Scholastic research shows that humor in books is the top characteristic kids look for when making their reading selections. According to the Scholastic Kids & Family Reading Report, more than 50 ...

Four children’s book authors walk into a library and… discuss the challenges, joys, and mechanisms of writing humor for kids. The event, part of the New York Public Library’s ongoing Children’s ...

I am concerned about how my book club scheduled for next Thursday at the time of this writing is going to go. Given that I’ve been telling people what to read for better than a decade in these pages, ...

You may never feel the urge to read "The Facetiae of Poggio," often referred to as the first joke book. But if you ever did need to peruse this volume, originally printed in 1451, you'd head to the ...

Author Gloria Squitiro chatted about her humor fiction book “C’mon Funk Move Your Ass: How a Demure Little Wife Made Her Husband a Big City Mayor.” Author Gloria Squitiro chatted about her humor book ...

THE DO-GOODERS by Alfred Grossman. 229 pages. Doubleday. $4.95. Nowhere is the literature of the put-on so prevalent as in the area of grey humor, the pale imitation of black humor. Kookiness serves ...

It’s the kind of warning every overprotective mother in these parts is likely to give her children: Leave the sunny, safe environs of Boulder for the big city and you’re likely to discover a world of ...