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Include books by the same author29 Myths on the Swinster Pharmacy
Lemony Snicket
A brother and sister wonder about the mysterious establishment across town called the Swinster Pharmacy. A brother and sister wonder about the mysterious establishment in the next town, the Swinster Pharmacy. So investigator Lemony Snicket compiled 29 myths about this bewildering establishment, hoping to help shine some light on this enduring mystery.
Please Try to Remember the First of Octember!
Theo LeSieg · 41 pages
Every wish is fulfilled on the First of Octember.
Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem
Mac Barnett
Never Take a Shark to the Dentist (and Other Things Not to Do)
Judi Barrett · 34 pages
A list of things one should not do with various animals, such as "hold hands with a lobster."
You Don't Want a Unicorn!
Ame Dyckman · 40 pages
"A child wishes for a unicorn without knowing how unruly they are as pets"--
Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich
Adam Rex · 40 pages
Stories in verse about the monster-sized problems Dracula, Wolfman, Bigfoot and other monsters face.
What Do You Do With a Kangaroo?
Mercer Mayer · 45 pages
A little girl copes with a variety of animals who try to take over her things and order her about.
Snappsy the Alligator (Did Not Ask to Be in This Book)
Julie Falatko · 40 pages
The Runaway Dinner
Allan Ahlberg · 40 pages
A young boy named Banjo Cannon always eats a sausage for dinner, until the night that his sausage--and the rest of his meal--runs away.
Robo-Sauce
Adam Rubin
A special sauce turns a boy into a robot, and he then transforms everyone and everything into robots, including the book.
Cowboy and Octopus
Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith · 40 pages
Although Cowboy and Octopus have different opinions about beans and knock-knock jokes, their friendship endures.
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip
George Saunders · 90 pages
Gappers will get your goat. Literally. If You don't brush them off and return them to the ocean, whence they arrive every day, these bright orange, many eyead creatutes will cover your goats, and the goats will stop giving milk. In a village called Frip, goat's milk was the entire economy. Three families lived there — the Romos, the Ronsens, and a little girl named Capable and her widowed fathe
The Scrambled States of America (Books for Young Readers)
Laurie Keller · 40 pages
Shrek
William Steig · 32 pages
Horribly hideous Shrek leaves home and terrifies everyone he encounters in his search for his equally ugly bride.
Chicken Little
Steven Kellogg · 32 pages
Chicken Little and his feathered friends, alarmed that the sky seems to be falling, are easy prey to hungry Foxy Loxy when he poses as a police officer in hopes of tricking them into his truck.
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie
Alison Jackson · 32 pages
A Boy and His Bunny
Sean Bryan
One morning, a boy wakes up with a rabbit on his head and, although his mother is skeptical, he soon discovers that he can be fed, ride a bobsled, and even look cool with a rabbit on his head.
I'm Bored
Michael Ian Black
When a bored girl meets a potato who finds children tedius, she tries to prove him wrong by demonstrating all of the things they can do, from turning cartwheels to using their imaginations.
Not Now, Bernard
David McKee
Bernard's parents pay so little attention to him that they don't even realize when a monster moves in and takes his place.
Squids Will Be Squids
Jon Scieszka · 48 pages
Contemporary fables with tongue-in-cheek morals address such topics as homework, curfews, and television commercials.