Don't Stick Sticks Up Your Nose! by Jerald S. Altman

Books like Don't Stick Sticks Up Your Nose!

By Jerald S. Altman

For the toddler who treats every small object as a potential nostril experiment, this book turns a real safety worry into a rhyme they'll actually remember. Playful, direct, and a little cheeky, with a steady rhyming beat.

In a People House by Dr. Seuss

A spunky mouse invites a curious bird inside for a look around, naming every household object they find — while the people of the house grow less and less thrilled about their visitors.

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss

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.

Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed by Eileen Christelow

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.

Blue Hat, Green Hat by Sandra Boynton

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.

Don't Forget the Bacon! by Pat Hutchins

A young boy heads to town to shop for six farm eggs, a cake for tea, a pound of pears, and bacon, but distractions along the way twist his simple list into something else entirely.

A to Z by Sandra Boynton

An alphabet parade of animals acts out each letter with a matching verb — an aardvark admiring, beavers ballooning, cats cleaning — all the way to a zigzagging zebra.

Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion

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.

A Busy Creature's Day Eating! by Mo Willems

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.

Bathe the Cat by Alice B. McGinty

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.

If You Give a Cat a Cupcake by Laura Joffe Numeroff

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.

A Frog in the Bog by Karma Wilson

A small green frog perched on a log in the middle of a bog eats bug after bug, growing bigger and bigger until an alligator takes notice.