The Stupids Have a Ball
10 best books like The Stupids Have a Ball (Harry Allard): Life is Funny, It's So Amazing!: A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families, Baaa, Heather Has Two Mommies, Crazy Lady!, Halloween ABC, You Hear Me?: Poems and Writing by Teenage Boys, The Facts Speak for Themselves, Deal with It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life as a gURL, I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book
| Author | E.R. Frank |
| ISBN | 0142300837 |
From the outside, they're simply a group of urban teenagers. But from the inside, they're some of the most complex people you'll ever meet. There's Eric, fiercely protective of his brother Mickey-but he has a secret that holds together his past and future. Sonia, struggling to live the life of a good...
| Author | Robie H. Harris |
| ISBN | 0763613215 |
It's So Amazing! was created in response to repeated requests from parents, teachers, librarians, and health professionals for an up-to-date book about sex and sexuality for children who were still too young for It's Perfectly Normal. Once again, the Bird and Bee are up to their antics, but this time...
| Author | David Macaulay |
| ISBN | 0395395887 |
where humans have gone extinct, sheep begin to take our places.
Sadly, for them, they adopt all our nasty habits - even the really DIRTY stuff like banking and politics!
(How this is all accomplished without opposable thumbs is anyone's guess . . .)
As you might imagine,...
| Author | Lesléa Newman |
| ISBN | 1555835430 |
Originally self-published in 1989, Heather Has Two Mommies became the first title in Alyson's newly formed Alyson Wonderland imprint in 1990. The simple and straightforward story of a little girl named Heather and her two lesbian mothers was created by Newman and illustrator Diana Souza because...
| Author | Jane Leslie Conly |
| ISBN | 0064405710 |
I am reading books from the ALA’s most challenged list. I checked off all the books I have already read (although I plan to go back and read some) and now I am working through the part of the list I am interested in reading. I went through the list in my school library and grabbed this one. I finished it this...
I usually do reviews from the Epinions website, but since everyone in the Banned Books Club were discussing this book, I just had to review this book! “Halloween ABC” is an ABC book by Eve Merriam along with illustrations by Lane Smith and this book is about various symbols and creatures of Halloween...
Teenage boys speak out—without the filter of adult sensibility—in a compelling collection of poetry and prose.
In a powerful collection of more than seventy uncensored poems and essays, more than fifty teenage boys from across the country explore their many-layered concerns: identity,...
| Author | Brock Cole |
| ISBN | 1932425713 |
How to describe Brock Cole's brilliant new young-adult novel, "The Facts Speak for Themselves?" Here's how the author himself did it in a recent magazine interview: "The Facts [Speak for Themselves?"] starts with a murder and the witness to the murder is a 13-year-old girl. In the initial interrogations,...
| Author | Esther Drill |
| ISBN | 0671041576 |
Deal With It! offers a whole new approach for dealing with your life as a girl. It's a resource to help you learn about, laugh about, and figure out the stuff you go through on your way through life. It won't tell you what to do, because you'll need to decide that for yourself. But whether you're wondering...
| Author | Iona Opie |
| ISBN | 0763611999 |
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me."
That's what children chant when they are being teased; it's what their parents chanted, and their grandparents and their great grandparents before them. Collected in this invaluable book are the wit and wisdom of generations...
Recommended to me by a family member who is a 4th grade teacher. This book is hilarious! I can see it from others point of view on here that we wouldn't want a child talking anyone into eating their poo... but if you want to take this children's book to that depth, then consider another view. A lesson in gullibility....
| Author | Henk Schiffmacher |
| ISBN | 3822841072 |
An exploration of tattoos past and present Whether you’re thinking of getting a tattoo or just want to see to what lengths others have gone in decorating their bodies, this is the book to check out. This special 25th anniversary edition of Tattoos explores the history of the art worldwide via designs...
| Author | Kathy Hoopmann |
| ISBN | 1785921827 |
Life as a bird can be stressful! From worrying about airplanes, windows, and getting enough worms to eat, it is clear that birds can be anxious beings. Through a light-touch, quizzical depiction of bird behaviour, All Birds Have Anxiety uses colourful images and astute explanations to explore with...
| Author | Linda de Haan |
| ISBN | 1582460612 |
Once there lived a lovelorn prince whose mother decreed that he must marry by the end of the summer. So began the search to find the prince's perfect match and lo and behold... his name was Lee. You are cordially invited to join the merriest, most unexpected wedding of the year. King & King is a contemporary...
| Author | Crockett Johnson |
| ISBN | 0060229861 |
Harolds Trip to the Sky (Harold #3), Crockett Johnson pseudonym for David Johnson Leisk
Harold is back with his purple crayon, and this time the Earth isn't big enough for him. Harold is off to the sky, or more specifically, to Mars. His latest adventure starts in the desert, but it doesn't take him...
| Author | Nicholas Allan |
| ISBN | 0375830308 |
Never before have the facts of life been presented in such an accessible—or novel—way. Our hero is Willy, a little sperm who lives inside Mr. Browne with 300 million friends. Every day Willy practices for the Great Swimming Race. And when the day arrives, he swims faster than his 300 million friends...
George and Martha Tons of Fun
| Author | James Marshall |
| ISBN | 0395426464 |
How is it possible that with each George and Martha book, their friendship just becomes more and more pure? I mean, as the vignettes continue (over a span of 7 books!), there are certainly more funny and trickster-like scenes which I suppose could be construed as mean-spirited. But honestly? ...
| Author | Frances Minters |
| ISBN | 0140561269 |
A lively new twist on an old familiar fairy tale
Readers young and old will enjoy this fresh look at the age-old tale in which an urban-dwelling Cinder-Elly used the help of a trash can, a copy machine, and even a glass sneaker to find her Prince Charming. With a jazzily rhthmic, rhyming text and...
| Author | Jez Alborough |
| ISBN | 1844284794 |
My friend bear is story about Eddy and a bear who feel lonely and sad as they don’t have any friends that they can talk to and spend time with. They talk to their teddies but unfortunately the teddies don’t talk back so they get very lonely. Eddy sees that the bear is upset because he does not have any friends...
| Author | Sue Denim |
| ISBN | 0590477099 |
This is one of my all-time favorite books from my childhood! I absolutely love the dumb bunnies! I think they are hilarious!
But for some, this book might be too dumb, but if you like dumb, silly, slapstick humor and irony then you will get a kick out of this book.
The dumb bunnies uses a...
