The funniest books for children!

If you like stories that make you laugh, then look out for the winners of the Lollies (the Laugh Out Loud Awards)!

Best Medicine by Christine Hamill won the award for the Best Laugh Out Loud Book for 9-13 year olds. Future Ratboy and the Invasion of the Nom Noms by Jim Smith (Egmont) won the Best Laugh Out Loud Book for 6-8 year olds. David Solomon's My Gym Teacher is an Alien Overlord (Nosy Crow) also won an award, the Laugh Out Loud Children's PopJam Award. Teachers and their classes, parents and children have helped to choose the winners by voting for their favorites in each category. Here are the full shortlists for each category - so there are lots of funny books to choose from! Best Laugh Out Loud Book for 6-8 year olds Thimble Monkey Superstar by Jon Blake and Martin Chatterton (Firefly Press) Hamish and the Neverpeople by Danny Wallace and Jamie Littler (Simon and Schuster) Eddy Stone and the Epic Holiday Mash-Up by Simon Cherry (Usborne) Future Ratboy and the Invasion of the Nom Noms by Jim Smith (Egmont) Best Laugh Out Loud Book for 9-13 year olds. I Don't Like Poetry by Joshua Seigal (Bloomsbury) The Best Medicine by Christine Hamill (Little Island Books) My Gym Teacher is an Alien Overlord by David Solomons and Laura Ellen Anderson (Nosy Crow) AniMalcolm by David Baddiel and Jim Field (Harper Collins)