"We're having our first child next year, so until then I can only go on what I read when I was young. I always liked pictures just as much as words, so most of the below are a mix of the two. They aren't in any order, and some of them are more smile-funny than laugh-out-loud, but sometimes that's the more satisfying of the two."

Jim Smith won this year's Roald Dahl funny prize for I Am Still Not a Loser, the second book in his Barry Loser series, featuring the trials and tribulations of a big-nosed schoolboy and his best friend Bunky.

1. Little Nicolas by Rene Goscinny and Jean-Jacques Sempe

My flatmate, who inspired Barry Loser's best friend Bunky in my books, bought me an English translation when they came out a few years ago. I'd always loved Sempe's illustrations - he's a master at portraying an expression with just a few lines. But the voice of Nicolas is lovely too - really energetic.

2. Halloween by Jerry Seinfeld

This is one of Jerry Seinfeld's standup routines turned into a kids' book. It really gets the feeling of excitement when you're a kid and is full of his brilliant observations.

3. Mrs Wobble the Waitress by Allan and Janet Ahlberg

I had the whole Happy Families collection when I was a kid, but this is the one I remember best. Janet Ahlberg's drawings are crammed with details but the books also have a lot of white space, which I love.

4. Shrek by William Steig

This is the original picture book that inspired the films. Steig was a New Yorker cartoonist whose style started out very traditional and ended up really loose and modern. Shrek's prickly pear nose is an early precursor to Barry Loser's enormous shnozzle.

5. Are you there God? It's me, Margaret by Judy Blume

I used to steal my older sister's Just Seventeen magazines, just to read the problem pages. It was the same with this book - a funny way to find more out about girls.

6. Inspector Mouse by Bernard Stone and Ralph Steadman

I'm not even sure if this book had a particularly funny story. It was the illustrations by my childhood hero Ralph Steadman that did it for me. Low-life gangster rats skulking around in sleazy bars - there was something really adult and sophisticated about them but goofy and stupid at the same time.

7. Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle

I've never been that bothered about the actual words in Molesworth books either, but Ronald Searle's amazing pen and ink drawings are incredible. How could a kid not love them?

8. Father Christmas by Raymond Briggs

I love Raymond Briggs's grumpy Father Christmas - he's based on Briggs's own father, who was a milkman. I think this was the real Father Christmas for me when I was a kid. The one where he goes on holiday and eats snails then gets sick is hilarious.

9. George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake

I still have my childhood copy of this - red cover with Quentin Blake's illustration sitting in a big black-outlined box in the middle. I remember using a whole bottle of my mum's Oil of Ulay (Olay) making my own concoction.

10. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ by Sue Townsend

Still one of the funniest books I've ever read. The cover on my copy was the original coloured pencil illustration of the Noddy toothbrush in a glass next to a shaving brush and razor. I have lots of visual memories from it - his red socks and Noddy wallpaper, painted over with black.