Books like How to Code a Rollercoaster
By Josh Funk
For the kid who lines up toys by rule and loves finding the pattern in everything, this turns a day at the amusement park into a puzzle to solve. Bright, busy, and puzzle-happy, with the buzz of a carnival day.
A collection of children's own definitions for everyday things — a hole is to dig, a face is so you can make faces — told in the funny, backwards logic only kids have.
The Cat in the Hat whisks Sally and Dick on a rhyming tour of outer space, unpacking facts about the sun, moon, planets, and astronauts along the way.
A girl surrounded by books she hates tries to rescue her cat Max from a towering, wobbling stack — and when the books crash down, characters spill right out into her room.
Three pigs build their familiar houses of straw, sticks, and bricks, but when the wolf huffs one pig right out of the story's pages, all three escape into a wild landscape of other tales entirely.
An alphabet book set inside a lavish old Victorian mansion, where animals from A to Z turn up in surprising rooms — an elephant playing trains in the ballroom, a zebra soaking in the bathtub.
A student gets stuck with a science curse after his teacher claims poetry is everywhere in science, and suddenly every rhyme in his head turns into a poem about amoebas, black holes, or the food chain.
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 little girl overhears everyday adult expressions and pictures them literally, imagining a king who rains from the sky and a foot prince leaving tracks in the snow.
A young boy imagines that dinosaurs never disappeared, picturing them back in the world doing helpful, everyday jobs for people instead of roaming wild.
All the letters of the alphabet race each other up a coconut tree, chanting chicka chicka boom boom, until so many pile on that the whole tree tumbles them down.
A determined bunny stacks cardboard boxes into an imaginary city, insisting on doing it solo — until building alone starts to feel like something's missing.
An elephant named Horace turns eleven and throws a costume party for his exotically dressed animal friends, but when it's time for the feast, someone has already eaten it all.
