PG Wodehouse: This Brit writer has several series to his credit-Jeeves and Wooster. P. Smith, and Blandings-and each of them is hilarious. His descriptions are detailed his stories begin slow, and he uses tell as much as show, which means he bends a lot of rules of ‘good writing But breaking rules can be fun as you realise when reading PG Wodehouse’s works. Some of the popular ones are “Aunts Arent Gentlemen”, “The World of Blandings”, and “Psmith in the City”.
Roald Dahl: When he is not scany, Roald Dahl is supremely funny And, of course, he is the one to give us fun words such as splendiferous, gloriumptious, wondercnump (all meaning marvellous, in case you were scratching your head) and propsposterous (which means even more preposterous than preposterous) and churgle (chuckle+ gurgle. now you’re getting the hang of it). For a liberal dose of his humour, go read George’s Marvellous Medicine”. “The BFG” or “Charlie and the Chocolate Factony” Or anything Roald Dahl, for that matter!
David Walliams: When David Walliams is not judging talent shows or swimming the English Channel he writes children’s books. His first-The Boy in the Dress was a pathbreaker, and his style is compared to that of Roald Dahl. His books have comer shops with funny owners, and t schools that are obviously, scary (a completely Roald Dahl undertone), and prominently Indian characters! Go for his “Gangsta Granny it’s hilarious, and The Boy in the Dress, just lovely.
Anushka Ravishankar: Anushka Ravishankar’s books can have you laughing for hours after you’ve read them. She can write nonsense literature with the same air as humour and make it look ever so easy. If you haven’t yet read any of her works, you could take “Captain Coconut and the Case of the Missing Bananas” (younger readers), “Moin and the Monster” and “Moin and the Monster Songster”, and the “Zain and Ana” series.
Natasha Sharma: This author is known for her funny bone. She has a series called “History Mystery that will challenge your ideas about historical characters and the situations that led to certain decisions taken by them! And be assured you will be laughing your head off. Try “Raja Raja and the Swapped Sacks”. Her knock-knock jokes assimilated into history were great!
Lavanya Karthik: Here is a writer whose granny on a mission has taken the country’s kids by storm. Deepu’s nani is not your average nani. She loves watching food shows on the telly and even fights with Deepu for the remote until one day she turns into a ninja! Lavanya has spun three books of the “Ninja Nani” series with a cluster of zany characters and they are just wow.
Derek Landy: Irish author Derek Landy was working on his parents farm, when in 2007 he got a publishing contract with Harper Collins. And what did come out of it? A series of books featuring a skeleton detective! He has enough wisecracks to put a stand-up comic to shame, and has an entire generation of readers laughing with his comic-horror series “Skulduggery Pleasant” – more than a dozen and counting.
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