The author of the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” series shares a handful of titles that have helped shape his sense of humor.

Scholastic research shows that humor in books is the top characteristic kids look for when making their reading selections. According to the Scholastic Kids & Family Reading Report, more than 50 ...

Jason Travis Ott has built a social-media fanbase by catering to logophiles. “Grandiloquent Words” draws together some of his favorite examples of exotic names for mundane objects and phenomena, which ...

The humorist is usually a passing fancy with the public. His brand of wit catches the popular eye, holds it for a space, then is forgotten, as a new humorist comes along with a new method of twisting ...