Books like Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late!
By Mo Willems
For the kid who fights bedtime with every trick in the book, this one hands them the ultimate partner in crime. Silly, sly, and a little bit rebellious
When the bus driver steps away and puts a young reader in charge, a persistent pigeon begs, bargains, and pleads for one thing: a turn behind the wheel.
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 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 burglar creeps down the street, climbs the wall, and slips through the window on another night of stealing — until someone burgles him right back.
A child gets ten minutes to get ready for bed while a growing crowd of hamster tourists pours through the front door for a wild, wordless-countdown tour of the house.
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.
Twin sisters who look alike but never think alike share six funny stories about their everyday adventures, proving that being silly together is its own kind of fun.
Five little monkeys jump on the bed after saying goodnight to Mama — and one by one, they fall off, bump their heads, and get a call to the doctor.
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 dog who hates baths buries the scrubbing brush and runs off for a day of adventure, getting so filthy that his own family no longer recognizes him.
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 power-hungry cat with a red marker hijacks his own picture book, scribbling over the author's story until she fights back by auditioning other animals to replace him.
