Collection: Humor

This fun-filled collection includes three books in one: Garfield Sits Around the House, Garfield Tips the Scales, and Garfield Loses His Feet.

That four-legged fur balloon we affectionately call Garfield always wants more--and he gives as good as he gets in this chunky volume of belly-busting laughs.

So whether he's walloping Odie with a paper, pelting Jon with a pie, trying out an all-the-coffee-you-can-drink diet, or sneaking onto an airplane, Garfield provides plenty of thrills and spills for his hapless owner and lots of laughs for his ravenous readers!

The GARFIELD FAT CAT 3-PACK series collects the GARFIELD comic-strip compilation books in a new, full-color format. Garfield may have gone through a few changes, but one thing has stayed the same: his enormous appetite for food and fun. So enjoy some super sized laughs with the insatiable cat, because too much fun is never enough!

Laugh all year long with this hilarious, highly illustration collection of jokes from the author of the #1 bestselling Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids series. With gags for every day of the year, it's the book perfect book to keep the whole family laughing no matter what the weather's like outside!

Q: Why are turtles always throwing parties?

A: They like to shell-ebrate!

With 365 knee-slapping puns, knock-knock jokes, and zingers, this highly illustrated, four-color gag-fest is the newest edition to Rob Elliott 's #1 bestselling LAUGH- OUT-LOUD JOKES FOR KIDS series. It's sure to keep the whole family laughing all year long. It's the perfect gift for young comedians, emergent readers, and quipsters of all ages!

Rob Elliott's bestselling Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids series has sold more than 6 million copies!

The riveting, mega-bestselling, beloved and highly acclaimed memoir of a man, a vocation, and an era named one of the ten best nonfiction titles of the year by Time and Entertainment Weekly.

In the mid-seventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forever. This book is, in his own words, the story of "why I did stand-up and why I walked away."

Emmy and Grammy Award-winner, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Shopgirl and The Pleasure of My Company, and a regular contributor to The New Yorker, Martin has always been a writer. His memoir of his years in stand-up is candid, spectacularly amusing, and beautifully written.

At age ten Martin started his career at Disneyland, selling guidebooks in the newly opened theme park. In the decade that followed, he worked in the Disney magic shop and the Bird Cage Theatre at Knott's Berry Farm, performing his first magic/comedy act a dozen times a week. The story of these years, during which he practiced and honed his craft, is moving and revelatory. The dedication to excellence and innovation is formed at an astonishingly early age and never wavers or wanes.

Martin illuminates the sacrifice, discipline, and originality that made him an icon and informs his work to this day. To be this good, to perform so frequently, was isolating and lonely. It took Martin decades to reconnect with his parents and sister, and he tells that story with great tenderness. Martin also paints a portrait of his times--the era of free love and protests against the war in Vietnam, the heady irreverence of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in the late sixties, and the transformative new voice of Saturday Night Live in the seventies.

Throughout the text, Martin has placed photographs, many never seen before. Born Standing Up is a superb testament to the sheer tenacity, focus, and daring of one of the greatest and most iconoclastic comedians of all time.

"Magnificent! The best how-to manual ever published." -- Kevin Kelly, Cool Tools

The renowned author of Understanding Comics offers brilliant instruction on how to actually create this widely beloved art form.

Scott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture in 1993 with Understanding Comics, a massive comic book about comics, linking the medium to such diverse fields as media theory, movie criticism, and web design. In Reinventing Comics, McCloud took this to the next level, charting twelve different revolutions in how comics are generated, read, and perceived today. Now, in Making Comics, McCloud focuses his analysis on the art form itself, exploring the creation of comics, from the broadest principles to the sharpest details (like how to accentuate a character's facial muscles in order to form the emotion of disgust rather than the emotion of surprise.) And he does all of it in his inimitable voice and through his cartoon stand-in narrator, mixing dry humor and legitimate instruction. McCloud shows his reader how to master the human condition through word and image in a brilliantly minimalistic way. Both comic book devotees and the uninitiated will marvel at this journey into a once-underappreciated art form.

