Books like Big Words for Little People
By Jamie Lee Curtis
For the kid who's proud to know a big word and loves showing off new vocabulary, this book turns grown-up language into something exciting instead of intimidating. Playful, warm, and a little zany, with the energy of a big noisy family talking over each other.
Seven soldiers each add one part to a magnificent cannon in this cumulative folk song, until Drummer Hoff arrives to fire it off with a satisfying bang.
Five little monkeys jump on the bed after saying goodnight to Mama — and one by one, they fall off, bump their heads, and get a call to the doctor.
A mischievous family cat dodges bath time by scrambling Dad's chore list, so the family ends up mowing the floor, vacuuming the lawn, and mopping the baby instead of doing what they meant to.
The numbers 1 through 100 race each other up an apple tree in a rhyming chant, piling higher and higher until bumblebees threaten trouble at the top.
A classroom full of kids takes advantage of their sweet, mild teacher until she vanishes and a terrifyingly strict substitute named Viola Swamp shows up in her place.
A cheerful taxi driver named Dan cruises through town picking up a band member by member, each new passenger adding fresh sounds and colors to the growing crowd inside his cab.
Bored with ordinary weather, a king orders his royal magicians to invent something new to fall from the sky — and gets a sticky green goo called Oobleck that soon overwhelms his entire kingdom.
A child gets ten minutes to get ready for bed while a growing crowd of hamster tourists pours through the front door for a wild, wordless-countdown tour of the house.
A crocodile and his bird friend travel to the United States to rescue a kidnapped cousin taken to an Exotic Animal Farm — and along the way, the bird himself gets captured.
A gang of robbers plots to steal every toy in London on Christmas Eve, but brave Officer Pugh springs into action to catch them — all except one crafty escapee, Grandma Swagg.
