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I Want My Hat Back

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The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs

Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith · 32 pages

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The Twits

Roald Dahl · 96 pages

The misadventures of two terrible old people who enjoy playing nasty tricks and are finally outwitted by a family of monkeys.

Dark ComedyTalking AnimalsChildren'sAbsurdist Humor
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If You Give a Moose a Muffin

Laura Joffe Numeroff · 32 pages

Chaos can ensue if you give a moose a muffin and start him on a cycle of urgent requests.

Talking AnimalsIllustrated BookChildren'sAbsurdist Humor
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Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!

Mo Willems · 38 pages

No matter how hard he pleads and begs, the pigeon is not supposed to drive the bus while the driver is away, but pigeon tries every persuasive trick a young child knows to get you to say "Yes."

Talking AnimalsIllustrated BookChildren'sAbsurdist Humor
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The Cat in the Hat

Dr. Seuss · 61 pages

Two children sitting at home on a rainy day are visited by the Cat in the Hat, who shows them some tricks and games. Includes a Latin-English glossary and a note on the verse form and rhythm.

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Where the Sidewalk Ends

Shel Silverstein · 176 pages

If you are a dreamer, come in, If you are a dreamer, A wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, A magic bean buyer... Come in ... for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. You'll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wa

Illustrated BookChildren'sAbsurdist HumorLighthearted
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Go, Dog. Go!

P.D. Eastman · 64 pages

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Rhyming Dust Bunnies

Jan Thomas

As three dust bunnies, Ed, Ned, and Ted, are demonstrating how much they love to rhyme, a fourth, Bob, is trying to warn them of approaching danger.

Illustrated BookAbsurdist HumorChildren'sTalking Animals
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Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type

Doreen Cronin · 32 pages

When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want.

Illustrated BookChildren'sAbsurdist HumorTalking Animals
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The Berenstains' B Book (Bright & Early Books)

Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain · 64 pages

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Carnivores

Aaron Reynolds

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Go the Fuck to Sleep

Adam Mansbach · 32 pages

Dark ComedyIllustrated BookChildren'sAbsurdist Humor
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The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales

Jon Scieszka · 54 pages

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales is the ultimate in fractured fairy tales. Not only do the characters create their own stories, they also design the structure of the book itself. Classic fairy tales are deconstructed and rewritten with different but recognizable names, such as The Princess and the Bowling Ball, The Really Ugly Duckling, The Tortoise and the Hair and Chicken Lick

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Five Little Monkeys Jumping On The Bed

Eileen Christelow · 32 pages

A counting book in which one by one the little monkeys jump on the bed only to fall off and bump their heads.

Talking AnimalsIllustrated BookChildren'sLighthearted
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Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary

David Sedaris · 192 pages

If animals were more like us, if mice kept pets and toads could cuss, if dogs had wives and chipmunks dated, sheep sat still and meditated, then in the forest, field, and dairy you might find this bestiary, read by storks, by rats and kitties, skimmed by cows with milk-stained titties. "I found the book to be most droll," might quip the bear, the owl, the mole. Others, though, would be more coarse

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Curious George

H.A. Rey · 55 pages

George is an African monkey who has come to America with his friend The Man in The Yellow Hat. They get into all sort of trouble in this 1946 Childrens' novel.

Talking AnimalsIllustrated BookChildren'sLighthearted
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The Poky Little Puppy

Janette Sebring Lowrey

*Five little puppies dug a hole under the fence and went for a walk in the wide, wide world. . . .* *The Poky Little Puppy* was one of the original twelve Little Golden Books published in 1942, and went on to become the bestselling picture book of all time. The story of a curious puppy, who digs holes under fences and who has to go to bed without any strawberry shortcake, has delighted families f

Talking AnimalsIllustrated BookChildren'sLighthearted
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Battle Bunny

Jon Scieszka, Mac Barnett

Illustrated BookChildren'sAbsurdist HumorTalking Animals
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Beatrix Potter · 58 pages

One of the best known and loved children's stories is the story of naughty Peter Rabbit and his misadventures as he is chased around a garden.

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Talking AnimalsChildren'sIllustrated BookLighthearted
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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Judi Barrett · 32 pages

Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow where it rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers--until the weather takes a turn for the worse.

Illustrated BookChildren'sAbsurdist HumorLighthearted
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