it. Every time.
And now I've found it on openlibrary.org and I'm laughing out loud. It's great because many of the jokes are in little sequential chains... they don't make sense unless you've read the previous ones in each chain. Well, as much sense as they can ever make, of course....
It doesn't matter that you don't have a chance to try to guess the answers to the riddles. They're not all that funny on their own. It's the 'narrative' effect that makes it so successful.
Cheryl wrote: "I do wonder if the continuations of Amelia Bedelia are any good. I don't want to try, tbh."I liked Happy Haunting, Amelia Bedelia, but I have only read this one of the continuations.
JOKESWhat Do You Call a One-Eyed Dinosaur?
John Foster's 2013 What Do You Call a One-Eyed Dinosaur? is basically a collection, is a compilation of almost one hundred pages of very much and specifically geared towards elementary school children jokes, riddles, tongue twisters and limericks (not just about dinosaurs, but yes, dinosaurs as a group do make up a pretty large part of What Do You Call a One-Eyed Dinosaur?). Very juvenile, in my opinion can get a bit tedious for older readers (and definitely most suitable for younger readers from about the age of six to around eleven). Not going to review What Happens When the Queen Burps? and other John Foster compilations because they will likely be entire the same as What Do You Call a One-Eyed Dinosaur?.
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Well, I do want to point out that with regard to parodies geared towards young readers, for me, the most successful parodies are those that work for both children and also for teenagers and adults. Therefore, a parody like Harry Potty and the Deathly Boring at best only really works for elementary school children, that it gets pretty boring pretty quickly, that there is also some weird adult stuff and just a huge amount of one lame gag after another (that the book title indeed shows that the parody is deathly boring or quickly gets that way).But indeed, Bea Wolf is not just an homage to Beowulf but is also a loving and fun parody, is a graphic novel that works (and is delightfully fun) for both children and also for adults.
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Bea Wolf is great. I don't know if I'd have thought about it as fitting a humor tag, but I see your point.Fractured fairy tales are usually funny, too, and I read just about every one I see. Today I gave four stars to Big Bad Wolf's Yom Kippur; it's funny and heartwarming too.
FUNNY HALLOWEENAsiago
I really like how both verbally and illustratively, both vampire boy Asiago and great uncle Gouda are never scary acting or even scary looking (although they do look like vampires, but just not frightening ones), with the combination of Adam McHeffey's text and his images for Asiago being delightful, being both sweet and also gently humorous, and that for both my inner child and equally so for adult me Asiago rates as solidly five stars and is also warmly recommended, that when Asiago is pretty miserable at the beach because of sunlight, wood and shrimp cooked with garlic (all things not good for vampires), his friends Wendy, Sam and Tom (who are not vampires) instead have fun with Asiago at the beach at night (when there is no sunlight to threaten Asiago's vampire skin).
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FUNNY HALLOWEEN Mummy & Me: A Monster’s Tale
A fun and sweet story of a Wee Wolf and his parent (his Mummy), what they do all night and how Mummy is always patient and loving even when Wee Wolf becomes too boisterous (humorous, sweetly creepy without being scary and with a loving message of parental love and tolerance), five stars especially from my inner child (and a perfect Halloween picture book for parents to share with their young children).
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FUNNY HALLOWEENI Do Not Eat Children
Loved this and was giggling throughout, although some parents might freak out at the fact that one by one, children are disappearing until one little girl turns the tables on the monster.
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Cheryl wrote: "Bea Wolf is great. I don't know if I'd have thought about it as fitting a humor tag, but I see your point.Fractured fairy tales are usually funny, too, and I read just about every one I see. Toda..."
I do not think one has to consider Bea Wolf a parody (or even humour), but for me the book fits.
And yes, I read a lot of fun fractured fairy tales when we did the graphic novel folklore and mythology topic in the Fiction Club.