Offering cocktails for every academic occasion along with spirited, amusing commentary, The Faculty Lounge is the perfect gift for graduate students, tenure-track professors, and disillusioned administrators.

From writer Stacy McAnulty and illustrator Stevie Lewis, Mars! Earthlings Welcome is a light-hearted nonfiction picture book about the red planet--told from the perspective of Mars himself...

Meet Mars! The red planet. Planet Marvelous. Favorite sibling of Earth (or so he claims). Sometimes they're close (just 34.5 million miles apart). Sometimes they need space (250 million miles apart)! Earth and Mars have a lot in common--clouds, mountains, polar icecaps. And while Earth has Earthlings, Mars makes a persuasive case for why people should make the journey to spend time with him. His day is 7 minutes longer! He is home to the largest volcano in the whole solar system. He's, well, marvelous.

With characteristic humor and charm, Stacy McAnulty channels the voice of Mars in this next celestial "autobiography" in the Our Universe series. Rich with kid-friendly facts and beautifully brought to life by Stevie Lewis, this is an equally charming and irresistible picture book.

This mini kit includes everything you need to grow your own catnip at home.

There are few things more adorable and hilarious than cats on catnip. Inspired by Andrew Marttila's book Cats on Catnip (Running Press, 2018), this mini kit includes everything a cat lover needs to grow their own catnip at home including:

• 2-1/2-inch ceramic pot
• Package of catnip seeds
• Peat pellet that expands in water
• Three 3 X 2-1/2-inch magnets of funny cats eating catnip
• 32-page book with growing instructions and photos of cats playing with catnip

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - This essay collection from the "bitches gotta eat" blogger, writer on Hulu's Shrill and HBO's And Just Like That, and "one of our country's most fierce and foulmouthed authors" (Amber Tamblyn, Vulture) is sure to make you alternately cackle with glee and cry real tears.

"A sidesplitting polemicist for the most awful situations."--The New York Times

Whether Samantha Irby is talking about how her difficult childhood has led to a problem in making "adult" budgets; explaining why she should be the new Bachelorette (she's "35-ish, but could easily pass for 60-something"); detailing a disastrous pilgrimage-slash-romantic-vacation to Nashville to scatter her estranged father's ashes; sharing awkward sexual encounters; or dispensing advice on how to navigate friendships with former drinking buddies who are now suburban moms (hang in there for the Costco loot!); she's as deft at poking fun at the ghosts of her past self as she is at capturing powerful emotional truths.

Don't miss Samantha Irby's bestselling new book, Quietly Hostile!

"Be good to yourself: Buy a copy of this Calvin and Hobbes cartoon book. If you don't laugh out loud at every third strip, check your pulse. You may be dead." --Phil Musick, Pittsburgh Press

Calvin is a rambunctious six-year-old whose manic antics threaten world peace. Hobbes is his stuffed tiger who comes alive when adults aren"t around. The saga of their daily exploits won cartoonist Bill Watterson the coveted Reuben Award for "Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year." Something Under the Bed Is Drooling is a jewel.

Mad Libs is the world's greatest word game and the perfect gift or activity for anyone who likes to laugh! Write in the missing words on each page to create your own hilariously funny stories all about brothers and sisters!

It's not fair, sis always gets to go to A PLACE and I never do! With 21 "fill-in-the-blank" stories about who gets to sit in the front seat, avoiding each other at school, and making backyard music videos, Brother and Sister Mad Libs is the perfect activity for brothers and sisters everywhere! Play alone, in a group, or on a family vacation! Mad Libs are a fun family activity recommended for ages 8 to NUMBER.

Brother and Sister Mad Libs includes:

- Silly stories 21 "fill-in-the-blank" stories about brothers and sisters!
- Language arts practice Mad Libs are a great way to build reading comprehension and grammar skills.
- Fun with Friends each story is a chance for friends to work together to create unique stories!

