I so often tell students in upper elementary through high school that I don't think you ever outgrow picture books...so I wanted to list a couple of great newer funny picture books that I think anyone (who shares my sense of humor!) would enjoy:

• The hilariously illustrated Too Many Pears by Jackie French
• My Father the Dog by Elizabeth Bluemle which highlights the amazing similarities between the dog and the father in this household.
• A Birthday for Cow by Jan Thomas, with great comic-like illustrations, and a duck who is a little obsessed with turnips
• Fifteen Animals (a board book) by one of the authors that ALWAYS entertains both Teresa and I: Sandra Boynton. If you've never read a Sandra Boynton book...you're missing out! Two of my other favorites is Moo Baa, La, La, La and What's Wrong Little Pookie?
• And for all those fellow Scaredy Squirrel fans out there, a new book has just joined the group of stories about this very parnoid rodent: Scaredy Squirrel at Night. 

The first book in the Percy Jackson books by Rick Riordan is being made into a movie, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, to be released in February 2010.

This series has been very popular, with the 5th book, The Last Olympian, just released this month.