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HALLOWEEN HUMOUR 101 Spooky Halloween Jokes
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Melvin A. Berger's 1993 101 Spooky Halloween Jokes is never frightening, is lighthearted and is basically also totally quick-fire like in nature so to speak (in other words, the Halloween themed wit and humour of 101 Spooky Halloween Jokes consists of very short and thus generally only about one to three lines maximum in length featured examples). And yes, especially my inner child does find a goodly number of Berger's puns, riddles and jokes for 101 Spooky Halloween Jokes decently and sufficiently funny (not ever truly laugh-out-loud so but often enough to still leaving me at least rather mildly chuckling), although the book is a bit too long, the Halloween themed jokes, puns, riddles etc. get a bit boring and repetitive (and that there is also quite a bit of eye rolling instead of laughter).
JOKES Spooky Joke Book
Artificial humour (at least in my opinion) and illustrations that are not to my taste make Spooky Joke Book only a one star reading experience (although I do admit that some kids might well find this book much more humorous than I have, but I just have not liked anything about Spooky Joke Book).
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What We Found in the Corn Maze and How It Saved a Dragon could be taken too seriously by some readers. But if approached expecting humor, it's much more enjoyable, imo.
The Diary of a Killer Cat
I was originally not going to read the sequels because while Tuffy's voice is funny (although a bit too anthropomorphic for me), Anne Fine's pretty obvious acceptance of domestic cats being both inside and outside cats is rather annoying for adult me. But since there is also is a Halloween and a Christmas story featuring Tuffy and that most of the books seem to be available on Open Library, I think I will try more Killer Cat Tuffy books (and that I also really need some fun and non issue and painfulness stories right now). And The Diary of a Killer Cat is indeed pretty hilarious, is a fast and giggles inducing read for my inner child.
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I'd be more tempted to read it in paper, but I appreciate your choice of the word 'hilarious' and your note that it's on openlibrary. Thanks!
Cheryl wrote: "I'd be more tempted to read it in paper, but I appreciate your choice of the word 'hilarious' and your note that it's on openlibrary. Thanks!"I am finding Open Library a really nice resource (and the backlit display also often makes reading easier for me).
The Killer Cat's Birthday Bash
My inner child finds this really funny (especially when the Tuffy and his pals finally end up crashing the family's Halloween party), but as an adult I have issues with the positive and accepting portrayal by Anne Fine of outside cats (and dogs) and that I also do not consider Tuffy and the other cats deliberately spooking the horses as being humorous.
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Here are some series and stand-alones that I have found quite humorous over the years:The Princess in Black series by Shannon Hale
The Princess in Black
This is a "transitional" series, for kiddos who have outgrown beginning readers but are not yet ready for middle grade books. This is also a fantasy series with the Princess being an incognito monster hunter and defeater.
Cornbread & Poppy by Matthew Cordell
Cornbread & Poppy
An early reader series, Cornbread and Poppy, two adorable mice, go on a variety of adventures.
The Bagthorpe Saga by Helen Cresswell
Ordinary Jack
This series is for middle grade readers. I read these many years ago (they were published in the 1970s and 80s), but I did find the first one (at least) on Open Library. In the first book, Jack, an ordinary member of a very talented family, wants to find the "string to his bow" as his family call their talents. Some of the scenes in these books were laugh out loud funny. The stories also include funny characters: Grandpa who is selectively deaf; and Father Bagthorpe, who in one of the later books, unwittingly wins unwanted auction items by his inattentiveness; and the incorrigible 4-year-old Daisy, who in one of the books, puts maggots in something (I cant remember what).
Mercy Watson series by Kate DiCamillo
Mercy Watson to the Rescue
This is a transitional series. Mercy Watson is a pig that loves buttered toast. She has a variety of adventures throughout the series.
