Books for Kids - Silly Stories

Check out this list generated by our Youth Services Librarians for the Scotch Plains Public Library's annual summer reading challenge.

Updated May 4, 2023
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This book just ate my dog!
Byrne, Richard
Paper Book
In this wonderfully inventive book, Bella is taking her dog for a stroll across the page but halfway across, he disappears! Unable to quite believe what's just happened Bella watches, transfixed, with changing emotions of surprise, indignation, moments of renewed hope (as the authorities arrive to...
Dog on a frog?
Gray, Kes
Paper Book
Dory Fantasmagory
Hanlon, Abby
Paper Book
A fun, fabulous and very funny new series perfect for fans of My Naughty Little Sister.
Digby O'Day in the fast lane
Hughes, Shirley
Paper Book
Introducing Dixie O'Day and also, of course, his friend Percy! This dashing duo are always getting into adventures - here they enter the All-Day Car Race little knowing what is ahead of them! Dixie and Percy run into all sorts of peril, as does their arch enemy, Lou Ella. But who will win, and will...
Night of the living ted
Hutchison, Barry
Paper Book
When Lisa Marie and her step-brother Vernon pop into town to get their dad a birthday present, they discover the Create-a-Ted shop is offering free Halloween bears! Making two grisly bears for themselves and choosing an Elvis bear named Bearvis for Dad, they head home. That night the shopkeeper...
Mistakes were made
Pastis, Stephan.
Paper Book
Meet Timmy Failure, founder of the 'best' detective agency in town - Total Failure, Inc. Timmy may only be 11, but with the help of his polar bear, Total, he already has plans for world domination. Plans that will make his mother rich and unpaid bills a thing of the past. And plans that will defeat...

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