Hooray for Fish by Lucy Cousins

Books like Hooray for Fish

By Lucy Cousins

For toddlers who point at every picture and want a word for it, this book turns the undersea world into a parade of shapes, colors, and moods to name. Bright, bouncy, and playful, with a singsong rhythm made for pointing and repeating.

Hooray for Birds! by Lucy Cousins

A bright, rhyming romp through a day in the life of birds — from the rooster's dawn crow to the owl's nighttime call — inviting little ones to cheep and tweet along.

A House is a House for Me by Mary Ann Hoberman

A rhyming romp through everything that counts as a house — anthills, dog kennels, corn husks, pea pods — and eventually the surprising idea that a shoe, a mirror, even a word, might have a house too.

Color Zoo by Lois Ehlert

Bold die-cut shapes stack and overlap page after page, transforming circles, squares, and triangles into nine recognizable zoo animal faces right before your eyes.

Oh My Oh My Oh Dinosaurs!: A Book of Opposites by Sandra Boynton

A parade of dinosaurs shows off opposites — big and tiny, plump and lean, early and later — while sunbathing, dancing, painting, and packing into an elevator.

Bear Sees Colors by Karma Wilson

A big, friendly bear wanders through the woods noticing colors all around him — inviting little ones to spot matching colors of their own on every page.

Dinosaurumpus! by Tony Mitton

Dinosaurs of every shape and size stomp, wiggle, and boogie their way to a swampy clearing, gathering for one huge, thundering dance party.

Bats at the Ballgame by Brian Lies

When evening falls, a crowd of bats flutters from the rafters to fill a moonlit stadium, watching their own all-stars play a topsy-turvy game of baseball.

In the Tall, Tall Grass by Denise Fleming

A fuzzy caterpillar inches through the tall grass from sunny afternoon to firefly-lit night, crunching and munching past bunnies, ants, and bees along the way.

Red Light, Green Light by Anastasia Suen

A little boy turns his living room into a bustling traffic world, using records as rotaries, shoe boxes as highway ramps, and crayons as lane markers to make his cars stop and go.

Rumble in the Jungle by Giles Andreae

A rhyming tour through the jungle introduces elephants, tigers, giraffes, hippos, leopards, and chimpanzees, each with their own playful verse and a hidden animal to spot on every page.

Green by Laura Vaccaro Seeger

A rhyming picture book moves through the many shades of green — forest green, lime green, firefly green, sea green — using die-cut pages that turn one green into another before your eyes.