She Made Me Laugh

She Made Me Laugh
Author: Stephanie Emmons
Publisher: Paraclete Press
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1640606580

Most people likely know of Mother Teresa’s great faithfulness to God’s call as she started her ministry to the poor in Calcutta. But at the time, few knew that she had lost all sense of God's presence, love, and sometimes the assurance that God existed at all. Astonishingly, for 50 years, the saint's life was spent in what she called "the darkness." Yet, somehow Mother Teresa managed to get up every morning and say yes to God. And not only did she say yes, she came to accept the darkness, while also allowing a sense of humor and even playfulness to shine through. This book is a memoir of the author’s direct experiences with Mother Teresa during a trip to Calcutta in 1996 when she discovered that sense of humor first hand. It is also an extended reflection on the beloved saint’s “dark night of the soul” and what that might mean for spiritual seekers today.

Backyard Beasties

Backyard Beasties
Author: Diane L. Burns
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2004-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1575056879

Perfect for beginning readers, this laugh-out-loud joke book about creepy creatures will put a smile on your face!

Don't Make Me Laugh

Don't Make Me Laugh
Author: James Stevenson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2003-03-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780374418434

Do you feel like laughing? Then you'd better not read this book! There is no laughing allowed! Do you hear? NO LAUGHING!

Make Us Laugh!

Make Us Laugh!
Author: Stéphanie Babin
Publisher: Twirl
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-03-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9782408016135

Warning: Laughter is contagious! The animal friends dare the reader to make them laugh, but the ladybug and the bunny are sure that they won't laugh, no matter what. The monkey and the crocodile think it's impossible to make them laugh too. And the same goes for the bear and the wolf. Still, readers can go ahead and try . . . but will they succeed? Kids will giggle and chuckle as they find ways to make the animals laugh in this seriously funny sound book that includes seven big laughs.

My Mom and Dad Make Me Laugh

My Mom and Dad Make Me Laugh
Author: Nick Sharratt
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996
Genre: Pattern perception
ISBN: 9781564025807

This mom and dad are a little odd--and a lot of fun! Mom likes spots, and Dad likes stripes. But their son's favorite thing couldn't be more of a surprise! "It's stripes vs. dots in this eye-boggling feast of extroverted colors and shapes".--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.

God Makes Me Laugh

God Makes Me Laugh
Author: Joseph A. Grassi
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2009-03-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725225433

"God has made me Laugh and all who hear about it will laugh at me." These are the words of Sarah after she bore a child to Abraham when both were in advanced old age. Sarah named this child "Isaac" which means "laughter." Thus believers, as descendants of Abraham and Isaac are "children of laughter." Luke takes the theme of joy and laughter through his whole gospel. The angels at Jesus's birth announce "good news of great joy" to all the people. Jesus presents his teaching in the form of grace and surprise which prompt joy and laughter on the part of the gospel audience. Luke has before him the image of a "laughing Jesus." As a climactic story, Jesus visits Jericho near the Dead Sea. The chief tax collector for Rome, Zaccheus, a most unpopular man, small in stature and character as well, climbs a tree so he can see Jesus coming in spite of the crowds. Jesus spots him with laughter, and calls out, to the dismay of the crowd, "Zaccheus, hurry up and climb down, I'm going to have dinner at your house today." Luke's gospel presents Jesus as a comic contrast to many ultra-serious religious teachers by his concern for the outcast, strangers, and marginalized of society.

I Dare You to Make Me Laugh!

I Dare You to Make Me Laugh!
Author: Lewis Bridges
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2018-07-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9781724366306

Comedians spend a considerably amount of their time trying to think of things to say; and things to do, that would cause folks to lose their sophisticated composure and begin to wallow in side aching, gut busting laughter. However, even with their best efforts, nothing they can do or say that would spark total floor stomping back slapping, gut retching laughter like unintentional funny situations. This book will present a few of those unintentional funny moments that has brought abundant of laughter into the life of strangers, as well as an outburst of individual laughter when no one else was in the area when it happened.

Don't Laugh at Me

Don't Laugh at Me
Author: Allen Shamblin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2002
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781582460581

Illustrated version of a song pointing out that in spite of our differences, we are all the same in God's eyes.

She Made Me Laugh

She Made Me Laugh
Author: Richard M. Cohen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2016-09-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1476796149

“A very personal remembrance of Nora Ephron’s life and loves, and her ups and downs” (USA TODAY) by her long-time and dear friend Richard Cohen in a hilarious, blunt, raucous, and poignant recollection of their decades-long friendship. Nora Ephron (1941–2012) was a phenomenal personality, journalist, essayist, novelist, playwright, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, and movie director (Sleepless in Seattle; You’ve Got Mail; When Harry Met Sally; Heartburn; Julie & Julia). She wrote a slew of bestsellers (I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman; I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections; Scribble, Scribble: Notes on the Media; Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women). She was celebrated by Hollywood, embraced by literary New York, and adored by legions of fans throughout the world. Award-winning journalist Richard Cohen, wrote this about She Made Me Laugh: “I call this book a third-person memoir. It is about my closest friend, Nora Ephron, and the lives we lived together and how her life got to be bigger until, finally, she wrote her last work, the play, Lucky Guy, about a newspaper columnist dying of cancer while she herself was dying of cancer. I have interviewed many of her other friends—Mike Nichols, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep, Arianna Huffington—but the book is not a name-dropping star turn, but an attempt to capture a remarkable woman who meant so much to so many other women.” With “the nuanced perspective of a confidant” (The Washington Post), She Made Me Laugh “is a fine tribute to a fascinating woman” (Houston Chronicle): “Nora would be pleased” (People, “Book of the Week”).

I Bet I Can Make You Laugh

I Bet I Can Make You Laugh
Author: Joshua Seigal
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2018-08-09
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1472955463

WINNER OF THE 2020 LAUGH OUT LOUD AWARDS Packed full of stupendously silly, fantastically funny and hysterically hilarious poems, this brilliant anthology is edited by dynamic poet, Joshua Seigal. Featuring a diverse range of contributors and some brand new poems from Joshua himself, this book is perfect for anyone who needs a giggle or a belly laugh! 'I think any reader would find it hard not only to avoid laughing, but to stop themselves reading the poems aloud – they are absolutely begging to be performed!' (Library Girl and Book Boy) Poets include: A.F. Harrold, Raymond Antrobus, Andy Seed, Sue Hardy-Dawson, Adisa, Kat Francois, James Carter, Jay Hulme and Lewis Carroll. Packed with laugh out loud illustrations by Tim Wesson, this follow up to I Don't Like Poetry (which was shortlisted for the 2017 Laugh Out Loud Awards) is a marvellous mixture of subversive humour and insight into the world of children.