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Any good ideas for something funny for an 11 year old boy?

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SecretSpi · 29/11/2011 08:11

I'd like to get my son a humorous book and I'm not up to date with what is around, not living in the UK. He liked the Wimpy Kid books and Horrible Histories sort of humour as well as clips of Monty Python on YouTube.

Any good ideas? The humour can be relatively sophisticated, even a bit black, but the book itself shouldn't be too difficult as English isn't his first language.

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NormaSnorks · 29/11/2011 08:53

My 11 year old has really enjoyed all the following this year:

  • Guinness Book of records
  • Jiggy McCue Series (when he was 10 actually - but may suit your brief!)
  • Dipping in and out of 'A Children's Miscellany'
  • Frank Cotteral Boyce - Cosmic & Millions etc
  • Harry Hill's TV burp & other joke books?

My 9 year old is really into Wimpy Kid, and I've just bought him these books (which seem similar):
The Brilliant World of Tom Gates

TapselteerieO · 29/11/2011 09:12

Terry Deary (Horrible Histories) wrote The Fire Theif series (3 books) my dd enjoyed them. Have you seen A Series of Unfortunate Events - they are good, quite dark too.

My dd is ten she still likes Mr Gum books for their humour, we all listen to the audiobook in the car and it even gets adults laughing.

happyAvocado · 10/12/2011 01:38

all books by David Walliams, they are really good

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