Treehorn series by Florence Parry Heide
The Shrinking of Treehorn
Treehorn's Treasure
Treehorn's Wish
While these are in small picture book format, small children would not understand the tongue-in-cheek humor of these stories. In the first, the grown-ups don't seem to notice that Treehorn is shrinking, or they reprimand him and tell him to stop shrinking. Wonderfully atmospheric illustrations by Edward Gorey.
Anastasia Krupnick series by Lois Lowry
Anastasia Krupnick
For middle grade readers.
List-making Anastasia and her family have many funny events in their lives. In one of the later books, Anastasia must climb a rope to pass gym class. After practicing at home, she successfully climbs the rope in gym class. When she reaches the top, she yells, "Ta-da!" and spreads open her arms...
Junie B. Jones series by Barbara Park
Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus
This is a transitional series. Junie B. Jones narrates these books, and so the grammar is not always spot on, but is often funny. Junie is a precocious youngster, and her adventures are humorous.
Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson
Phoebe and Her Unicorn
This is a graphic novel series, but is more like a series of four-panel comic strips in book form. I forget how Phoebe meets her unicorn, Marigold Heavenly Nostrils, but their adventures together are quite funny. Together they meet other unicorns and fantasy creatures.
Science Fair by Dave Barry (who has also written humorous books for adults)
Middle grade novel
Toby Harbinger, a regular kid with Discount Warehouse shoes, is determined to win the $5,000 prize—even if he has to go up against terrorists and rich kids to do it. This story was hilarious! I listened to the audiobook and the reader (Phil Gigante) was excellent with all the different voices and sound effects.
The Worst Class Trip Ever by Dave Barry
A group of eighth graders, on a class trip to Washington, D. C., try to save the president from an attack. Hilarious novel.
National Geographic Kids Just Joking: 300 Hilarious Jokes, Tricky Tongue Twisters, and Ridiculous Riddles
Good mixture of jokes and tidbits of animal info; with lots of great photos.
The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry
In this hilarious short story, the 10-year-old kidnapee turns the tables on his captors, while his father, a banker, tells the kidnappers in a note that he will take the boy back if the kidnappers pay him.
Motel of the Mysteries by David Macaulay
A very tongue-in-cheek book about future archaeologists investigating a 20th century motel. For example, they believe that the toilet seat must be some kind of religious neck ornament, and other silly speculations.
I always found Raymond Briggs' Fungus the Bogeyman hilarious, with just about the right amount of bad taste to annoy any strait-laced parents. And there is also the Fungus the Bogeyman Plop-Up Book to take the slime and nose-picking further.
Len wrote: "I always found Raymond Briggs' Fungus the Bogeyman hilarious, with just about the right amount of bad taste to annoy any strait-laced parents. And there is also the [book:Fungus the B..."I think I would have liked this more with a larger font size.
The Best Christmas Pageant EverLaugh out loud funny and also really sweet and poignant, this was a favourite when I was ten and eleven and our teacher read the book aloud to us before the Christmas break in both grade four and grade five (and I still love The Best Christmas Pageant Ever today and read it every December).
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The Best School Year Ever
Found the text too episodic, not nearly as funny as The Best Christmas Pageant Ever and that both my inner child and adult I were often really bored and distracted (that the story feels choppy and in my opinion does not really have a good narrative thread either).
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The Best Halloween Ever
Not even remotely as funny as The Best Christmas Pageant Ever and with no poignancy (that the list of Herdman peccadilloes becomes really boring) and with nothing redemptive either, really loved The Best Christmas Pageant Ever but actually even kind of despise and am bored by both of the sequels.
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Manybooks wrote: "The Best Christmas Pageant EverLaugh out loud funny and also really sweet and poignant, this was a favourite when I was ten and eleven and our teacher read the book aloud to us befo..."
That is a good one! My teacher read that to us too in elementary school. Second grade? We also read Sideways Stories from Wayside School.
Richard Peck writes very funny stories. I especially enjoyed the Grandma Dowdel stories. A Long Way from Chicago.
