Books like Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem
By Mac Barnett
For the kid who tests every limit and needs to hear the wildest possible version of 'be careful what you wish for,' Billy Twitters is the cautionary tale that actually gets laughs instead of eye-rolls. Deadpan, escalating, and gleefully over-the-top.
A giant squid swims through the ocean bragging that he's bigger than the shrimp, the crab, and the clams — until something much, much bigger shows up.
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 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 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.
A little pea faces every kid's nightmare in reverse: his parents won't let him have his beloved vegetables for dessert until he finishes five pieces of candy for dinner.
A little old lady complains that her house is too small, so a wise old man tells her to bring in the hen, goat, pig, and cow one by one — with noisy, crowded results.
A boy imagines a very special house — one built entirely from his own head — where a turtle, a dead mouse, and an old lion can all move in, and nobody ever says stop.
A boastful giant squid declares himself the best artist in the ocean, squirting ink everywhere to create his masterpiece — but his fellow fish may not share his enthusiasm.
A worm records his everyday life in diary entries — playing with friends, going to school, and never having to take a bath — while figuring out the ups and downs of being small in a very big world.
A dog who hates baths buries the scrubbing brush and runs off for a day of adventure, getting so filthy that his own family no longer recognizes him.
On a goat farm, a girl named Carla and her father Hector face a mystery when a goat turns up flat as a pancake — the legendary work of El Chupacabras, the fearsome goatsucker.
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.
