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This
guide of teacher-recommended Web sites is a great way to teach your
students more about the books offered on Trumpet each month.
Web
Guide on HUMOR
Who said school
has to be so serious? In fact, there's nothing like shared laughter
to bring a group of new students together! And this month Trumpet
is featuring a variety of books that are silly, playful and just
downright funny.
Squids Will Be Squids
Frindle
The Giggler Treatment
Skinnybones
The Diary of Melanie Martin
Squids Will Be Squids, the newest offering from the creators
of The Stinky Cheese Man, is a parody of fables filled with
hilarious non-sequitors and outrageously silly morals. Frindle
is the riotous story of a boy who invents a word to the dismay of
his teachers and watches it become a nationwide fad. Or check out
The Giggler Treatment, by acclaimed novelist Roddy Doyle, which
uses age-old gags and pratfalls in a fresh and delightful story about
naughty grown-ups getting what they deserve. And then there's the
Skinnybones, the laugh-out loud tale about the misadventures of a
blabbermouth. Finally, anyone who's ever been on a family vacation
will appreciate the wise-cracking humor of The Diary of Melanie
Martin.
For more laughter and fun be sure to visit these Web sites below!
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All About Humor
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002267F/
Meet funny people, view a humor timeline, and learn more about the art, history, and psychology of humor at this Thinkquest, kid-created site.
Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith bring you...
http://www.chucklebait.com/
All about their books, themselves, and "Ask Beefsnackstick," cosmic wisdom from a meat-by-product...
The Wacky World of Words
http://www.members.home.net/teachwell/
Frindle lovers will appreciate these anagrams, oxymorons, similes, rhyming buddies, and much more. Definitions and lists that your students can contribute to!
School is Funny!
http://www.schoolisfunny.com/
Laugh out loud at this genuinely hilarious site! "No Way" stories about school legends and myths, "Ask Phyllis the Lunch Lady," and more giggles galore!
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