The Randon House book of humor for children
Humor for Children
selected by Pamela Pollack ; illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky
- New York Random House 1988
- 310 p.
Tales of a fourth grade nothing / by Judy Blume -- Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's magic / by Betty MacDonald -- Understood Betsy / by Dorothy Canfield Fisher -- Ghosts I have been / by Richard Peck -- The stories Julian tells / by Ann Cameron -- The midnight fox / by Betsy Byars -- Life among the savages / by Shirley Jackson -- The lumber-room / by Saki -- The elephant's child / by Rudyard Kipling -- The moth and the star / by James Thurber -- In one era and out the other / by Sam Levenson -- Beezus and Ramona / by Beverly Cleary -- The witches / by Roald Dahl -- The Phantom tollbooth / by Norton Juster -- The harps of heaven / by Natalie Babbitt -- The best Christmas pageant ever / by Barbara Robinson -- Half magic / by Edward Eager -- McBroom's almanac / by Sid Fleischman -- Prodigy street / by Bob and Ray -- Homer price / by Robert McCloskey -- The story of the treasure seekers / by E. Nesbit -- The fools of Chelm and the stupid carp / by Isaac Bashevis Singer -- The sword and the stone / by T.H. White -- Soup / by Robert Newton Peck -- Cheaper by the dozen / by Frank B. Gilbreth and Ernestine G. Carey -- Harriet the spy / by Louise Fitzhugh -- Lake Wobegon days / by Garrison Keillor -- Freaky Friday / by Mary Rodgers -- How to hang up the telephone / by Della Ephron -- No beasts! no children! / by Beverly Keller -- The skunk ladder / by Patrick F. McManus -- Fifteen minutes / by Larry Callen -- Tom Sawyer / by Mark Twain -- How to eat fried worms / by Thomas Rockwell.
A humor collection for middle graders composed of thirty-four prose selections--short stories and "chunks" from novels.
7 - 8 years
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Wit and humor--Juvenile
Humorous stories--Juvenile
Humorous stories
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Tales of a fourth grade nothing / by Judy Blume -- Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's magic / by Betty MacDonald -- Understood Betsy / by Dorothy Canfield Fisher -- Ghosts I have been / by Richard Peck -- The stories Julian tells / by Ann Cameron -- The midnight fox / by Betsy Byars -- Life among the savages / by Shirley Jackson -- The lumber-room / by Saki -- The elephant's child / by Rudyard Kipling -- The moth and the star / by James Thurber -- In one era and out the other / by Sam Levenson -- Beezus and Ramona / by Beverly Cleary -- The witches / by Roald Dahl -- The Phantom tollbooth / by Norton Juster -- The harps of heaven / by Natalie Babbitt -- The best Christmas pageant ever / by Barbara Robinson -- Half magic / by Edward Eager -- McBroom's almanac / by Sid Fleischman -- Prodigy street / by Bob and Ray -- Homer price / by Robert McCloskey -- The story of the treasure seekers / by E. Nesbit -- The fools of Chelm and the stupid carp / by Isaac Bashevis Singer -- The sword and the stone / by T.H. White -- Soup / by Robert Newton Peck -- Cheaper by the dozen / by Frank B. Gilbreth and Ernestine G. Carey -- Harriet the spy / by Louise Fitzhugh -- Lake Wobegon days / by Garrison Keillor -- Freaky Friday / by Mary Rodgers -- How to hang up the telephone / by Della Ephron -- No beasts! no children! / by Beverly Keller -- The skunk ladder / by Patrick F. McManus -- Fifteen minutes / by Larry Callen -- Tom Sawyer / by Mark Twain -- How to eat fried worms / by Thomas Rockwell.
A humor collection for middle graders composed of thirty-four prose selections--short stories and "chunks" from novels.
7 - 8 years
0394880498
0394980492
Wit and humor--Juvenile
Humorous stories--Juvenile
Humorous stories
j813 Ran 28