Books like Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport
By Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
For the kid who insists their whole life will fall apart over one big change, this book turns that exact panic into something you can laugh at together. Funny, anxious, wry, and reassuring — a worrier's imagination played for laughs.
A boy leaving New York City and a girl leaving Mexico City each face the same nervous questions about their move — will they make friends, what will they eat, where will they play?
A hen gets bonked on the head by something falling from above and becomes convinced the sky is falling, setting off a chain reaction of panic among her farmyard friends.
A folk hero grows so fast he bursts through the porch roof, then grows into a legend — swinging two sledgehammers to build roads and racing a steam drill through a mountain.
A girl named Mei Mei breaks her ama's favorite cup and, terrified of the consequences, lets the family cat take the blame — until the guilt becomes impossible to bear.
A girl named Julie notices the furniture moving into her new neighbor's house is enormous, and starts to wonder whether her new friend David's father might actually be a giant.
A beloved family dog named Hally Tosis has breath so terrible her family wants to give her away, so the kids try every trick they can think of to fix her putrid panting before it's too late.
A young girl is separated from her mother at the last moment and must sail to America alone, only to discover the address for her family in New York has smudged into illegible ink.
Five mischievous lads named John, Paul, George, Ben, and the rarely-around Tom keep getting into trouble for taking a few too many liberties — until they help secure America's freedom.
A boy who loves the playground keeps running into Sammy, a boy who calls himself King and threatens to bury him, cage him with bears, or tie him to the slide — so his dad helps him figure out what to do.
A rhyming picture book lists all the things boys and girls are supposed to like — football, fairy songs, kittens, ballet — then flips each expectation with three cheerful words: except when they don't.
A dressmaker's daughter sets out alone through a fierce snowstorm to deliver a duchess's ball gown, battling howling wind and deep drifts to complete her mother's errand.
A young dinosaur catches the flu and has to visit the doctor, at first acting cranky and scared before learning that juice, rest, and following the doctor's advice are the way to feel better.
