Books like Frog and Fly
By Jeff Mack
For the kid who loves a good rivalry and cheers for the little guy, Frog and Fly is a six-round comedy match in picture-book form. Silly, snappy, comic-strip energy with a running joke that keeps building.
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.
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.
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.
Dragons love tacos more than anything, so a party planner throws them a giant taco party — but forgets that spicy salsa turns dragons into fire-breathing disasters.
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 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 boy welcomes a hungry moose with a muffin, but one muffin leads to jam, then a trip to the store for more mix, spinning into one favor after another.
A paint-happy kid gets banned from painting after covering everything from ceiling to floor, then finds a wildly funny way to keep creating anyway — using every color on hand.
A boy and his pet fly play hide-and-seek, but when Fly Guy hides in the garbage can, the garbage truck hauls him off to the dump — where zillions of flies look just like him.
Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn and start leaving him notes with demands — and when he refuses, the whole farm goes on strike.
A Siamese kitten with an overactive imagination transforms into El Skippito, a mask-and-cape sword-fighter, ready to take on banditos and a bad bumble-beeto to save the day.
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.
