{"id":368713,"date":"2026-03-27T21:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T21:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/368713\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T21:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T21:28:16","slug":"sarah-webb-on-25-funny-books-that-will-have-your-kids-in-fits-of-giggles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/368713\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Webb on 25 funny books that will have your kids in fits of giggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">In the penultimate part of our spring series, the award-winning author has a leaf through the best new children\u2019s books that will get children chortling\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Queen Maeve from \u2018Little Irish History Heroes\u2019 by Niamh Donnellan and illustrated by Brian Fitzgerald (Gill Books)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/38d56dc7-fa05-454f-a00a-596b3b80e2bc.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Queen Maeve from \u2018Little Irish History Heroes\u2019 by Niamh Donnellan and illustrated by Brian Fitzgerald (Gill Books)<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It\u2019s an exciting time for children\u2019s comic books, featuring the likes of a time-travelling schoolgirl and an inept fairy, plus the stories of some of Irish history\u2019s most memorable figures told in jaunty rhyme. Here are 25 gems that will put a spring in the step of your young ones and keep them laughing out loud and reading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">by Scott Campbell (DK Books)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the penultimate part of our spring series, the award-winning author has a leaf through the best new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,279],"class_list":["post-368713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-review-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}