Books are influential. They have the power to make you cry, dream, escape reality and catapult you on new adventures. Books also have the magical ability to bring on smiles and laughs when they’re ...

Get ready to wake up the person sleeping next to you. Here are dozens of funny books guaranteed to make you laugh out loud. Our editors and experts handpick every product we feature. We may earn a ...

Scholastic research shows that humor in books is the top characteristic kids look for when making their reading selections. According to the Scholastic Kids & Family Reading Report, more than 50 ...

(From left) Andrea Beaty, Erica Pearl, and Rita Williams-Garcia (speaking) Photo: Rebecca Lomax/American Libraries Children’s authors Andrea Beaty, Cece Bell, Betsy Bird, Erica Perl, and Rita Williams ...

When Kristen Schaal and Rich Blomquist visited a bookstore to check out the placement of their new book, The Sexy Book of Sexy Sex, the comedians-turned-authors found it in the "oddities and ...

If you're a voracious reader who just can't get in to historical fiction books, maybe you haven't been reading the right ones. While a lot of historical novels focus primarily on accuracy and on times ...

Four children’s book authors walk into a library and… discuss the challenges, joys, and mechanisms of writing humor for kids. The event, part of the New York Public Library’s ongoing Children’s ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

ISLAMABAD: As mental health challenges rise among patients and healthcare providers, experts are advocating for humorous writing and poetry as effective tools for enhancing overall mental well-being.

As many as 1,000 humourous books were donated to the Pune police on June 1, 2021,as an acknowledgement and gratitude towards the way police boosted the confidence of the citizens during the lockdown.