Best of
Funny

1979

Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars


Daniel M. Pinkwater - 1979
    Leonard's life at his new junior high is just barely tolerable until he becomes friends with the unusual Alan and with him shares an extraordinary adventure.

Aunt Erma's Cope Book


Erma Bombeck - 1979
    Our Erma is on her way to becoming a sub-total woman.

The Life of Brian: Screenplay


Graham Chapman - 1979
    But, with its unforgettable songs and its infinitely quotable script it has gone on to become an enduring cult classic.

Motel of the Mysteries


David Macaulay - 1979
    Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber. Carson's incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that extraordinary civilization.

Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You


Lewis Grizzard - 1979
    A collection of stories by the author who describes things that happened to him while living in the southern United States

The Wonderful World of Robert Sheckley


Robert Sheckley - 1979
    A TV thrill show where the corpses are real. And a shuddering descent into laughter.Tales by the grand master of science fiction.

Yobgorgle, Mystery Monster of Lake Ontario


Daniel Pinkwater - 1979
    While visiting Rochester, New York, young Eugene meets the strange Professor Ambrose McFwain and goes out with him in his boat to search for a mysterious sea monster that has been sighted on Lake Ontario.

The Sixteen Hand Horse


Fred Gwynne - 1979
    Depicts a little girl's visual images of her parents' talking about such things as bells that peel, banking a fire, and a running nose.

The Broons 1979


Dudley D. Watkins - 1979
    

I Will Not Go to Market Today


Harry Allard - 1979
    Buttercrunch's repeated attempts to go to market are met with obstacles.