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Expect a horror-survival story with dark humour: a blizzard-stranded camp, missing campers and a zombie outbreak drive the action. A mystery about the camp’s supposed obesity cure runs alongside the fight to survive.

The cat treats the household’s lack of consideration as a grievance, while its own actions leave it covered in rubbish. A bath resolves the mess, but the cat makes clear it is not entirely welcome.

This is a comic adventure about three space-minded pets facing separation from their humans, a clinic escape and a secret-laboratory mystery.

Sam’s attachment to print clashes with a proposed online school newspaper, and she learns her best friend supports the change. The story also follows Sam’s school-paper interests and her budding crush.

Expect a fantastical underworld of masked demons and hungry ghosts, with bargains involving personal treasures. Kasu’s effort to help Arun brings danger and deceit into a story that also features a cat companion.

A playful chase story asks readers to notice what the pictures reveal while the mouse narrator denies it. Humour comes from that mismatch, with dragons pursuing the mouse and a final change to the book’s title.

Bible stories are retold through Minecraft-style block worlds, using images, text boxes and speech bubbles. The events are explained in light prose, with in-game humour in the dialogue.

A kidnapping and ransom plan becomes a comic contest of wills: the criminals struggle with their young captive, while his father turns their demand back on them.

The book brings together mouse misadventures, a beard-tangling puzzle and children’s plan to hide an elephant, all leading towards a Midsummer’s Eve gathering.

The children respond to an unfair arrangement by growing vegetables and proposing a trade. Their plan depends on whether the ruler will value the produce, so the story’s hoped-for resolution centres on negotiation.

Expect school and homework mishaps, Tom's excuses, and his attempts to impress Amy. His exercise-book entries mix written thoughts with doodles and cartoons.

A family-centred adventure moves from the Bobbseys’ home to a summer stay at Meadow Brook, with comic mishaps and a run of outings and surprises.

A set of humorous, illustrated rhyming stories offers playful scenarios, from a persuasive cat and a duck's poor decision to a rabbit's unusual escape from a bear.

The princess’s snoring causes a palace commotion. Princes come seeking a reward if they can stop it, but the story leaves open whether their kisses will help.

A talking cat leads Zeke from everyday family and school difficulties into an eccentric underground fantasy, with zombies, spies and other unusual characters. The mix promises comic adventure alongside the pressures of home and school.

A family’s division of labour is disrupted when the mother, who does the household tasks, is suddenly absent. A note and peculiar changes bring fantasy into this family story.

Henry’s all-day fondness for chocolate is followed by strange physical changes and a trip to a doctor. The story then shifts into a humorous chase, culminating in an unusual hijacking.

A bedtime-resisting child turns a family party into an increasingly lively affair, before the guests leave and everyone is ready for sleep. The rhyming, humorous setup centres on family life.

A fast-moving mystery-adventure pairs a boy’s search for his missing father with unusual beetles, new friendships and a colourful villain. Expect comic characters, insect facts and bursts of action.

A lively, comic animal adventure, with an eccentric family and a cat whose unusual condition drives the plot. Billy’s collecting hobby and the pet-show challenge add extra strands to the story.

This is presented as a comic story of mismatched impressions and eccentric circumstances, bringing two teenagers together in a residential home for older people.

A bleakly comic instalment about three siblings facing misfortune while living and working at a lumber mill; the narrator openly signals an unhappy, rather than comforting, reading experience.

This is a comic-sounding ghost adventure built around two children trying to protect rare cattle and help their elderly relatives. The rescue effort involves both a castle attraction and sinister opponents.

Expect playful rhymes mixing imaginary creatures and comic everyday characters, alongside poems of tribute. The collection’s range may appeal to readers who enjoy humour in verse.

A playful reworking of familiar fairy-tale plots, with modern settings and comic reversals. The contents list ten separate stories by different contributors.

This true animal tale follows backyard turkey-raising and the particular personalities attributed to Royal, Snuggles and other animals. Its appeal appears to centre on observing their individual antics rather than on a stated practical guide to animal care.

Expect comic, imaginative poetry rather than one continuous story: the collection moves among unusual characters, situations and drawings.

This is a comic, bodily-themed premise built around an imagined problem and an inventive search. The appeal may depend on whether your child enjoys silly humour about bottoms.

A substantial literary miscellany, combining famous imaginative tales with verse, puzzles and less familiar comic writing; it offers more than a single continuous story.

This is a comic imagined episode about Taft becoming stuck in a bathtub, with cabinet members offering advice.

This is a family story in which Claire’s difficult school and home life is upended by her father’s medical emergency. Humour is presented as one way the characters try to get through a serious situation.

Expect a Minecraft-themed comic fiction premise involving a zombie; the listed spring-break and holiday subjects suggest a vacation context, but do not reveal what happens.

This is a picture-led, humorous book that asks readers to notice details and piece together what is happening, rather than simply consume the pictures.

Expect a lively, absurd animal adventure built around friendship, danger and rescue. Its distinctive appeal lies in comic names, playful language, a fantastical setting and illustrations intended to invite shared noticing.

A light, episodic collection built around SpongeBob and his friends, with comic, sea-themed situations ranging from neighbours and school-like monitoring to valentines, fame and a rocket.

A gently comic story about a well-meaning girl whose attempts to do the proper thing repeatedly become escapades. Its pleasures appear to lie in lively mishaps, period details and a distinctive small-town setting.

A lively paranormal story combines family rivalry, possible magical inheritance, romance and a heroine learning to accept herself. Its darker turns involve fear, coercion and physical threat, so the tone is not consistently light.

A lively bridge between picture books and more independent reading: three comic adventures combine baking, mystery, ghosts and imaginative gadgets. Its illustrations, energetic language, alliteration and recurring characters make the book especially suited to shared reading or a child building confidence.

A playful haunted-house adventure centres on two rowdy poltergeists, a babysitting arrangement and children trying to repair the disruption. Expect comic supernatural trouble, resident ghosts and a brisk problem-solving storyline rather than a realistic family drama.

This is a humorous Minecraft fantasy built around a looming threat, friendship and action. It may suit a child seeking a familiar game world, silly situations and a fast-moving battle rather than realism.

A lively football story about friendship, team identity and the excitement of entering a proper championship. Humour drives the opening, while competition and disagreement introduce more serious questions about belonging.

Expect exuberant pretend play rather than a realistic animal story: the elephant’s presence turns ordinary routines into comic problems, while friendship and physical affection provide the book’s reassuring centre.

Expect a warm family story with humour and emotional depth. Batty’s efforts to earn money, her singing talent and the changing relationships around her provide several strands beyond the central grief.

This is a broad, illustrated poetry collection: silly and thoughtful verses sit alongside nursery rhymes, limericks, proverbs, folk songs and seasonal poems. Its visual world includes children of many races, animals and nature, while some selections use richer or more serious language.

A playful, spooky adventure collection in which ghost-hunting brings together a frightened child and an experienced helper. Expect slimy supernatural imagery, unusual creatures, comic danger and practical-looking ghost-hunting activities.