Books like Cinder Edna: A Funny, Spunky Cinderella Story for Kids
By Ellen Jackson
For the kid who'd rather fix the problem than wait around to be rescued, Cinder Edna is the fairy-tale answer they've been waiting for. Wry, energetic, and knowingly funny, with a wink at the fairy-tale formula it's retelling.
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 bored little girl meets a talking potato who claims kids are the truly boring ones, so she sets out to prove him wrong with cartwheels, jokes, and wild imagination.
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.
Two kids stuck inside on a rainy day get an uninvited visitor — a tall cat in a striped hat who promises fun and games while their mother is away.
A very fussy little sister refuses carrots, mashed potatoes, and especially tomatoes — until her clever big brother renames every food on her plate into something wildly more interesting.
After a dragon smashes her castle, burns all her clothes, and kidnaps her fiancé Prince Ronald, a quick-thinking princess sets off wearing only a paper bag to outwit the dragon and win him back.
A boy too poor to buy the princess a birthday gift bakes her a cake instead, then faces trolls, bears, and gypsies while trying to deliver it to the castle in one piece.
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 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.
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 little girl wakes up one Thursday with a full set of antlers growing out of her head, and while the doctor and school principal panic, the cook and kitchen maid find surprising uses for them.
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.
