Books like Ganesha's Sweet Tooth
By Sanjay Patel
For the kid obsessed with sweets and the kid who's ever broken something they loved, watching Ganesha turn a snapped tusk into something worthwhile lands close to home. Bright, bold, funny, and a little irreverent, with warmth underneath the humor.
An elderly woman despises the night so fiercely she tries to destroy it — burning it, drowning it, even feeding it to her hounds — in a battle she cannot win.
In a tiny town where every meal falls from the sky, life is delicious until the food weather turns dangerous, growing bigger and wilder until the townspeople fear for their safety.
A young girl visits her eccentric grandfather, where nothing is normal — tea comes in flower pots, and cleaning the house means mowing the rug.
A little girl wakes up one Thursday with a full set of antlers growing out of her head, and while the doctor and school principal panic, the cook and kitchen maid find surprising uses for them.
A witch famous throughout Russia for eating children is secretly a lonely old woman who longs for a grandchild, so she disguises herself as a village babushka to find one.
The messiest monster in Booville and her fussiest, cleanest neighbor argue constantly — until Harry Beastie's wild Halloween party throws these two feuding creatures together.
Nineteen comic poems peek into the everyday headaches of famous monsters — Frankenstein hunts for lunch fixings, Wolfman needs housekeeping tips, and Dracula could really use a toothbrush.
A picture book imagines what would happen if animals wore clothes — a snake loses its clothes, a billy goat eats them, and a walrus stays soggy in a wet suit that never dries.
A grandmother with a mountain of yarn and too many grandchildren shouts 'LEAVE ME ALONE!' and sets off past bears, goats, and aliens — all the way to the moon — just to finish her knitting in peace.
A girl and her mummy are just sitting down to tea when the doorbell rings, and a big furry, stripy tiger walks in and eats and drinks everything in the house.
On a goat farm, a girl named Carla and her father Hector face a mystery when a goat turns up flat as a pancake — the legendary work of El Chupacabras, the fearsome goatsucker.
A boy imagines a very special house — one built entirely from his own head — where a turtle, a dead mouse, and an old lion can all move in, and nobody ever says stop.
