The Best Funny Kids Books

By Will Mabbitt

If the only thing you can draw is a worm, then you make a book about . . . worms. This book even had my teenagers cracking up. If you only read one funny kids book from this list, make it this one.

By Bob Shea

Chez Bob looks like a nice restaurant for birds, until you realize that the restaurant is on an alligator's nose. Seems like a good plan, but there's a twist that Bob doesn't see coming.

By Adam Rex

Increase the funny factor for this one by reading it all in your best Darth Vader voice. This one never fails to induce laughter.

By Ziggy Hanaor

Alexander loves living in his mother's cozy pouch and he has no intention of leaving even if everyone else thinks it's time for him to grow up and move out. But Mom has a very clever plan to help Alexander embrace change.

So funny and I love the illustrations in this one!

By David Ezra Stein

Papa just wants to read little chicken a bedtime story, but whether it's Little Red Riding Hood or Hansel and Gretel, little chicken can't help interrupting with a plan to save the story's characters. Adorable and hilarious - a favorite bedtime story book at our house.

By Jon Klassen

We appreciate a little dark humor at our house and nobody does dark humor for kids better than Jon Klassen. There are three books in the Hat Trilogy and if you like this one, you'll want to read them all.

By Jon Stone | Illustrated by Michael Smollin

A classic that will never not be funny because it's lovable, furry old Grover.

By Kate Beaton

We all know that new babies take a lot of time and energy, which only makes this snarky book about a tyrannical King Baby that much funnier.

By James Thurber

This is one of my most favorite funny books on this list! I cannot read it without laughing. It's the tale of a little princess who wants the moon and though it takes some figuring out, she manages to get it.

By B.J. Novak

There's not one picture in this book, but there's also not a kid in the world who'll mind when they realize just how hilarious the book is. This is a perfect book to read-aloud!

By Judi Barrett | Illustrated by Ronald Barrett

My parents bought this for my kids for Christmas one year and when they started reading it aloud, everyone was laughing so hard we were all crying. It's the illustrations in this one that really get the giggles going.

By Elsie Parsley

This is an excellent book about jealousy, but it's also laugh out loud funny. Everybody loves Leopold the giraffe until a kid shows up with a giraffe shaped balloon that steals his spotlight.

By Oliver Jeffers

Floyd's kite is stuck in a tree, but the process of getting it out only leads to more things getting stuck. Every page will have little listeners giggling.

By Mac Barnett and Kevin Cornell

A fun interactive story that has readers trying to count the monkeys on the page, but it's not as easy as you think it will be.

By Jonathan Emmett | Illustrated by Poly Bernatene

When a pig and a princess are accidentally switched at birth, hilariousness ensues. This book is so clever and funny - one of my all time favorites!

By Mo Willems

A villainous fox is trying to trick a sweet duck into becoming the last ingredient in his stew, but this book has a twist you won't see coming. Nobody writes a funny book for kids better than Mo Willems.

By Peter Bentley | Illustrated by Mei Matsuoka

Written in rhyme, this hilariously clever book follows Lou Pine, a wolf with a cunning plan to sneak up on a flock of sheep that may or may not be a whole lot smarter than him.

By Mo Willems | Illustrated by Charise Mericle Harper

Yellow Bird has a button that's good for nothing. But when Red Bird and Blue Bird press the button they are pretty sure it's good for something because it makes them happy to press it. My kids have requested this book no less than a hundred times since I brought it home - so funny!

By Chris Haughton

Four friends creeping through the woods with a plan to catch a bird. You can't help but laugh as their plans are foiled again and again.

By Tara Lazar | Illustrated by Ross MacDonald

6 thinks 7 is after him, and everyone knows that 7 ate 9. Private I is on the case because something isn't adding up. A truly funny kids book!

By Dashka Slater | Illustrated by Sydney Hanson

Oh, you are going to fall in love with sweet, funny little Escargot. My kids always beg me to read this one with my terrible French accent.

By Aaron Reynolds | Illustrated by Sara Varon

Squid is certain he would make the best ever president and he's got some pretty funny reasons to back up his arguments.

By Cirocco Dunlap | Illustrated by Olivier Tallec

The mouse in this book just wants a peaceful, orderly story, but things like Word-Eating Flying Whales are making that very hard. So funny!

