Another great adventure into history with more nasty guys and some super new good guys and gals to help out our night guard Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) at the museum. This time it is the Smithsonian Institute, where all our old heroes have been sent for storage while their old home is updated for computer [...]

During May all sort of comedians have been touring New Zealand for the NZ International Comedy Festival.
In our Kids Catalog Web you can find out about some of our most famous comedians. Check them out in the NZ Famous People section.
If you love making your friends and family laugh – there’s also a whole section [...]

I found a really, really cool looking book while I was putting books away today. It’s called Why eating bogeys is good for you. In my last post, I talked about jokes being funny when they have a punch line that takes your brain by surprise. Another way that jokes can be funny is when [...]

Did you know that a really, really clever person in Britain decided to study jokes? He found out that our brain has a funnybone!! He used a special scanner, called an NMI scanner, to measure brain activity. While he was scanning their brain he read them some unfunny sentences. Then he read them some jokes. When people listened to a [...]

You can simpsonize yourself on the Simpsons Movie website.
When you’ve got your looks just right you can save the avatar and you can email it to your friends!
 

Paul Jennings’ trickiest stories is a special collection of Paul’s trickiest stories with unexpected twists and turns: a book that you won’t be able to resist! Here’s a sample:
 
It was upside down and he was carefully coating it with red. His favourite colour. ‘Gavin,’ I yelled. ‘It’s me.’ He kept on painting. He couldn’t see me. [...]

I have recently been addicted to the Boobela and Worm series by Joe Friedman because it really draws you in with such heart warming and funny stories. It’s about a friendship between two very opposite characters, one large and one small. The colourful and wonderful illustrations also add to the reading enjoyment. If you’d like to have [...]

From the It’s True series comes You Can Make Your Own Jokes. It’s a wacky book that gives you tips on how to free the knock knocker or joker in you. It will cure you of making BAD jokes and punchlines that aren’t really punchy. It’s sort of like an instruction manual that will help [...]