Books like I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!
By Karen Beaumont
For the kid who thinks the walls, the dog, and their own toes are all fair game for a paintbrush, this book says yes to the mess. Bouncy, gleeful, a little defiant, and full of rhythm.
A marker-obsessed girl talks her mom into buying washable markers, then scented ones, then five super-indelible never-come-off markers — and colors herself from head to toe.
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 parade of rhyming oddballs takes readers from near to far and here to there — a bumpy Wump, a singing Ying, a winking Yink who drinks pink ink — with no plot but plenty of silly counting and rhyming along the way.
A gardener finally grows the vegetable patch of his dreams, but three hungry bunnies keep sneaking in every night — so he builds fence after fence to outsmart them.
A Siamese kitten with an overactive imagination transforms into El Skippito, a mask-and-cape sword-fighter, ready to take on banditos and a bad bumble-beeto to save the day.
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.
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.
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 cat gets a cupcake and asks for sprinkles to go with it, setting off a chain of requests and small messes that just keeps looping back on itself.
A boy welcomes a hungry moose with a muffin, but one muffin leads to jam, then a trip to the store for more mix, spinning into one favor after another.
A rhyming romp through prehistoric history reveals underpants-loving dinosaurs, including a strutting T. rex, whose obsession sparked the legendary Underpants War that really wiped them out.
A boy named Jeremy Jacob joins Braid Beard's pirate crew for buried treasure and sea chanteys, gleefully ditching manners and bedtime — until he learns what pirates don't have.
