Books like Be Nice to Spiders
By Margaret Bloy Graham
For the kid who roots for the overlooked, tiny creature nobody else notices — this one gives a spider the whole spotlight. Gentle, funny, and full of zoo-animal charm.
Give a hungry little mouse a cookie and he'll ask for milk, then a mirror, then scissors — one small request tumbling into the next until the whole day spins out of control.
A boy who loves animals introduces his fifteen pets one by one — and names almost every single one of them Bob, except for one very formally named turtle.
A little girl gives a pig a pancake, and one request leads to another — syrup, then a bubble bath — spinning into a chain of demands that circles right back to where it started.
A boy named Buzz searches for something to catch for the Amazing Pet Show, and a hungry fly follows a smell — and the two strike up a friendship no one expects.
A witch and her cat fly happily on a broomstick until the wind blows away her hat, bow, and wand — and the animals who return them all want a ride, leaving no room to spare when a hungry dragon attacks.
A hungry lion chases a different animal every day of the week — until a family of ten fat rabbits teaches him to make carrot stew instead of eating them.
A wombat records a week of eating, sleeping, and digging holes — all while patiently training the new human neighbors to hand over carrots on command.
A beloved dinosaur bakes cookies, helps old ladies cross the street, and plays with kids in town — while one boy, Reginald Von Hoobie-Doobie, insists she's scientifically extinct and shouldn't exist at all.
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.
Under the sea, every creature has their thing — Seahorse hides, Pufferfish puffs, and Crab simply bakes cakes — until a sudden disaster strikes and Crab's small act of kindness becomes exactly what the community needs.
A clever mouse walks through the deep dark wood, escaping hungry predators by inventing a scary monster called the gruffalo — then discovers the gruffalo is real.
A mistreated young girl is helped by her blue fairy godmother so she can attend the palace ball, where an endearing, somewhat overweight Prince Charming awaits.