Now I'm older, I like more subtle humor. I found Lemony Snicket's dry humor in A Series of Unfortunate Events very clever and amusing (The Bad Beginning). I think adults get more out of these books than kids and the humor goes right over the kids' heads.
QNPoohBear wrote: "Manybooks wrote: "The Best Christmas Pageant EverLaugh out loud funny and also really sweet and poignant, this was a favourite when I was ten and eleven and our teacher read the boo..."
I have only watched the Lemony Snicket movies, but I did like those. For me, humour depends on my mood. I usually now prefer subtle humour and satire as well but sometimes the more in my face humour works decently too (as long as this is not overly forced and with the Herdman Family two sequels, the humour is definitely artificial and and as such much less fun than in the first book, than in The Best Christmas Pageant Ever).
Have you seen the movie? Really 1970s and I think it was also filmed in Canada, in Vancouver.
Thanks, all, for the reminders of some of my favorites, such as Wayside School. And I got several leads from your list, Beverly!Dav Pilkey's series Dog Man and Cat Kid Comic Club are very funny, imo, and also have a heck of a lot of heart. And educational bits in the back, too!
I tried to read Just Joking Science: Science-Themed Jokes (part of a series or imprint, I think) and while it's perfect for some, I couldn't finish - see my review.
Beverly wrote: "Here are some series and stand-alones that I have found quite humorous over the years:The Princess in Black series by Shannon Hale
The Princess in Black
This is a "transitional" s..."
Thanks for the list, Beverly, will need to add many to my to-read list and thanks for the reminder to revisit Anastasia Krupnik and also her little brother (have read two of the Anastasia Krupnik novels and loved them both, as they are not just funny but also emotionally relatable for me). Wonder if the series is still being challenged and banned?
Dracula's Daughter
Liked this better the second time around (and changed my rating from two to three stars). Has mild textual humour, fun illustrations (and I like how Dracula is kept at bay by a rowan tree and not a crucifix). Still think that the British setting is a bit unreasonable since Dracula resides in Romania (so why would his half vampire daughter have been adopted by a quintessential UK family) and that for a person who is half vampire and half human, Angela is visually depicted a bit too vampire-like.
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Billy's Beetle
A funny and delightful romp for younger children, but adult I finds the idea of capturing and keeping a beetle in a matchbox rather cruel.
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You Must Be Skidding!
Fun and informative, and I like the humorous and lighthearted tone (even though the information is also strictly non fiction). Do not like that there is no bibliography, wanted jokes about the East German Trabant car and that the black and white illustrations and black and white photographs makes everything look a bit washed out (shelved as non fiction juvenile humour on Open Library, but humour is a side product and not the main point for me, but I do like Tony Davis' lighthearted narration)
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The Wolf Who Cried Boy!
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Both words and images for The Wolf Who Cried Boy!, in my opinion, they do work really nicely together, and yes, with very much verbal and illustrative humour manage to show both sides and equally so showcasing the many similarities between the young boy and the wolf cub, with James O'Neill's chattily funny style (and which his text often also being specifically directed right towards the reader or listener) brilliantly matched and mirrored by Russell Ayto's sharp, straight lined and laughter filled illustrations. Lots of fun, warmly recommended and with The Wolf Who Cried Boy! presenting a totally lovely and smiles inducing combination of words and pictures which both totally inverts The Boy Who Cried Wolf and as such also makes both boy and wolf not into enemies but shows their budding and emerging friendship (even if the villagers and the wolf pack do not agree or at least do not yet agree regarding the latter).
