Books like Chester's Back!
By Mélanie Watt
For the kid who insists on rewriting bedtime stories their own way, Chester's ego trip will feel awfully familiar. Silly, bickering, meta and mischievous, with a wink at the reader on every page.
An author sits down to write a story about a mouse in a house, but her cat Chester keeps grabbing a red marker to rewrite the pages his way — turning the book into a battle over who's really in charge.
A Siamese kitten with an overactive imagination transforms into El Skippito, a mask-and-cape sword-fighter, ready to take on banditos and a bad bumble-beeto to save the day.
A restless farm duck decides he's done taking orders and campaigns his way from the barnyard all the way to the presidency, one election at a time.
A cat gets a cupcake and asks for sprinkles to go with it, setting off a chain of requests and small messes that just keeps looping back on itself.
A book with no pictures forces whoever reads it aloud to say every ridiculous word on the page — including BLORK, BLUURF, and a song about eating ants for breakfast.
A gadget-wielding secret agent librarian faces down an evil genius bent on destroying every book on the planet, armed with nothing but her wits and always, somehow, the right book for the moment.
A paint-happy kid gets banned from painting after covering everything from ceiling to floor, then finds a wildly funny way to keep creating anyway — using every color on hand.
A sound-making wonder named Mr. Brown moos like a cow, hoos like an owl, buzzes like a bee, and even chews gum like a grum-grumming hippo, daring readers to make every noise right along with him.
Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn and start leaving him notes with demands — and when he refuses, the whole farm goes on strike.
A self-conscious giraffe named Edward hates his long, bendy neck and tries every trick he can think of to hide it — until a slow-moving turtle helps him see it differently.
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.
A scene-stealing cat named Chester hijacks his own picture book, swiping the author's supplies and insisting he can write a better story than she can — with mixed results.