A New York Times bestseller? Oh, you know the dogs weren't going to let the cats get away with that! This canine companion to I Could Pee on This, the beloved volume of poems by cats, I Could Chew on This will have dog lovers laughing out loud. Doggie laureates not only chew on quite a lot of things, they also reveal their creativity, their hidden motives, and their eternal (and sometimes misguided) effervescence through such musings as "I Dropped a Ball," "I Lose My Mind When You Leave the House," and "Can You Smell That?" Accompanied throughout by portraits of the canine poets in all their magnificence, I Could Chew on This is a work of unbridled enthusiasm, insatiable appetite, and, yes, creative genius.

The perfect gift for new dads and expecting fathers! A punderful resource of the funniest dad jokes that every dad needs in their arsenal!

With over 500 brand new jokes on a range of topics to get dads ready to embarrass their children--and most importantly--embarrass them early, this laugh-out-loud book is a hilarious gift great for baby showers, Christmas, Father's Day, and beyond! From USA Today bestselling author Jimmy Niro, Dad Jokes for New Dads is a special edition joke book for new parents and soon-to-be fathers that celebrates dads with a full arsenal of dad jokes, silly quips, witty one-liners, and "helpful" pro tips to help them get by! A funny gag gift from any kid, wife, or partner to celebrate and prepare the new dad in their life!

Includes knee-slappers like:

Q: What did the big beer name its baby?

A: Micro brew.

I wrote a book about birds once. My publisher said it flew off the shelves!

Dad Pro Tip #1: If the baby starts to spit up, turn it toward someone else.

Whether Calvin and Hobbes are blasting off on another interplanetary adventure or approaching warp speed on a downhill wagon ride, their capers consistently charm and refresh their readers' days.

In the world that Calvin and his tiger Hobbes share, treasures can be found in the most unlikely places, from the outer regions where Spaceman Spiff travels to the rocks in the backyard--this curious duo roams their world in search of fortunes (and misfortunes!) to be experienced.

On his own, Calvin is prey to the insidious killer bicycle, is the arbiter of the Dad poll, is the creator of a legion of snowmen who provide an incisive social commentary, and Hobbes is always there as the perfect companion.

Watterson's talent is evidenced by the range of thought-provoking emotions the strip encompasses in addition to the laughs it induces: the loyalty and friendship between Calvin and Hobbes, the challenge of being a patient parent, and the sardonic viewpoint of a cynical six-year-old ("I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family," laments Calvin) combine to make this one of the best-loved strips in cartoon history.

Now an animated series with Paramount+ and Nickelodeon!

In this follow up to New York Times best-seller Big Nate: From the Top, eleven-year-old Nate Wright is living OUT LOUD and he wouldn't have it any other way!

Even though his friends won't let him be the lead singer in their band, Nate continues to rock. He's a superstar of the comics pages and of the best-selling series of Big Nate books and he's a big hit with kids everywhere. This collection features full-color daily and Sunday strips that originally appeared in newspapers.

What could be more appropriate than a book devoted to all the animals, what they eat, and their habitats. With everything from your favorite pets to wild animals to farm animals?Animals, Animals, Animals! Mad Libs Junior is perfect for the animal lover in all of us!

Prove you are the smartest schmuck in the room with 500 true trivia facts that sound absurd. These facts are so absurd some might even say that they sound like bull$#*t!

Knowledge is power! Crush the competition at trivia night, or start the most interesting conversation ever with real facts that are hard to believe. This book is loaded with mind-blowing facts that are sure to keep you wondering, "How are these even true?" while equipping you to outsmart everyone around and blow their minds. Topics include:

• Science
• American Sports
• History
• Pop Culture
• Nature

Put your game face on, and prove once and for all that you are the real know-it-all! Gather your friends and family 'round and get ready to learn some wild and crazy trivia and facts such as:

• True or False? A chicken once survived almost two years after having its head cut off.
• True or False? The dog that played Toto in The Wizard of Oz was paid a salary.
• How many baseballs does the MLB use every season?
• What state has jousting as its official sport?
• True or False? Most Canadians live south of Seattle.

Stump everyone with True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t!