Found 309 results for "Children's humourous stories"
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
Ce Vieux monsieur et cette vieille dame sont les parents de Mr. Bucket.
The Happy Prince and other tales
by Oscar Wilde
High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince.
Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)
by Jerome Klapka Jérôme
THERE were four of us - George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...
George's Marvelous Medicine
by Roald Dahl
'I'm going shopping in the village,' George's mother said to George on Saturday morning.
The Pickwick Papers
by Charles Dickens
THE first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the ea...
Don Quijote de la Mancha
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
"THIS is the story that Miguel de Cervantes, Spaniard, published in 1605, which the world has been reading again and aga...
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unrega...
The Miserable Mill
by Lemony Snicket
Sometime during your life-in fact, very soon-you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book's firs...
The Austere Academy
by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist
If you were going to give a gold medal to the least delightful person on Earth, you would have to give that medal to a p...
The Ersatz Elevator
by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist
The book you are holding in your two hands right now-assuming that you are, in fact, holding this book, and that you hav...
Tom Sawyer Abroad
by Mark Twain
Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?
The Vile Village
by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist
No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is o...
The Slippery Slope
by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist
A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled," describing a journey he took through the woo...
The Hostile Hospital
by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist
There are two reasons why a writer would end a sentence with the word "stop" written entirely in capital letters STOP.
