How to be Silly Every Day of the Year
Harry Hill
Walker Books

Once upon a time Harry Hill was a doctor but he gave up practising medicine and became a comedian instead. If you are looking for reasons for being silly then you can blame this guy for compiling a book that encourages readers to be silly for a whole 365 days. Alternatively if you fancy a short spell of silliness you can dip in and see what takes your fancy just for a few days at a time. Assuredly you will find some hilarious suggestions among the activities.

Want to impress your parents? How about turning yourself into a human hoover. to do so you will need several rolls of double-sided sticky tape to wrap around yourself. Then all you have to do is lie down on the carpet or a rug and roll around picking up whatever fluff and rubbishy bits are there.

Maybe you’d like to adopt a conker. If so, ask an adult to make a hole through it so you can thread it onto a string and then off you go for walks together. (One of my young relations adopted a pine cone of the longer kind. She named it Violet and wrote stories about it. I don’t think her intention was to be silly however.) And in case you find you’re forgetting to be silly then try creating a SILLY acrostic that you can stick in a strategic spot as a reminder.

With facts of the silly sort and lots of doodle drawings to jazz up its appearance, this is a book to brighten up those days of doom and gloom especially. “Being silly is a serious art,” I heard someone say on the radio recently: what do you think?