Are you a super David Walliams fan looking for the next laugh-out-loud read with quirky characters and outrageous plot? Here are our top eight funny series that you won't want to miss out on!
Are you a super David Walliams fan looking for the next laugh-out-loud read with quirky characters and outrageous plot? Here are our top eight funny series that you won't want to miss out on!
Fizzing with magic, danger, friendship and art, this exciting, funny, middle-grade series is a fantasy adventure perfect for children 8+ from superstar illustrator and author Rob Biddulph. The books follow a fun main character called Peanut Jones, who one day finds a unique pencil turbo-charged with special powers and is pulled into a world packed with more colour, creativity, excitement and danger than she could ever have imagined. Throughout the books, she uses her newfound powers to find her father, retrieve missing works of art and save the magical Illustrated City.
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Waterstone's Children's Book Prize winner and perfect for fans of David Baddiel and David Walliams, this brilliantly funny middle grade series is the perfect read for children that love to laugh ages 8+! The series starts with the trope of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Just when eleven-year-old Luke goes for a wee, his undeserving, geeky older brother meets aliens and gains SUPERPOWERS! Just his luck: never there when the good stuff happens. But Luke has adventures that await too, and they are NOT for the faint-hearted! He will have to: - rescue his kidnapped brother - fight off evil aliens dressed up as gym teachers - meet his evil twin, who happens to be a supervillain - deal with a time-travel machine - and so much more!
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This is the series for all children whose parents and teachers JUST. WON'T. LISTEN. In each of these totally absurd and utterly hilarious books for ages 7+, children witness what can only be described as EXTRAORDINARY events that absolutely MUST be taken seriously. Only they don't...or the grown ups can't find out... and that leads to quite a lot of chaos, mess and laughing out loud! Teachers get taken over by aliens. Dinner ladies are demons. Werewolf-infested tents. Yetis on playgrounds. Beasts hiding in basements. ABORT MISSION!!! Full of danger, adventure and PERIL, these books are also laugh-out-loud and snot-inducingly funny reads with a fast-paced writing style that will have children WHIZZING through them, one by one.
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We love this middle grade series for readers aged 8+, and think it's the perfect step up to the next reading level for fans of the Baby Aliens series and other funny chapter books series. All Humza Khan wants is to be a rapper. In fact, he is the greatest eleven-year-old rapper Eggington has ever known. But his music is at stake...by some aunties TAKING OVER SCHOOL! This is just the beginning of some truly the-world-could-come-to-an-end adventures. Throughout the series, Humza will have to go through all sorts of trials and tribulations to SAVE THE WORLD, from time-travelling teachers to radioactive samosas that have been contaminated by rocks from outer space.
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If you're on the hunt for books for readers aged 7+ that make you roll on the floor laughing, Alex Sparrow is the most HILARIOUS secret agent villain-busting super spy you could turn to! Alex Sparrow has been working to become an undercover agent since he was four. He can always tell if a grown-up is lying, and his best friend and collaborator, Jess, can communicate with animals. Together they solve incredible mysteries, like why their class isn't making fart jokes anymore, why the local squirrels have turned mean and why Zumba dancers are curiously drawn to the Christmas lights...
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This series has collected review upon review on Toppsta, and for good reason: it's the absolutely hilarious collection of illustrated chapter books for readers aged 6+ about a family of hyenas living among humans! The Bolds are just like any other family: they live in a house (in Teddington), they have jobs (like writing Christmas cracker jokes) and they love to have a bit of a giggle. One slight difference: they are hyenas. In each book, the family is either getting in big trouble, going on a wild adventure, or getting surprise visits.
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Planet Omar is a fantastic illustrated series for readers 7+. Omar is a boy with a huge imagination, which sometimes lands him in trouble… Zanib Mian’s hilarious text and Nasaya Mafaridik's glorious cartoon-style illustrations make the Planet Omar series perfect for fans of Tom Gates and Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Zanib Mian’s books manage to deal with important issues such as bullying and prejudice in a fun and sensitive way, with diary entries that will make you laugh out loud, featuring Muslim traditions, a lot of silliness, and a very relatable family.
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This is such a fun fully illustrated series for naughty readers aged 7+, all about a special school where it's ALWAYS good to be bad. The series follows werewolf Bram’s first day at Villains Academy, the most prestigious villain school in the ENTIRE land. He really doesn’t feel like a villain at all, but soon enough he makes some truly wonderful friends that will stick by his side throughout the school years and share many adventures together: Mona the elf-witch, Bryan the lion, Shelia the ghost and Tony the skeleton.
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