The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse
In Marc Barnett’s quirky The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse, being gobbled up alive and whole by a gluttonous wolf turns out not to be the doom and gloom scenario a diminutive mouse fears, as indeed both the mouse and the duck (who is already a resident of the wolf’s insides) actually do have a pretty comfortable and easy existence inside of the wolf’s belly. That is, until they both feast and frolic a bit too rambunctiously and the wolf’s resultant major stomach pains and groans not only incapacitate him but also attract the unwelcome attention of a hunter. A fun and engaging original pourquoi type of tale of why wolves supposedly have to howl at the moon every night, and where delightfully, it is also not the wolf but the hunter who appears and acts as the main villain, I most definitely have very much enjoyed the combination of Marc Barnett’s verbally fun and at times delightfully ironic presented narrative and Jon Klassen’s accompanying artwork.
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Wolfie's Secret
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With her absolutely and totally delightful 2017 picture book Wolfie's Secret (and mostly textually original although of course very very loosely based on folktales and in particular on ones like The Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood), Nicola Senior's combination of words and images show main protagonist Wolfie as hilariously and also wonderfully NOT being the typical, not being the all encompassingly evilly depraved big bad wolf of culture and lore (which indeed totally makes both my inner child and equally adult me majorly smile as I have never either liked or even managed to appreciate these types of stories).
A Coyote Solstice Tale
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Thomas King's A Coyote Solstice Tale is a fun romp through what can only be described as some of the not so magical and not so appealing aspects of the holiday season (crowded malls, consumerism run rampant and that like the little girl who has disguised herself as a reindeer points out, no one wants to share, everyone is on edge and out to spend, spend, spend, waiting in line like cattle, fighting with those ahead of them or behind them and so on and so on). Although often wickedly humorous, I actually do tend to find the presented narrative also a bit depressing, but really, that is not even such a bad thing, as the over-commercialism of the solstice (the holiday season, whether one celebrates Christmas, Hanukkah, whatever) is a real and very present issue, one that needs to be considered, and one that definitely should be approached with a satiric and critical eye (although I do wish that the book would end with a fun Solstice party for everyone). As to Gary Clement's illustrations, while they are bright and lively, they are also much too cartoon like for my tastes (and Coyote really does seem to look much more like a fox than an actual coyote, which personally, I find a bit off-putting and visually distracting).
A Coyote Columbus Story
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In Thomas King's A Coyote Columbus Story, it is the both positive and negative, the both clever and sometimes massively naive, but also always a bit self-centred trickster figure Coyote who is shown by King to have created the world. And she (and yes, not he) makes both the good (like rainbows, flowers and clouds) and also the not so good (like prune juice, TV commercials, and of course Christopher Columbus himself, and oh my goodness, do I ever find it laugh out loud hilarious and also the total truth to have Thomas King in A Coyote Columbus Story compare that enslaver, that vile parasite Christopher Columbus to a disgusting tasting laxative liquid like prune juice).
Now with regard to William Kent Monkman’s accompanying illustrations for A Coyote Columbus Tale, Monkman's brightly garish visuals bring Thomas King's words gloriously and wonderfully to life (and are also visually hilarious and as satirical as King's text).
QNPoohBear wrote: "Manybooks wrote: "The Best Christmas Pageant EverLaugh out loud funny and also really sweet and poignant, this was a favourite when I was ten and eleven and our teacher read the boo..."
I also loved Richard Peck's Grandma Dowdle stories. She was a pistol! Years ago, I read parts of one of the books to my grandmother, and she laughed so hard, she could hardly breathe.
I liked the first few books of the Series of Unfortunate Events, but as the series dragged on, it became (for me) too much of the same thing. And I did not like the ending of the final book at all.
After the Ukrainian topic we had this summer, with all of the heavy duty and often devastating war etc. themes and contents many of the books I read had (and which I also appreciated), I do think we all can do with a bit of a break. And thus, for October, November and December 2025, the topic for the Fiction Club will be humour.
I will leave the topic very wide open (so yes, both fiction and non fiction, and indeed, humour also includes folklore such as trickster tales and the like), with my only suggestion being that humour should probably be prominently featured in any book you are considering for this topic and not just be something secondary. And of course, for October and for December, humorous Halloween and Christmas stories would totally fit the topic.
Happy reading!!