Books like Curious George Rides a Bike
By H.A. Rey
For the kid who can't resist doing the one thing they were just told not to do, George's bike ride feels like watching their own impulses play out on the page. Playful, meandering, gently chaotic — classic Rey warmth with a wheelie or two.
A relentlessly cheerful stranger follows a grumpy skeptic everywhere, asking him to try green eggs and ham in a box, on a train, in the rain — anywhere, everywhere.
A collection of children's own definitions for everyday things — a hole is to dig, a face is so you can make faces — told in the funny, backwards logic only kids have.
The Cat in the Hat whisks Sally and Dick on a rhyming tour of outer space, unpacking facts about the sun, moon, planets, and astronauts along the way.
All the letters of the alphabet race each other up a coconut tree, chanting chicka chicka boom boom, until so many pile on that the whole tree tumbles them down.
A little boy discovers a bucketful of old dinosaurs in his Grandma's attic, cleans them up, learns each one's proper name, and takes them everywhere — until he leaves them behind on a train.
A precocious girl wakes early every Monday, drags her chair down the hallway past her sleepy family, and waits outside for the one honking arrival she's been looking forward to all week.
A grumbly, hardworking Father Christmas finally gets his well-earned break, jetting off to France, Scotland, and Las Vegas in search of the perfect holiday.
A near-sighted little armadillo spots a shiny red boot and mistakes it for another armadillo, leaving his mother and three brothers to follow it straight toward a Texas rodeo.
A child imagines an entire day as a horse — galloping through familiar settings, wondering if they'd fit in their clothes, and whether a little sister would get a ride.
A worried mother dog searches her house for her puppy Spot, lifting flaps to check behind doors, inside the piano, and under the stairs — finding a surprising animal each time.
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.
