Best Fun and Funny Series for 7 and 8 year olds

In between reading reports, school commitments and the stress of reading bands, books aren't always associated with fun. If anything, many children aged 7 or 8 think they're boring, too serious and sometimes hard to understand!

We're big believers that every child just needs to find their perfect book to become readers for life. For many, humorous books are the key to reading for pleasure! Books where jokes, puns and hilariously impossible situations take the lead and laughing is guaranteed.

We love fun and funny books, especially for this age range. Here are some of our top series to tickle the ribs and get the giggles going!

Georgina Atwell

Toppsta

2026-03-02

2024-05-08

Best Fun and Funny Series for 7 and 8 year olds

Donut Squad Series

The Donut Squad graphic novel funny adventures all explore what donuts are really getting up to when we're not eating them.

Would you have said they have BIG PLANS for WOLD DOMINATION? Well, probably not, but that is exactly what they truly want. So, in each book of this series, the leader of the Squad, Sprinkles, and her friends plot the defeat of their mortal enemies: the bagels! We love the cast of funny characters in this series, including but not limited to: Jammyboi, who spreads stickiness EVERYWHERE; Dadnut and Lil' Timmy, who explain obscure facts, and Spronky, who is bizarrely unconventional!

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Daisy Fiction Series

Daisy and the Trouble with... is the perfect step towards chapter book reading for readers ages 5+!

From the brilliant creator and bestselling author of the Oi books, Kes Gray, Daisy and the Trouble with... is the perfect next step for readers who are starting to read independently. Daisy is your not-so-ordinary main character... wherever she goes, whatever she does... well, there always seems to be some sort of trouble! Whether it's at school, at the zoo, on holiday, on her birthday, on sports day...on any other day! There's always something new to sort, and until she solves it, we're in TROUBLE.

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The Bolds Series

This series has collected review upon review on Toppsta, and for good reason: it's the absolutely hilarious collection of illustrated chapter books for readers aged 6+ about a family of hyenas living among humans!

The Bolds are just like any other family: they live in a house (in Teddington), they have jobs (like writing Christmas cracker jokes) and they love to have a bit of a giggle. One slight difference: they are hyenas. In each book, the family is either getting in big trouble, going on a wild adventure, or getting surprise visits.

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Marty Moose Series

Marty Moose is written and illustrated by the brilliant Claire Powell – we recommend her chapter book series for readers aged 7+ who love funny adventures and even funnier characters.

Marty Moose is not a moose, but a sweet mouse who has the hard job of being his town's PostMouse. Being a PostMouse in Little Ditch is no easy task, and in each book Marty and his (not-so-helpful) sidekick Nibbles Frizzby get lost in a new adventure! We love the funny tone of these stories, the characters and all the fantastic two-colour illustrations throughout, including a detailed map at the very beginning of each book.

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An Alien in the Jam Factory Series

We recommend this inclusive, funny and jam-packed series with black-and-white illustrations throughout to readers aged 7+.

The series feature a main character with cerebral palsy who is an inventor and has constant fizz of brilliant ideas! When a tiny alien named Fizzbee crashes through the factory window, Scooter McLay makes a best friend for life, and together they help Scooter's jam factory, find treasures and avoid a slimy slug invasion. We especially love how inclusive these books are, helping children feel represented or simply build empathy and awareness.

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The Worst Class in the World Series

This series has been read by Toppsta reviewers aged 6 all the way up to 11. It's a hilarious early chapter book series full of black-and-white illustrations, set in the very WORST class in the world.

The books are highly illustrated throughout and feature two hilarious madcap student adventures per book, and we've found this makes them just right for children ready for their first chapter books. The books all have one thing in common: according to head teacher Mrs Bottomley-Blunt, 4B is the WORST CLASS IN THE WORLD.

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Space Detectives Series

So many fantastic Toppsta reader reviews for this detective chapter book series set in space for readers aged 7+ and fully illustrated throughout.

In the world of Space Detectives, Starville is the world's first orbiting city, where there always seems to be a strange new mystery to solve. Two best friends Connor and Ethan are always up for that job. In the books they manage to save their space station from colliding with the moon, find missing space pets and so many other intergalactic mysteries.

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Villains Academy Series

This is such a fun fully illustrated series for naughty readers aged 7+, all about a special school where it's ALWAYS good to be bad.

The series follows werewolf Bram’s first day at Villains Academy, the most prestigious villain school in the ENTIRE land. He really doesn’t feel like a villain at all, but soon enough he makes some truly wonderful friends that will stick by his side throughout the school years and share many adventures together: Mona the elf-witch, Bryan the lion, Shelia the ghost and Tony the skeleton.

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Little Badman Series

We love this middle grade series for readers aged 7+, and think it's the perfect step up to the next reading level.

All Humza Khan wants is to be a rapper. In fact, he is the greatest eleven-year-old rapper Eggington has ever known. But his music is at stake ... by some aunties TAKING OVER SCHOOL! This is just the beginning of some truly the-world-could-come-to-an-end adventures. Throughout the series, Humza will have to go through all sorts of trials and tribulations to SAVE THE WORLD, from time-travelling teachers to radioactive samosas that have been contaminated by rocks from outer space.

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Sam Wu is Not Afraid Series

Meet the world's bravest scaredy-cat! Sam Wu is Not Afraid is the perfect illustrated funny chapter book series for courageous children in the making ages 6+. Sam Wu is courageous. Sam Wu is FEARLESS. Sam Wu is most definitely not afraid of ghosts, werewolves, the space, spiders, sharks or zombies. NOT. Sam Wu speaks to the wimp in each and every one of us! But what makes Sam's adventures so special is that he overcomes all his new challenges to prove to his peers that he is TOTALLY NOT scared. But proving how brave you are is HARD WORK, and none of these challenges are easy for Sam Wu.

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Bridget Vanderpuff by Martin Steward and David Habben (Zephyr)

Chicken Hill by Beccy Blake (Bloomsbury)

Horrid Henry by Horrid Henry and Tony Ross (Hachette)

Hotel of the Gods by Tom Easton and Steve Brown (Hachette)

Julius Zebra by Gary Northfield (Walker)

Just William by Richmal Crompton (Macmillan Children's Books)

Knights Sir Louis by The Brothers McLeod (Guppy)

Koalas in Capes by Terrie Chilvers and David O'Connell (Nosy Crow)

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