Funniest. Stories. Ever.
by Betsy Bird
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Funny Girl delivers a fast-moving anthology of short, laugh-focused pieces and illustrated comics aimed at kids, stitched together by sharp, often absurdist setups. What works best is grab-and-go humor: set-piece gags, road-trip disasters, and gross-out moments that work well for read-alouds or quick bedtime laughs. Limitation: patchy tone and joke density—some pieces are breezy and sharp, others thin and repetitive—so the giggles arrive unevenly. Best enjoyed in short bursts rather than treated as a single narrative.
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Funny Girl is a collection of uproarious stories, rollicking comics, ribtickling 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 TicTac stuck up his nose, and Carmen Agr...
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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