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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Magic Hat
Mem Fox · 32 pages
A wizard's hat blows into town, changing people into different animals when it lands on their heads.
Babushka's Doll
Patricia Polacco · 33 pages
A little girl gets a doll that turns out to be twice as rambunctious as her owner.
Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures with the Family Lazardo
William Joyce · 32 pages
While vacationing in Africa, the Lazardo family finds and brings back to America a friendly dinosaur that becomes the talk of the town.
Are We There Yet?
Dan Santat · 40 pages
Let's face it: everyone knows that car rides can be boring. And when things get boring, time slows down. In this book, a boy feels time slowing down so much that it starts going backward--into the time of pirates! Of princesses! Of dinosaurs! The boy was just trying to get to his grandmother's birthday party, but instead he's traveling through Ancient Egypt and rubbing shoulders with Ben Franklin.
Mommy?
Maurice Sendak, Arthur Yorinks
In search of his mother a young boy encounters a variety of monsters, each in its own pop-up scene.
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.
The Wonderful Pigs of Jillian Jiggs
Phoebe Gilman · 40 pages
I Know a Wee Piggy
Kim Norman
A cumulative, rhyming tale of an ordinary pig who leaps out of his boy's arms at a state fair and wallows in color after color, turning himself into a work of art.
Cinderella Skeleton
Robert D. San Souci · 32 pages
This book is a rhyming retelling of the story of a young woman who finds her prince at a Halloween ball despite the efforts of her wicked stepmother. The main characters are skeletons. Meet Cinderella Skeleton, as sweetly foul as only a ghoul can be. Poor Cinderella has no one to help her hang the cobwebs and arrange dead flowers -- certainly not her evil stepsisters. But the Halloween Ball is jus
The Little Red Cat Who Ran Away and Learned His ABC's
Patrick McDonnell
Bestselling and award-winning artist Patrick McDonnell uses the ABC's to tell a hilarious, high-energy alphabetical adventure. It starts with an ALLIGATOR and a BEAR chasing a CAT. When a DRAGON (and a chicken and an egg!) join in pursuit, things start to get REALLY interesting. A wild and wacky chase through snow and ice, and to jungles and over mountaintops, leads the whole crew to a wonderful r
By Mouse and Frog
Deborah Freedman
"Mouse has one idea about what a book should be and how to tell a story. Frog has another. What happens when these two very different friends try to create a book together?"--
I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories
Dr. Seuss · 64 pages
Three stories in verse: "I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today," "King Looie Katz, " and "The Glunk That Got Thunk."
Froodle
Antoinette Portis
One day, amidst the usual chirps, tweets, and caws, a little brown bird decides to try singing a new song and sets off an interesting reaction.
The Whale in My Swimming Pool
Joyce Wan · 32 pages
A young boy discovers a whale in his pool and tries everything he can think of to get it out. When a little boy discovers a whale in his pool, he tries everything he can think of to get it out, eventually coming up with the perfect solution to the problem.
I'm a Manatee
John Lithgow · 32 pages
A boy imagines that he is a manatee, sprinkling seaweed on his raisin bran-atee and dignifying his watery domain with his wit, sophistication, and urbanity.
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
Simms Taback · 36 pages
365 Penguins
Jean-Luc Fromental · 48 pages
When a box containing a penguin arrives anonymously on New Year's Day, a family of four is puzzled, but as they continue to receive one penguin each day their problems--and food budget, and storage issues--are multiplied.
The Book with No Pictures
B.J. Novak · 48 pages
This innovative and wildly funny audiobook by award-winning humorist/actor B.J. Novak will turn any listener into a comedian. You might think a book with no pictures seems boring and serious. Except . . . here’s how books work. Everything written on the page has to be said by the person reading it aloud. Even if the words say . . . BLORK. Or BLUURF. Even if the words are a preposterous song ab
The Real Mother Goose
Blanche Fisher Wright · 128 pages
An illustrated collection of popular nursery rhymes, reprinted from the 1916 original.
The Lady with the Alligator Purse
Nadine Bernard Westcott
A familiar melody with uproariously funny new lyrics are presented in this picture book that includes music, stories, and games. Full color.
Shrek
William Steig · 32 pages
Horribly hideous Shrek leaves home and terrifies everyone he encounters in his search for his equally ugly bride.
How This Book Was Made
Mac Barnett · 42 pages
Presents the journey of a book's creation, from its initial writing and illustrating to its misadventures with pirates and an angry tiger.
Bumble-Ardy
Maurice Sendak · 40 pages
Since the publication of his classic Outside Over There in 1981, Maurice Sendak's book illustrations have focused on interpreting the texts of such authors as James Marshall, Tony Kushner, Wilhelm Grimm, Ruth Krauss, Herman Melville, and Mother Goose. And beginning in 1980, with his sets and costumes for The Magic Flute, Sendak launched a busy second career as the designer of stage productions of