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Are Children’s Books Funny? TimesOnline Finds Little Reason to Laugh
I’m finding that there are days when reading to my 5 year old son is not as fun as it used to be, not because he’s not up to it but because it sometimes feels so serious. He just does not seem to laugh as much, instead he asks serious questions like why does Slinky Malinky steal? or why did the goat run of without paying? We have not had a major laugh in ages. Are children’s stories just getting too serious? Times Online finds little reason to laugh, read here for more:
Laughter is such an integral part of children’s books that a special prize for funny ones might seem odd. Who doesn’t laugh at The Cat in the Hat, the misadventures of Just William and the scatalogical rudeness of Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes?
Yet since children’s literature moved into crossover fiction, it has grown steadily darker. There has always been darkness, of course: few things could be grimmer than Grimm, or more frightening than Peter Rabbit’s struggle not to be put into a pie.
Children’s classics address big philosophical questions without turning a hair. But the other side of fairytales, on which all good books draw, is comedy.
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Came across this link which is about the same event, different angle - http://www.booktrust.org.uk/show/posts/Booktrust%20blog/Funny-Ha-Ha