Seriously Silly

Once upon a time there were seven aliens, some giant knickers and a beastly bride - but did they all live happily ever after? Open up to find out what happens next in these brain-ticklingly brilliant Seriously Silly Stories! They're scarily silly! Includes the Smarties Award-winning Snow White and the Seven Aliens, The Emperor's Underwear and Billy Beast.

In this version of the classic fairy tale "Rapunzel," the daughter of two hairdressers is locked in a tower by the Bad Hair Witch.

Includes a full range of jokes about academic subjects, homework and teachers. Amusing cartoons accompany the jokes

Are you serious about being silly? Then switch your brain into wacky mode and dive into this loony collection of games and activities, each with a totally nutty twist! If you're as mad as a hatter and as barmy as a box of frogs - this is the book for you!

Once upon a time there was a football-crazy boy, a fun-free town and a girl who got lost in the forest - but did they all live happily ever after? Open up to find out what happens next in these brain-ticklingly brilliant Seriously Silly Stories! They're scarily silly! Includes Cinderboy, The Fried Piper of Hamstring (Shortlisted for the Notts Children's Book Award), Ghostyshocks and the Three Scares (Children's Book Award Pick of the Year).

Can serious poetry be funny? Chaucer and Shakespeare would say yes, and so do the authors of these 187 poems that address timeless concerns but that also include comic elements. Beginning with the Beats and the New York School and continuing with both marquee-name poets and newcomers, Seriously Funny ranges from poems that are capsized by their own tomfoolery to those that glow with quiet wit to ones in which a laugh erupts in the midst of terrible darkness. Most of the selections were made in the editors' battered compact car, otherwise known as the Seriously Funny Mobile Unit. During the two years in which Barbara Hamby and David Kirby made their choices, they'd set out with a couple of boxes of books in the back seat, and whoever wasn't driving read to the other. When they found that a poem made both of them think but laugh as well, they earmarked it. Readers will find a true generosity in these poems, an eagerness to share ideas and emotions and also to entertain. The singer Ali Farka Tour said that honey is never good when it's only in one mouth, and the editors of Seriously Funny hope its readers find much to share with others.

Through this silly story one will learn about the impact of human actives on our water and soil. One can also learn some basic water terms like evaporation and precipitation. An children can begin to develop a thought process on things that they might be able to do to protect our water and improve our earths soils.

Once upon a time there was a silly-billy who carried a cow, a Bad Hair Witch and three pesky pigs - but did they all live happily ever after? Open up to find out what happens next in these brain-ticklingly brilliant Seriously Silly Stories! They're scarily silly! Includes Daft Jack and the Bean Stack (shortlisted for the Sheffield Children's Book Award), Shampoozel (Children's Book Award Pick of the Year) and Eco-Wolf and the Three Pigs (shortlisted for Blue Peter Book Awards).

In this humorous version of "Beauty and the Beast," Billy Beast wonders if the clean and proper Beauty will ever be the beast of his dreams.

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