By Bob Shea

Spoiler: This book is not scary. But, it is very funny and you'll love the melodramatic ghost narrator.

By Meg McLaren

Film noir, but make the detective a Pigeon named Murray MacMurray.

By Jason Carter Eaton | Illustrated by Mark Fearing

When a little boy's mom tells him that he needs to clean his room or he'll get pests, he imagines mice or crickets, which he doesn't mind a bit. Boy is he surprised when Barbarians show up instead.

By Ryan T. Higgins

It's a little T. Rex's first day of school but she's having a hard time making friends because she wants to eat them. Guaranteed giggles!

By Corey R. Tabor

A sweet, funny book about a little snail determined to cross the road for a taste of a big, plump cabbage. We love this one!

By Lauren Stohler

A cat and a pug having a poetry showdown? Yes, it's as funny as it sounds!

By Peter Stein

Bird and Cat find a tree they like, but Mr. Fish is already living there and he does NOT want to share.

By Jory John | Illustrated by Erin Kraan

Jeff the bear has a weird feeling that he has forgotten something. And, all the animals in the forest are giving him weird looks. Could it be the underwear he's wearing over his fur . . . maybe?

By Helen Yoon

Clearly I have a thing for wolves in disguise because there are quite a few on this book list. This one is particularly funny!

By Heidi McKinnon

More satisfying dark humor! A little creature is looking for a new friend. Why? Well, because he ate his old one.

By Sandra Fay

Beverly, Trevor, Neville, and Kevin are a Mongolian Death Worm family and they just want you to know that despite their deadly reputation, they really just want to be friends.

By Chris Van Dusen

Chris Van Dusen has the magic touch and I adore every book he's written. In this one, a tiny king has a very large ego and when a sorceress casts a spell on him, his head grows to match it.

By Kenn Nesbitt | Illustrated by Troy Cummings

More Bears! More Bears! More Bears! That's really all you need to know about this one. You'll love it!

By Ross Burach

A funny story about a giraffe who the other animals keep mistaking for a chair. Will he be courageous enough to stand up for himself?

By Lucy Ruth Cummins

A very hungry lion is hanging out with some animal friends, but they keep disappearing. All signs point to the hungry lion . . . but there may be more to the story.

By Avery Monsen | Illustrated by Abby Hanlon

We recently added this one to our collection of funny kids books at home and we can't get enough of it. It's funny every single time Chester gets his rhymes wrong.

By Adam Rex

It starts with gum stuck in hair, but before this story ends, the problem gets bigger and bigger.

By Mac Barnett | Illustrated by Chris Van Dusen

President Taft really did get stuck in the bath and this book about the historical mishap is so funny!

By Audrey Wood | Illustrated by Don Wood

This is a funny story about a king who refuses to get out of the bathtub no matter what the members of his court come up with to coax him out.

By Alexis Deacon | Illustrated by Viviane Schwarz

I was a philosophy major in college, so I particularly appreciate the Plato humor here. Ergo, a little chick, wakes up in her egg and thinks that she is the whole world.

By Ryan T. Higgins

Norman is a porcupine and his best friend is a tree named Mildred. But when Norman becomes jealous of Mildred's friendship with a new tree, he makes a mistake that is really hard to own up to. This is extra funny because the tree is very NOT anthropomorphized, so mostly Norman is just talking to himself.

By Chris Harris | Illustrated by Dan Santat

You've never read an alphabet book this funny! Notice that even the cover image is a joke (the alphabet is going to Times New Roman School). Ha!

By Raj Haldar | Illustrated by Chris Carpenter

A witty book of confusing and funny homonyms and homophones. Very fun to read!

By Julie Falatko | Illustrated by Tim Miller

Snappsy just wanted to have a normal day, but the story narrator wants to spice things up! Snappsy doesn't love the turn his story takes, but you will!

By Nicola Winstanley | Illustrated by John Martz

If you've ever met a cat, then you know that these five steps are going to be anything but easy. At least they're funny!

By Michael Buckley

Lenny the Lobster is invited to a fancy dinner party, but when he shows up, he realizes that he's not actually a guest, but the meal.

By Bob Shea | Illustrated by Zachariah OHora

The subtitle on this one says it all: It's not the crime, it's the cover-up. Ha!