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Humorous Genre
Books in the Humorous genre:
Asterix the Gaul (1969)
Author(s):
René Goscinny
Illustrator(s):
Albert Uderzo
Asterix the Gladiator (1969)
Author(s):
René Goscinny
Illustrator(s):
Albert Uderzo
Brave Johnny O’Hare (1969)
Brave Johnny O’Hare is a little Australian boy who is not afraid of anything, even the Bunyip, until one night …
Author(s):
Eleanor B. Heady
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
A Child’s Book of Natural History (1969)
This is a collection of humorous verse about members of the animal kingdom.
Author(s):
Margaret Fishback
Oliver Herford
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
Cora Annett’s Homerhenry (1969)
A tailor and a shoemaker dress up as a horse out of work.
Author(s):
Cora Annett
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
Mike and Psmith (1969)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Charles Waterhouse
A Pelican at Blandings (1969)
Lord Emsworth harassed by self-invited Dukes and sisters, young hearts that are sundered and crooks on the prowl summons Galahad to the rescue.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Osbert Lancaster
The Quangle Wangle’s Hat (1969)
The Quangle Wangle lives in the top of the Crumpetty tree.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Helen Oxenbury
The Rotten Book (1969)
Simon overhears his parents talking about a rotten kid and wonders what he did. What would it be like to be a rotten kid?
Author(s):
Mary Rodgers
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
The Shooting of Dan McGrew and the Cremation of Sam McGee (1969)
Designed by Susan Jeffers.
Author(s):
Robert W. Service
Illustrator(s):
Susan Jeffers
Rosemary Wells
Asterix the Legionary (1970)
Author(s):
René Goscinny
Illustrator(s):
Albert Uderzo
Call Me Bandicoot (1970)
Author(s):
William Pène du Bois
Illustrator(s):
William Pène du Bois
Don Camillo Meets the Flower Children (1970)
The sixth collection of stories of a little Italian village in the valley of the Po where the priest Don Camillo battles the communist mayor Peppone.
Author(s):
Giovanni Guareschi
Illustrator(s):
Giovanni Guareschi
Catherine Smolich
The Erie Canal (1970)
I’ve got an old mule and her name is Sal,
Fifteen miles on the Eirie canal.
Author(s):
Thomas S. Allen
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Granny and the Desperadoes (1970)
The two desperadoes can’t resist granny’s apple pie.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Peggy Parish
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
Henry Reed’s Big Show (1970)
This summer Henry and Midge are theatrical producers.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Keith Robertson
Illustrator(s):
Robert McCloskey
Matilda Who Told Lies and Was Burned to Death (1970)
Matilda comes to a bad end.
Author(s):
Hilaire Belloc
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
No Nudes is Good Nudes (1970)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Barry Zaid
The Orchestra Mice (1970)
Clarissa and Stan Mouse raise a family of twelve musician mice.
Author(s):
Jacqueline Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Morrow
Otto and the Magic Potatoes (1970)
Otto the giant otter hound and his friend Duke are on vacation. Otto finds a use for Baron Backgammon’s giant potatoes and saves the Village of Backgammon.
Author(s):
William Pène du Bois
Illustrator(s):
William Pène du Bois