Funny Girl: Funniest. Stories. Ever.

 

Funny Girl is a collection of uproarious stories, rollicking comics, rib-tickling wit, and more, from 25 of today’s funniest female writers for kids.

What could be funnier than family? Read stories about Ursula Brown’s grandmother driving her on a road trip to disaster, Lisa Brown’s little brother getting a Tic-Tac stuck up his nose, and Carmen Agra Deedy’s mom setting the bathtub on fire.

What could be funnier than friends? Pretty much nothing, as Rita Williams-Garcia shows two besties hatching a bird-brained scheme to get on to a TV talk show, and Deborah Underwood introduces a dynamic dog-and-cat duo teaming up on a pet advice column.

What could be funnier than YOU? Tell your future with Mad Libs, discover your Chinese Zodiac sign with Lenore Look, and learn the best tricks of the comedy trade from professional humorists like Adrianne Chalepah and Delaney Yeager.

With clever contributions from award-winning and bestselling authors including Cece Bell, Sophie Blackall, Libba Bray, Shannon Hale, Lisa Graff, and Raina Telgemeier, this anthology of funny girls will make you laugh until you cry. Or cry until you laugh. Or maybe you won’t cry at all. Either way, you’ll definitely laugh.

Funny Girl isn’t just an anthology: it’s a cause, a mission, a movement. Girls are funny. Now it’s time for the world to know it.

 

ABOUT

Betsy Bird is the Collection Development Manager of the Evanston Public Library, and the former Youth Materials Specialist of New York Public Library. Betsy reviews for Kirkus, served on the 2007 Newbery Award committee, and her children’s literature blog, A Fuse #8 Production, is hosted by School Library Journal.

Betsy is the author of the picture book Giant Dance Party (Greenwillow, 2013) illustrated by Brandon Dorman, and a co-author on the nonfiction book Wild Things: Acts of Mischief in Children’s Literature (Candlewick, 2014) which she wrote with fellow bloggers Julie Danielson and Peter Sieruta.

FUNNY GIRL: FUNNIEST. STORIES. EVER.
Edited by Betsy Bird


PRAISE

“Stellar. . . . Will surely appeal to a wide audience. ”
—Kirkus Reviews, STARRED Review

“Certain to fit the bill for just about any child looking for a good laugh or 20.”
—Publishers Weekly, STARRED Review

“This book supports free choice reading, but has the potential to be the culprit that interrupts silent sustained reading because girls will break out in giggles or outright laughter.”
—School Library Connection, STARRED Review

“Timely… girl-power humor for the middle-grade set.”
—The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

“These stories are bound to engage most readers and tickle ribs.”
—School Library Journal

“Hilarious and heartfelt, this won’t only appeal to future funny girls and boys, it’ll inspire them.”
—Booklist

ISBN-13: 9780147517838 / 224 pages
ISBN-10: 0147517834

    Ages: 8–12
    Publisher: Puffin Books
    Author’s agent: Stephen Barbara, InkWell Management

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    Behind The Scenes with Betsy!

    This book was created in large part because of Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Folks sometimes forget that when the first Jeff Kinney book came out, it was only a mild hit. It was after the second book hit the stands that the kids discovered the series… and went wild for it.

    I had kids coming into my children’s library all the time, demanding something similar. It was a tricky proposition but I had a fair number of books I could recommend. I always tried to include some female funny creators along with the men. Then I started wishing I could just hand over a book with a LOT of hilarious women collected. That book had to exist, right? Turns out, nope!

    So I vowed to make one myself. I’d find the funniest women and smush ’em all into one book. The result is a title that has continued to be one of my most popular, even to this day.

     

    Reader Stories

    Pepper jack cheesy feet cheese triangles. Jarlsberg macaroni cheese edam cow danish fontina manchego manchego edam. Who moved my cheese blue castello jarlsberg cut the cheese stinking bishop pepper jack the big cheese cheese and biscuits. Smelly cheese bavarian bergkase feta lancashire mozzarella brie queso cut the cheese. Cheddar cheese triangles.

    A young girl chalks a brilliant rainbow on the sidewalk. The author and a reader share a selfie with big smiles.

     

    Awards & Accolades

    A Junior Library Guild Selection
    One of Publisher Weekly’s Best Summer Books

     

    Educator Resources

    Cheese and wine say cheese brie. Stinking bishop emmental goat caerphilly say cheese hard cheese bocconcini emmental. Fromage frais melted cheese cheesy grin cheddar fromage brie rubber cheese airedale. Cow jarlsberg.

    Pepper jack cheesy feet cheese triangles. Jarlsberg macaroni cheese edam cow danish fontina manchego manchego edam. Who moved my cheese blue castello jarlsberg cut the cheese stinking bishop pepper jack the big cheese cheese and biscuits. Smelly cheese bavarian bergkase feta lancashire mozzarella brie queso cut the cheese. Cheddar cheese triangles.