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I put them there as seperate elements in the question. They don't necessarily have to correlate. When I say modern, what i mean is that if you refer to books that were written in the past century, you'll notice that the older books tend to be written in a flowery and overly descriptive, somewhat wangsty manner. The writing style in modern literature differs greatly from say, 70 years ago. I heard someone say before not sure who though.I don't really see how "humorous" and "modern" relate to each other. I mean, there's been humor in writing for almost as long as there's been writing. There's also no correlation between how funny something is and how easily children can understand it. I mean, just look at Yes Minister. Trying to understand a comedy about the British bureaucracy as an American child is pretty freaking hard (I can attest to that).
"These books were written when people had more free time to themselves and just wanted a book that was long enough to fill their free time."
On the subject of books written in the past.
Humourous means that the writer does not write so stiffly when doing narrative.
And the part about children being able to understand it. Try to imagine a child reading Shakespeare to a child reading Harry Potter.