Books like Dog
By Matthew Van Fleet
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.
Three animals model colorful hats, shirts, and pants with calm confidence, while a fumbling turkey gets dressed all wrong, turning every page into a game of spotting the mistake.
A parade of rhyming oddballs takes readers from near to far and here to there — a bumpy Wump, a singing Ying, a winking Yink who drinks pink ink — with no plot but plenty of silly counting and rhyming along the way.
A beachful of bare-bellied hippos celebrates the one thing they all have in common, with one tiny baby hippo whose entire vocabulary is BEE BO.
A hungry creature works its way through a snack-filled alphabet, eating everything in sight from A to P before regret sets in — and a resolution to change follows.
A man and his dog set out in a rowboat with lunch for three, only to get launched airborne when a playful whale surfaces right beneath them.
A hungry frog and a clever fly face off in six short comic-style chapters, with frog always seeming to win — until fly gets the last word.
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.
Two friends imagine what kind of dogs they'd be — one dreams up being a big dog, the other little — as their game of pretend becomes a way of working out who gets to decide what happens next.
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.
Enormous dinosaurs head off to school just like any kid — riding the bus, reading books, and romping on the playground with classmates who happen to be the size of a Ceratosaurus.
