Books like Dan, the Taxi Man
By Eric Ode
For the kid who wants every page read with a beep and a bounce, this cumulative romp turns a simple taxi ride into a rolling parade of sound. Bouncy, noisy, rhythmic, and bright.
When evening falls, a crowd of bats flutters from the rafters to fill a moonlit stadium, watching their own all-stars play a topsy-turvy game of baseball.
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 barnyard full of animals kicks up a rollicking square dance, with a fiddle-playing cow calling the moves as pigs, sheep, and horses twirl across the pages.
A friendly little pick-up truck greets farm animals along a country road, beeping and honking hello — until he gets stuck in the muck and needs his animal friends to push him out.
A lyrical journey through the history of Black music in America, from spirituals and blues to jazz, soul, and hip-hop, packed with over 80 references to real artists like Billie Holiday and Kendrick Lamar.
A little brown bird gets tired of chirping the same old song as every other bird, dog, and cat in the neighborhood, so she invents a brand-new sound — and it spreads.
A family of kids and babies fills the house with jazz — humming, drumming, tapping piano keys, and swaying to a beat that carries them all the way to sleep.
A rambunctious crew of dinosaurs shakes tails and stomps feet through a string of silly dance moves — the Shimmy Shimmy Shake, the Quivery Quake, and a rollicking Cha Cha Cha.
A collection of poems rides the rails through every kind of train imaginable — bullet, sleeper, underground, zoo — celebrating the sound, speed, and grit of train travel one poem at a time.
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.
