Books like Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride
By Marjorie Priceman
For the kid who's obsessed with firsts and inventions, this turns a real (mostly) historical moment into a gloriously silly countdown to liftoff. Playful, breathless, and giddy with the thrill of watching history almost go wrong.
Six classic fairy tales get turned inside out in rhyme, as Cinderella, Snow-White, Little Red Riding Hood and others swap their storybook endings for wickedly unexpected ones.
A trickster raven sets out to steal light from Sky Chief and give it to a world living in darkness, risking discovery to pull off his boldest transformation yet.
A little brown bird gets tired of chirping the same old song as every other bird, dog, and cat in the neighborhood, so she invents a brand-new sound — and it spreads.
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 young witch's child faces the Blue Witch, who threatens to turn her into a turtle unless she comes along — but Dorrie fights back with reducing powder and shrinks the villain down to size.
A man and his little dog head out early one winter morning to learn how to ski, but a run-in with a curious moose sends them flying through the air and hanging above a snowy abyss.
A young dreamer who learns to read from her mother's tombstone runs away with a poet at sixteen, then on a stormy night in Switzerland invents a monster story that becomes Frankenstein.
A child imagines an entire day as a horse — galloping through familiar settings, wondering if they'd fit in their clothes, and whether a little sister would get a ride.
A young princess falls ill and declares she'll only get better if she has the moon, sending the king's wisest advisors scrambling until the court jester finds an answer no one else thought to try.
A gang of robbers plots to steal every toy in London on Christmas Eve, but brave Officer Pugh springs into action to catch them — all except one crafty escapee, Grandma Swagg.
Two kids stuck inside on a rainy day get an uninvited visitor — a tall cat in a striped hat who promises fun and games while their mother is away.
