Posted Friday July 31st 2009 by Natasha Worswick

If you're a teacher, or if one of your children is at school, why not register to attend the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2009? You could win the chance to attend the awards ceremony, and even meet the judges and authors involved.

All schools and pupils under 14 can register to judge one of the two categories - the funniest book for the under-sixes, and the funniest for seven-to-14s. Ten classes will be chosen to help choose the books and attend the awards in November.

The prize is the idea of former Children's Laureate, Michael Rosen. He said: 'People always want to know of funny books for children. There's always a birthday or a Christmas present to be thinking about, there's always a long journey, there are always wet days on holiday. But where are the funny books? They're here! At the Roald Dahl Funny Prize!'

Find out all you need to know about the judges, the books and the prizes. I wish I could enter!

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