Books like 1, 2, 3 to the Zoo
By Eric Carle
An alphabet parade of odd, rhyming animal pairs — like an ape in a cape — walks readers letter by letter from A to Z with a wink and a rhyme.
A big, friendly bear wanders through the woods noticing colors all around him — inviting little ones to spot matching colors of their own on every page.
A little girl wonders whether she's small, so she asks the animals and things she meets on her journey — and discovers that size depends entirely on who's doing the looking.
A parade of rhyming oddballs takes readers from near to far and here to there — a bumpy Wump, a singing Ying, a winking Yink who drinks pink ink — with no plot but plenty of silly counting and rhyming along the way.
All the letters of the alphabet race each other up a coconut tree, chanting chicka chicka boom boom, until so many pile on that the whole tree tumbles them down.
A narwhal accidentally pops his best friend's bubble with his tusk-tooth, then turns Jelly's disappointment into a joyful search for every kind of bubble the ocean has to offer.
A collection of children's own definitions for everyday things — a hole is to dig, a face is so you can make faces — told in the funny, backwards logic only kids have.
A single yellow dot invites the reader to press it, tap it, and tilt the book — and with each turn of the page, the dots multiply, scatter, and change color right before your eyes.
A band of monkeys drums, hums, and dances through a bouncy rhyme, inviting little ones to find their own hands, fingers, and thumbs along the way.
A tiny caterpillar hatches from an egg on a leaf and eats his way through days of the week and an amazing variety of foods, growing bigger as he prepares to become a butterfly.
A picture book imagines what would happen if animals wore clothes — a snake loses its clothes, a billy goat eats them, and a walrus stays soggy in a wet suit that never dries.
