Books like Happy Hippo, Angry Duck
By Sandra Boynton
For the toddler who's already got big feelings and no words for them yet, this book hands over a whole animal cast to help. Silly, bouncy, and full of permission to make a face and mean it.
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.
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 worried mother tells her dog George to bark, but out comes a meow, then an oink — so she takes him to the vet to find out what's really going on inside him.
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 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.
An alligator family romps through the alphabet from A to Z, entertaining elephants, imitating ice cream, and throwing tantrums along the way in one letter-by-letter jamboree.
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.
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 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.
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.
Twenty-three rowdy rhyming poems tackle everything from bullying baseball coaches to annoying little brothers, poking fun at the everyday chaos of modern family life.
