I enjoyed reading these stories to Mudcatter, 'indieman' probably more than he enjoyed having them read to him...

Sideways Stories from Wayside School, and Wayside School is Falling Down, by Louis Sachar. I just now saw that there is another by him called, Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger.

During one particularly weird and funny part of one of these books (I think it was the part about the dead rat that was disguised as a student wearing numerous layers of rain gear), I was laughing so uncontrolably I had to stop reading for a while.